The Mad Hatter's Journal: A Trip To The City

I do love a good city, Milan, Paris, Barcelona, London, Manchester, love them all! But living in Scotland I have one problem, the lack of REAL cities. Now don't get me wrong I love Edinburgh and Glasgow but they aren't exactly huge, are they?
Anyway, a couple of days ago me and my lovely friend Hannah were feeling rather city deprived so decided to go on a little day trip to Glasgow.
We set off in the car and for once it was a beautiful day! The sun was shining and the sky blue, we were quite excited. We were hoping to visit the degree show at the art school (which is well worth a visit, a LOVELY Charles Rennie Mackintosh building) but once we arrived in Glasgow we decided what we truly needed was some well deserved retail therapy! So we scrapped the plan of an art filled day and headed off to Wagamama to grab a quick lunch before we hit the shops.
I always find it funny taking people to Wagamama for the first time as more often than not they are awfully confused by the names and the menus, I am a sucker for habit and almost always have the same thing "A mini chicken ramen, side of chilli squid and and apple, celery, mint and lime juice for me please!"
The food was delicious and if you have never been there before I suggest you pay them a visit as not only is the food great but the staff are always lovely and very happy to chat. Thumbs up for Wagamama Glasgow!

After a wonderful lunch we set off in search of the new forever 21, which believe me wasn't hard to find, it's giant! Having been a huge Forever 21 fan ever since Eilidh introduced me to the one in London, which I must say is beautiful shop, I always hoped we would get one in sunny Scotland. But I never thought we actually would, but good old Forever 21 seem to have read the minds of me and many others living in Scotland and we FINALLY have one in Glasgow! Me and Hannah were in awe at just how perfect they have made it, it's so shiny and feels so clean. It seems so sophisticated but the prices won't break your bank, win win situation!

Really though, we maybe got a little too excited at the decor...

After searching EVERY shop on Buchanan Street for a pair of disco shorts (YES, DISCO PANTS BUT SHORT!) I finally found the PERFECT pair in American Apparel, oh how I worship that shop!

Whilst in there I also found an adorable lacy cropped tee, and of course I couldn't resist!

Goes in to American Apparel looking for one thing, comes out with a whole outfit, situation sound familiar?

Yes?

I thought that may be the case!

But you have to agree these are just gorgeous.

There was just time for a quick Starbucks before we ran to Boots for new lipsticks and mascaras, we were sticking to the essentials for once!

In Starbucks I am as bad as I am in Wagamama, for ever ordering the same thing, on cold days it'll be a medium caramel latte with whipped cream, but if we are blessed with the sun it is not a rare sight to see me with a caramel frappachino in one hand and a camera in the other.

And it was muffins all round, how do Starbucks do such perfect muffins??

After picking up only the essentials from Boots (Okay maybe it was a little more than just the essentials..) we decided to grab a snack for the way home. If you have never had a sweet pretzel before you need to head to Mr Pretzels, NOW. They are heaven in a bag!

All in all it was a very enjoyable day!