Westfield Mall in London?

Westfield Mall

Well it looks like Westfield has made it to London. They took over almost all the malls in IL, for the better I think, and now they build a new one in apparently what used to be a really bad neighborhood and turned it around. It is a fairly impressive complex walking up to it, and on the inside.

Walkway to mall.

All along this walkway were restaurants. The immediate building to the right of the picture has a large Waitrose (Yuppie Grocery Store) and brand name shops such as Dior, Prada, etc. The main mall is all the way at the end.

Entrance shot to Waitrose.

Through out the mall there are these interesting looking Touch screen kiosks to guide you through the mall.

Kiosk

Had to throw in this picture of the All Saints clothing store. It is pretty interesting, they have all these vintage Singer sewing machines hanging on the whole face of the store.

All Saints

We walked around to a disastrous to your pocket, amount of stores and Gia stopped for a photo shoot with a princess haha.

Disney Store

It was about tea time when we walked into the mall so we sat at this cafe that was situated in the middle of the walkway of the mall. We had the most amazing strawberry cake and chocolate cake, but sigh… I’m so bad at remembering to take pics of the eats we have. Sorry, I have no drool inducing pics to share.

Inside of mall.

Taking a break.

Gaming on the phone.

They have these great little rug and coach areas where you can sit a take a break from all the crazy shopping. Upstairs is this great food court, and if you had babies, they have this fantastic little room of changing tables and a rest corner with a carpet and some toys for toddlers to roam a little free. Nice! In general the U.K. is quite nice for mothers and young children.

They have so many support groups and activies that are usually free for a mother of young ones. It may be because it is so difficult for women to work here once you have kids. Gosh… the kids have so many strange weeks off, instead of the big summer break. It seems they are off almost every month. I’m wondering even if you got your kids into a before and after school thing, would they be able to deal with these 1-2 week off holidays. Hmm…