Last minute shopping at London Heathrow Airport

It's been a long time since I wrote a market post, and you probably won't think of the airport when we talk about markets. Let me take you for a swish around London Heathrow Airport LHR Terminal 3 today.

LHR has 5 terminals. T1, 2 and 3 and all clustered together and are part of the original buildings. T4 and T5 are a little further away built when LHR expanded and is accessible by shuttle buses. In case you ever travel or transfer at LHR make sure you know which terminal you're going because you needed extra time to get between the terminal. If you read my previous post, you'll know I travelled last month flying out from T3. This is the outside. Very pretty!

I think the fuchsia lights outside are part of Virgin Airlines decor and extends to its check in area inside. I didn't fly with Virgin, I just thought it was very pretty for taking photos.

British products

Airports are a great place for shopping, they make sure they take the last penny off visitors before they leave the country. In particular, LHR always has a good range of shops in their terminals from the most exclusive international luxury brands, to many British products.

Ok, I know Tobleron isn't British! I love this package and how they've incorporated the blue, red and white from the Union Jack and a big Hello on the front. Actually I have a feeling I might see this in CDG Airport in Paris with a big Bonjour!! You'll normally see a lot of these special packaging at the airport and they charge you an arm and a leg for it. This block of chocolate cost £5. Pretty sure normal blocks of this size don't cost so much in the normal shops.

One good chocolate brand that is British is Cadbury, a company that is nearly two hundred years old. It's not at the high end luxury chocolate, but does lots of good quality different types of chocolate. All my favourite type of chocolate are from Cadbury, and when I sent a Christmas package to Ukraine to @zirochka for Christmas I made sure I put loads of Cadbury goodies inside.

Us Brits love to showcase our Britishness to the world, like this Big Ben.

One of the display unit was modeled like a car and it seemed like you can take a photo with it and they will email it to you. I tried to play with it but it wouldn't let me enter my email address. Too bad.

Cadbury's flagship product is Dairy Milk, they sell lot's of it here.

Us Brits like our tea and have quite a few quality brands. Fortnum & Mason is over 300 years old and their hampers are very popular as gift. I've never bought them before as they're quite expensive!

One brand that is more affordable is Twinnings. They do a lot of fruit tea and are very popular as gifts. UK has a lot more different flavours compared to overseas and I often buy them for friends, but not today. Twinnings is my everyday go to tea. It's a bit more expensive than normal high street brand but still within my price range and I always have a stock at home.

I only bought one item when I was at the airport, and that's box of Walkers shortbread. Walkers is a Scottish brand and their shortbread is very nice. Shortbread is a type of biscuit, very rich with butter that melts in your mouth. I bought a box for my friend. It's the one at the bottom shelf had special UK packaging to show case our Britishness. Of course that cost double the price compared to normal supermarkets! Never mind, it's for a good friend.

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