Harrods

Many of the things we did in London were nostalgic; places we loved, places we’d spent time in before, places that had a special memory. Harrods, though not somewhere we spent a lot of time in while we lived in the UK, we knew it would be somewhere the girls would enjoy. What I didn’t think about in advance was the fact that Charlotte has no concept of the term “window shopping”. The number of times I said, ‘no, we’re not buying that’ was pretty high.

One of the things Harrods is famous for is their Christmas windows. This year was gingerbread themed. They were also celebrating the 70th anniversary of Dior being sold in the department store, so all the windows were House of Dior themed as well. They did not disappoint!

The store occupies a 5-acre site and has 1.1 million sq ft of retail space. Needless to say we didn’t visit it all.

We started in the food hall, because why not! Though the girls (okay, and Adam & I) would have eaten everything there, we settled on a couple of scones for a snack.

Then we made our way through a couple of sections. Charlotte found something she really wanted, but even with the biggest “special eyes” I’ve ever seen projected at her Dad, there was no convincing him.

It turns out even Daddy's can say no 🙎