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Style / Misty Rain + London / Camden Foundry

posted on June 2, 2015

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A while back — a really long while back, for full accuracy, though not as long a while back as another outfit I’ve got scheduled — I met up for coffee with Laila from Tape Parade and Belphoebe from Rags of Love. I suggested slash pressured them to meet in Camden because I could walk there and I’d never really got a good look at it: I’d just seen the main road and was convinced people were making up the charm.

The walk was not quite as pleasant as I’d hoped for, as there was this misting rain coming down, it was quite drearily gray, and I was running late, so I wasn’t exactly stepping around leisurely with my camera as befits a pleasant walk. Also, I got lost. I’d checked the map multiple times beforehand, and walking straight down from Haverstock Hill seemed super boring, so I wanted to postpone the turn onto that road as long as possible, and so headed down Belsize Park Gardens towards “south.” I forgot “south” was Regent’s Park and Primrose Hill, not Camden, and so, when I got to King Henry’s Road, I had to turn back and figure out where I was on an offline phone map, and how to go east and actually reach the right road.

(Side note: How did I never make it to Primrose Hill? Why did I never take that walk through Regent’s Park? I want to go back.)

From then on it was the aforementioned dreary walk. That road is a lot nicer up north towards Hampstead. Chalk Farm isn’t very exciting.

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It turns out, however, that Camden is! There are all these little nooks and corners, and cobblestone walks and quads, and street food and tiny establishments, and stairs taking you up to more street food and more tiny establishments. Laila took us to two of these cafés, both of which I scoffed at because they were dark and stifling, and my head was feeling off enough from the rain to add to it.

I’m a commandeering nitpicker kind of person when I want to be.

We ended up at the Camden Foundry a little ways further north towards Chalk Farm, in the Camden Stables, whatever the fuck that is. A week or two before, a few bloggers had held a market there, and I remembered it being, like, well-lit and spacious from the photos, which is all I want in a coffee shop. Well, that and armchairs. I like armchairs. I miss armchairs.

The Camden Foundry is a really huge space with a glass ceiling, an area with mismatched chairs and tables, and another area with a lot of rugs and artwork and couches. The couches are pretty comfortable, but I’m concerned about the provenance of the furry stuff.

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I had a pretty nice vanilla latte; it was pretty and it was hot and I enjoyed it. The menu was on the overpriced side, but I’m not super used to independent London so I can’t tell you how it compares. I can just tell you they had cookies in jars and they were like, £2 each. That seemed a little much. The latte was £2.80.

It was definitely comfy, and it was nice to see the rain fall down outside. All in all, I had a really nice day, and it left me wanting to socialize more, if also exhausted. Headaches and bad weather and crowds, all things I don’t handle well before coffee — or ever, to tell you the truth.

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Full-body shots by Laila

Location: Camden Foundry
Stables Market, Chalk Farm Road
Camden Town

Coat: Mango / Gloves: c/o Pia Jewellery / Bag: c/o Joules / T-shirt: c/o Blanc Mind / Jeans: Pimkie / Cardigan: c/o B.Young / Glasses: c/o Firmoo / Trainers: ASOS

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7 Comments

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  • Z.

    Lix I love reading your blog. Your posts/writing is just so honest/raw. You blog how life actually is instead of presenting it in a neat-little package like a lot of bloggers tend to do.

    Anyways, lovely shots. As someone who hopes to one day call London home at some point, I love seeing snapshots of you out and about.

    Z · JPOTTER

    • Lix Hewett

      <3

      I hope to go back to London sometime soon. I had to move back to Spain for a bit for money/flat reasons, but I want to go back this summer, and then save up for a while and move somewhere. I've caught the travel bug, haha.

      • Z.

        now you’re in Spain?! That’s even cooler, lol. I understand I’ve got the travel bug too. I’ve had to leave Vegas and go back to Atlanta to save up for my next move. Have you considered where you’re going next?

        • Lix Hewett

          Oh, I’m at my parents’ – I explained it a couple of posts back. My landlady ended my lease early and I didn’t have enough saved up for a flathunt, so I was pretty much homeless and I just jumped on a plane and went home, haha. I want to save up for a little while before I move somewhere so my next stint alone isn’t quite as marred by financial anxieties. So we’re both basically in the same place!

          I’ve thought a lot about Paris, actually, and a little bit about various European capitals. And Cologne, because I know someone there.

  • Hayley

    My uni sells big cookies for £1 and I thought that was expensive!

    Love Hayley,

    Water Painted Dreams

    • Lix Hewett

      I’m used to seeing the prices at Starbucks, which are all like, £1+, but it still seems so excessive for a COOKIE.

  • Kerri

    I could really go for a coffee right now… well tea, but I could go for a cafe and some cake :) That cardi looks particularly warm and fluffy!

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Welcome to my blog! I'm Lix: full-time graphic designer for bloggers and freelancers, and part-time photographer. I'm an unapologetic cat lady and perpetually angry feminist nightmare. I like attention and pretty things, and that's why I run a lifestyle blog. Learn more.
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