Travel Reference
In-Depth Information
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Nobody can enter Coram's Fields playground without being accompanied
by a child. So allow the little ones to run around with goats, chickens, and
local youngsters (7.3).
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Visit the markets of East London; Hoxton Street Market, Broadway Market,
or Village Green are all indelibly local (8.2).
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Explore Deptford, a quirky South London borough bursting with individu-
ality yet relatively undiscovered (11.2).
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Step back in history and recreate London life over the last three centuries at
the Dennis Sever's House (8.1).
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Visit Brixton Village on a Thursday evening and watch it come alive with
locals from all over the city (11.2).
Iconic Drinking Experiences
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Drink a coffee in a converted public toilet in Oxford Circus (7.3).
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Settle down in a cosy London pub, nestled on a cobbled street and full of
wooden beams, like the Holly Bush in Hampstead (9.2).
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Tour the local concoctions of the Camden Town Brewery beneath Kentish
Town West station (9.1).
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Relive 400 years of drunken revelry at some of Chelsea's seriously historic
pubs, like the Star Tavern and The Nag's Head (10.1).
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Have a cocktail on top of a multistory car park at Frank's Cafe in Peckham
(10.2).
Pretending to be Royalty
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Treat yourself to classic afternoon tea at the plush Savoy hotel (7.2)
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Wander through the aristocratic splendor of Kenwood House, a stately home
that's free to visit (9.2).
