Lake View @ Camden

Probably the best view in London, it is.

By the Lake @ Camden

Why would anyone want to sit in freezing cold on uncomfortable motorcycle seats and eat some horrid smelling far east stuff while watching a shitty-colored lake, I couldn't figure.

Camden Lock Village

Camden Town is to be seen, just for the experience if for nothing else. If you are one hardcore high street lover, I am not exactly sure you will pay the second visit , but do take the Northern Line and see that punk is not dead for just once.

 

Marquis of Granby

Marquis of Granby is a nice little (not so little in London standards really) typical British pub. Like every other British pub, it is situated in a cute corner btw two cute streets with cute stone buildings, offering a humble selection of booze including Guiness, various ales, apple cider and an occasional snack menu comprising mainly of potato chips (served packaged, yes), sausage rolls, fish & chips and the like. It's also packed with a crowd (as all pubs, actually) whose extent of locality is impossible to tell for sure. So, expect the pub scene to be a magnified version of your living room, with a bar in the center and a couple of more stools and people in crew neck sweaters drinking beer and shouting around.

Houses of Notting Hill

3-story, cramped, stone houses of London. They are there to make sure you love this dark, pale, damp city.

P.S. We did but don't you skip The Hummingbird Bakery somewhere around here. People had made this queue stretching its way towards the street at 4 P.M. in front of the little shop. Londoners do take their afternoon tea and cookie treat seriously.

Portobello Road

Visit this place on a Saturday. Not that we've seen it every other day of the week, but any London guidebook will tell you to do so. Houses are pretty enough in their own right but it wouldn't hurt seeing a few boutique shops and browsing stalls crammed with peculiar vintage items, would it?

George Orwell House @ Portobello

Running into George Orwell's house at Portobello makes you wonder whether those walls witnessed any of what had gone through the severs of the mind that put down something like 1984.

On the Stansted Express

The old blue train. Be sure you yake the Stansted Express if you've landed on the victorian territory on a cheap flight, and wanna keep saving some more pounds for Topshop, Guiness and fish&chips. If you wanna pick up your snacks from the airport grocery for the 45-minute ride, you might be surprised that edible and drinkable stuff is being served on board...(edit: sold, not served). Also, the train takes off every 30 minutes but can start at odd times like 04:33 A.M. And a few minutes do matter. This is not Turkey, folks!