London
brausende Metropole
Die Metropole London bietet neben den grossen Touristenattraktionen das hautnahe Erleben von interressantem shopping mit world food im bunten ethnischem Treiben: wir besuchten Columbia Road Flower Market (Shoreditch) und Spittalfilds Markets und Brick Lane. Empfehlenswert sind auch Stoke Newington Church Street und Broadway Market (Hackney).
sources: weekly magazines: Time out, What's on
a bustling metropole (markets for the weekend)
Columbia Road Flower Market
Famous bustling Sunday morning Columbia Road Flower Market offers an enormous range of flowers and plants for home and garden .....cut flowers that all have to be sold at incredibly low prices towards the close of the market. Lining the flower market and in nearby side streets, you will find lots of unusual shops, fashionable boutiques, designer studios, and galleries, cafes and restos............More
new used shoes ?
Within ten minutes walking distance is London's Brick Lane – an entire street devoted to authentic Bangladeshi Cuisine. The Brick Lane Market (tube Aldgate East) is more like a flea market selling bric-a-brac, second-hand fashion as well as fruit, vegetables, etc. There are also two indoor markets: Upmarket and Backmarket.............More
Escape from the cloned high streets and discover 'hidden gems' from fashion, arts to interiors and property, as you wander through areas steeped in history but recently immersed in creativity and cutting edge or vintage style fashion and art at vibrant Old Spitalfields Market and discover the most interesting shops, bars and restaurants Thu: antiques & vintage, Fri: fashion & art, Sun: all shops & all stalls.................More
Stoke Newington Church Str
Hackney is also a gem with its colourful and vibrant shops lining Stoke Newington Church Street with extensive bio-food market, home-made-bakery, pubs and cafes, crazy fashion and shoe shops, variety of world-cuisine restaurants......Hackney offers further the eclectic Saturday market in Broadway Market......More
attractive other areas:
City, Covent Garden, Mayfair, Soho, Whitechapel, Westbourne Grove, Chelsea, Marleybone..........More
London stays
The Leonard, (tube Marble Arch or Bond Str or direct by bus from St. Pancrass International), offers large cozy rooms with modern bath, exceptionally clean, friendly service staff at reasonable internet rates. It is only two minutes walk to the shops of Oxford Street and Bond Street which includes the famous Selfridges.
Resources
Ralf Nestmeyer, London MM-City, 264 Seiten + herausnehmbare Karte (1:18.000), 7. Auflage 2010, ISBN 978-3-89953-585-3
Es gibt zu jeder Zeit mehr als 1000 Gründe, nach London zu reisen: kaum enden wollende Shoppingmeilen und -märkte, urige Pubs und ausgefallene Szenekneipen und -läden, eine schier unendliche Restaurantvielfalt, Klassiker wie Westminster Abbey oder St. Paul's Cathedral, und und.............. In den letzten Jahren hat sich zudem viel verändert: Durch die Eröffnung der Tate Gallery of Modern Art spielt die Themsemetropole in der Kunstszene wieder in der gleichen Liga wie New York und Paris, Architekturfreunde finden in der City eine Vielzahl postmoderner Bauten und die Olympiade im Jahre 2012 wirft bereits ihre Schatten voraus. In 16 Rundgängen führt der Autor den Leser durch das gesamte Stadtgebiet und berücksichtigt dabei auch unbekanntere Winkel wie Notting Hill, Camden oder Brixton. Und selbst bei einem zwischenzeitlichen Großstadt-Schock weiß das Buch Rat, denn Abhilfe schaffen gemütliche Ausflüge in ruhigere Fahrwasser wie Windsor Castle, Hampton Court oder Kew Gardens.
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