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It was Tom's first proper day off since our move to London so we were keen to head out and explore.

We started with a short 10-minute walk to the Newport Street Gallery, where we had a table booked for brunch at Damien Hirst's restaurant and decided to check out the artwork beforehand.

The gallery was bigger than I had expected, spread out over three floors with the restaurant on the second.

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There were some terrifying sculptures of screaming heads.

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The next room was filled with life floats filled with different outfits.

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We then made our way up the winding staircase to the second floor gallery.

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A lot of the art was made from found objects from the sea.

It was then time for brunch at Pharmacy 2 and we had the whole place to ourselves apart from one stag party who seemed to be in the wrong place.

The restaurant is designed by Damien Hirst and looks amazing with cabinets filled with medicine boxes, seats embroidered with drugs and brightly coloured pills everywhere.

We decided to start with some cocktails, our favourite kind of medicine.

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Tom ordered the Hix Fix with cherry & sparkling wine.

I picked the Pearbon Sour, which the waiter said was his favourite, with pear whisky, Merlet Creme de Poire Williams, lemon and frothy egg white.

To eat, I had avocado on toast with crab and chilli. It was delicious and not too spicy which I liked.

Tom had the Eggs De Beauvoir which was an even fancier version of salmon royal.

I loved the pill shaped bar stools.

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We popped into the shop for the gallery next door which was called Other Criteria.

I was admiring this pill ring when I spotted the price tag of £18,000.

We then walked to Albert Embankment where we spotted Tamesis Dock, a super cool pub on a docked boat in the Thames.

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The view was amazing with Big Ben in the distance.

We then walked even further along until we reached Battersea where I begged Tom to take me to the dog & cat home.

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Tom had to give me a talking to about not getting attached o any animals before he agreed to let us go in.

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Though he was worried about me getting attached, I had to drag Tom away from Gonzalez, a 20 year old black cat who loves lazing on the sofa and watching TV.

All of the cats were adorable and had already been adopted. I was amazed to hear they find homes for an average of six cats a day and had already rehomed 730 cats since the start of the year.

We popped into see the dogs afterwards and Tom got to try out one of the sample cages.

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The dogs were so cute and made puppy eyes at us. I was tempted by this little terrior and a Siberian husky named Micha who had a sign saying "I like cats" next to her cage.

I spotted a poster for their knitting group, the Knitting Kittens, which I can't wait to come back and join.

We then picked up some sushi and headed to Battersea Park.

There were some super cute duckling next to the boating lake.

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We ordered some black coconut ice cream from Jude's Ice Cream at the Pear Tree Cafe. It was delicious and looked like the most gothic dessert I've ever seen.

Though we had then planned to head home, we ended up at Lost & Co, a bar that looked like someone's home.

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There was a retro kitchen, complete with Smeg fridge where you could sit on a bar stool at the kitchen counter.

There was a bed made out of benches around a table.

There was even a tilled bathroom with the bath turned into a sofa and rubber duckies on the wall.

It was lovely and warm, so we sat in the beer garden.

I tried the Ed Sheeran Martini with lemongrass and ginger.

We went for dinner at Flour To The People, a cute little bakery where they serve sourdough pizza in the evenings.

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We shared the delicious Fantasia Di Funghi with wild mushrooms, ricotta, mozzarella and truffle oil.