Classical shopping in the big classic department stores: Fortnum & Mason and Harrods, and in Oxford Street and Carnaby Street. Aside from the big tourist attractions, the metropolitan London offers colourful ethnic groups, fancy designs, mix fashion shopping with world food: our favourites are Columbia Road Flower Market (Shoreditch) and Spittalfilds Markets and Brick Lane. Coming on strong are Stoke Newington Church Street and Hackney (Hackney Walk, Broadway Market).
New is the tube East London Line (also known as Overground or Ginger Line), better characterised as hipster express with stops in Dalston, Hackney and Shoreditch: Hackney Wick, Hackney Central, Dalston Junction, Haggerston, Hoxton, Shoreditch High Street.
Hier noch die ersten Tipps fuer Fans moderner Architektur:
1) das gigantische moderne London Bridge Quarter mit Renzo Pieno's 310m hohem Wolkenkratzer The Shard, London Bridge Station und dem Buerokomplex The Place.
2) die Stadien der Olympischen Sommerspiele 2012
3) der Queen Elizabeth Olympic Parc (100 h ecologische moderne Grünanlage mit einheimischen Bäumen und Pflanzen und Gartenanlage mit Pflanzen aus aller Welt) - zwischen Stratford und East London.
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
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
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 the new Hackney Walk outlet center and further the eclectic Saturday market in Broadway Market......More
attractive other areas:
City, Covent Garden, Mayfair, Soho, Whitechapel, Westbourne Grove, Chelsea, Marleybone..........More
or
a walk from Camden Lock along the canal to Little Venice with restos and bars along the canal or on boats; The Bridge House, 13 Westbourne Terrace Road (resto)
going local here: www.myfriendshotel.com
www.easyhotel.com
since July 2010 the public bicycle sharing system BORIS BIKE (official name Barclays Cycle Hire (BCH) allows you to rent a bike for a trip and drop it all over town with your credit card.
Saskia Graville, London style guide: eat slep shop (by a local)
Knack Weekend, Londen, Juli 2011
Ralf Nestmeyer, London MM-City
Time out (weekly magazine)
What's on (weekly magazine)
lecool.com, A weird & wonderful guide to London
http://london.schmap.com, real-time Schmap London Guide
het andere Londen (ISBN 978 90 6445 437 0)
Londen, Trotter
100xLonden
London.schmap.com
Twitter-trending London restaurants and bars:
www.twitter.com/LondonPicks
Live music, parties and more happening right now in London:
www.twitter.com/LondonNow
maps designed by Herb Lester:
wish you were there (retro guide swinging sixties)
East London Companion (hip locations East London from Old Street to Hackneys Wick)
You are here (wifi map of London)
May we help you (specialist suppliers)
Uncle´s Guide to London (London for kids)
apps:
London jamcams, iPhone
nearest tube station, iPhone
fizz weather, iPhone
London MM-City (8. Auflage 2011)
gleich hier online bestellen; versandkostenfrei in Deutschland.
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.