17.9.10

The city we live in is an awesome place. Filled with insanely cool boutiques down cobbled side streets. One of our favourite tiny shopping streets is Margaret Buildings, about 30 seconds away from our flat. There's a tasty Italian bistro, a couple of fancy clothes stores, a shop packed with very sparkly vintage jewellery and a launderette. Wait, scrap that last one, it doesn't really sell the place, does it? Plus a new vintage store is in the midst of opening.

Ben and I walk down this little street a least once a week. Annoyingly it's always after closing time. There's been one shop in particular i've been dying to pop into ever since it opened and that's Hansel und Gretel. Selling authentic alpine pieces, this is a shop that rocks and after I managed to finish work a bit early this afternoon I knew exactly where I was heading.

Firstly it has an all-year-round Christmas section downstairs. So that instantly won me over. And a strudel bar. Cool, eh. Plus it sells the softest Alpaca wool in the most fantastic colours and some pretty fancy knitting needles too. Oh man. This is the perfect shop for me and my new favourite. I bought my grandparents this insane decoration depicting the nativity as part of their Christmas present and a crazy vintage 1950s car decoration for my Dad, who used to own one just like it. An actual full-size one I mean. And I got another little anniversary present for B. I love how unique everything was, how amazing this shop looks inside and how darn reasonable it is to boot.


Then I headed to our favourite local deli for a couple of slices of yummy ham, a mini ham and chicken pie (B loves those pies) and a bottle of vintage cider for that coolio husband of mine. Some goodly Friday finds me thinks.


Hope you manage to get your hands on some equally tasty treats this weekend lovely people xxx

19 comments:

  1. Your town sounds so interesting, sounds like you live well!

    ReplyDelete
  2. you are so lucky you have all that so close, unfortunately I have to travel to came close to anything that good.

    ReplyDelete
  3. Where you live sounds lovely! We have a similar street not far from where we live too (except it's a short drive away, not walking distance unfortunately) with a quirky cafe, a second hand clothes shop, a pre-loved furniture store (sells all the mid century furniture I love!) and a new bakery which has become our favourite new place to enjoy beef pies for lunch. I think I might just have to squeeze in a visit there tomorrow :)

    ReplyDelete
  4. Boy do I wish I lived somewhere nice, but I just have Big W and KFC down the road! haha. I have to travel pretty far to find nice stores like that!

    Oh and thank you for visiting :D

    ReplyDelete
  5. you had me at 'year round Christmas section'...love it!

    ReplyDelete
  6. That all sounds so lovely! Especially love that all these shops are on cobbled streets! Oh how I miss the cobbled streets of Europe (although my feet in heels do not miss them at all *haha*)

    Thank you for stopping by my little vintage blog and leaving such lovely compliments!

    ReplyDelete
  7. i love this post and your description of that town and the store... hope you're weekend was a nice one!

    ReplyDelete
  8. Sounds perfect! I hope to visit Bath one day. It was on our original itinerary this summer during our UK road trip but then we ran out of time. Bises x

    ReplyDelete
  9. Sounds like a funky little area to hang out...strudel bar eh? I'm there.

    ReplyDelete
  10. The nativity ornament is just amazing, the carving details are so beautiful. Your grandparents are going to love it and your dad is going to love the car, love that color blue...reminds me of Mad Men!

    Love your wedding photos, you look so lovely together. Congrats!

    Thank you for visiting my blog! ♥

    ReplyDelete
  11. Oh a strudel bar??? Sounds perfect to me! :) Glad that you had such a wonderful weekend! xoxo

    ReplyDelete
  12. Sounds yum! I remember Bath being a pretty cool little place so you're lucky to live in such a cool town :)

    ReplyDelete
  13. oh man....what fun! cobblestone streets sound awesome....

    so glad you had a great weekend!

    xo

    ReplyDelete
  14. Bath sounds like a seriously awesome place!! :D xx

    ReplyDelete
  15. Hansel und Gretel....with a shop name like that, who could resist? It sounds fabulous!!

    ReplyDelete
  16. Bath was my absolute favourite city in England. We stayed at this adorable B and B and just spent our days walking those gorgeous cobbled streets you speak of. I can't wait to visit again...
    a-littlelady.blogger.com

    ReplyDelete
  17. Yum- strudel bar!

    The last time I was in Bath I was 18!

    Hansel und Gretel sounds like a very cool shop!

    ReplyDelete
  18. mmm, nothin i like better than a town with a good street full of funny little shops...
    :)

    ReplyDelete