Category:
Bookshops
Areas: Noel Park, Alexandra Palace
This is the only independent bookshop in the Wood Green shopping district. That alone is good enough reason to shop there. Managed well, independent bookstores fill an important role in a community.
It seems the owners of Big Green Bookshop are invested in filling this role, not just selling books. They host local events, have readings by local authors and are active in the community. Hopefully this will help increase community pride around here.
The store sells all the books you'd expect to see, including travel, fiction, cooking, DIY, and, of course, things written by local authors. There's a nice selection of books about London and local areas of North London, including books on the history of Noel Park, Wood Green, Alexandra Palace and Hornsey. Today I bought a book of walks around Alexandra Palace.
Listed in: Markets, Places to Avoid in London
Greenwich Market is a bit of a broad term that actually refers to four different markets, which makes things a bit confusing if you're trying to tell someone how to get their.
My favourite one is the open air Sunday Market--the one with all the junk. While handcrafted items and gourmet food are nice, junk is best. It's one of my top ten markets in London, and definitely my favourite place to spend Sunday morning. Good junk everywhere you look, the peel of church bells in the background, the smell of bacon butties wafting from the market cart, quirky English people selling and buying crap.... what's not to love?
Categories:
Japanese,
Asian Fusion
Area: Chelsea
Listed in: Places to Avoid in London
Categories:
Hairdressers,
Nail Salons
Area: Covent Garden
Categories:
Men's Clothing,
Women's Clothing
Area: Marylebone
Listed in: Places to Avoid in London
Listed in: Nachos
This is two doors down from my office so it's the watering hole of all the people I work with. In fact when I first joined, my department held a welcome lunch for me there. You'd think I'd be tired of it by now, but I'm not.
It still has many of the Victorian fittings left over from when it was a gin palace in the 1890's. The etched glass meant to lure people in, the carved wooden bar and fittings, meant to substitute for the living rooms many of its patrons didn't have. Those were the days when mothers gave their infants gin, when children were sent to the gin palace with a ceramic jug to collect the family's daily supply.
Now it's just a pretty pub. The food's not bad either, common pub fare of sausage and mash, burgers, jacket potatoes, and Sunday roasts.
Listed in: Museums Worth Visiting
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Yelping SinceFebruary 2009
Things I LoveLiberty, Free Museum Late Nights, Victorian London, magazines, Wonder Woman, David Bowie, Jumbles, Fringe Fashion Week, British Fashion Week, Apartmento, Madge, nachos, Edinburgh, my Mac, Chip forks, Battersea Boot Fair
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