Christmas Shopping in Portsmouth!

Our family is super hard to buy Christmas presents for and they're also super picky on quality sooooo this led to us driving down to Portsmouth a couple of days ago to have a little mooch around and see if we could get our hands on the 'perfect' gift.

The location we visited is called Gunwharf Quays and is a designer outlet located in the heart of the city; right outside the main station if you would be taking the train!

We go about twice a year, mainly for the Nike Outlet AND the location is so so pretty when the weather is good ie. Summer. The restaurants are all on the harbour side and it is very picturesque - we tried our best to capture this on the below photos but the weather was not playing ball haha

I mean did you really go to Portsmouth if you didn't take lots of pointless photos of the Emirates Spinnaker Tower?

Our favourite shops:

• Nike  - we like to kid ourselves we'll actually go to the gym but in reality we just love love love gym wear for lazing round the house in 
• Timberland 
• Kurt Geiger
• Lindt
• Ralph Lauren
• The Cosmetics Company - this store features discounted products from the following brands; M.A.C, Bobby Brown, Smashbox, Clinique etc. 

Now would it be a shopping trip without cocktails? If you screamed 'hell no' in response you are a wise wise individual and can come shopping with us xxx

We decided to grab a bite to eat and some cocktails at Azzurro Italian Bar + Kitchen. Lorraine didn't love it because she got ID'd and Amy didn't buuut the food was actually lush. We also rated the Grey Goose Espresso Martini quite highly but the other cocktails were just weak and didn't taste like they ought to (Strawberry Daiquiri and Cosmo) - the staff were quite young on shift so maybe they weren't that used to making these cocktails. 

The view of the harbour from this restaurant will be amazing in summer though so we would consider going back.

Overall it was a successful trip - still had to top on our last gifts today in little old Basingstoke but WE ARE FINISHED! Every one has a gift to open on the 25th and anyone we've forgotten is just going to have to get a massive hug and kisses haha

This is actually a first for us, we're normally those nutters running about on Christmas Eve *smiles smugly*

We're going to try and be super organised when wrapping the presents and take photos so we can show you guys, what we bought and for who. After Christmas of course!!

xxx