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hello from London okay I've lived in London for 10 years I've got friends that have lived here for even longer than that and part of the advantage of living here versus what you guys are doing visiting is that we get loads of time to explore the nooks and crannies of this city and that's part of what I think makes me very good at my job but sometimes us londoners find things and places that we think are so good it's sometimes tempting to hide them from the Taurus because we want to keep them for ourselves but in this video we are going to stop the gate peeping and I'm going to tell you about some places that londoners love but sometimes we're like maybe we can't tell the tour so come along I think you're going to really like these places they're a bit more adventurous and fun and we'll get some good treats along the way as well so this is Camden passage a pedestrianized super cute shopping street here in Islington an area that tourists often don't come to this is different from Camden lock and Camden Market which are super well known to tourists and quite frankly I don't think are that great Camden passage is actually more popular with locals that live in the area and it's also where a lot of antiques shows film this is a 1969 original vintage London Underground diagram of lines Tube map that is like a really special gift if you have someone who loves London back at home [Music] are lots of great brick and mortar cafes shops and restaurants here that are open basically every day but if you come on a Wednesday or a Saturday that's when you're gonna find the Antiques Market Vintage Market and another Market that just sells a whole bunch of stuff so those are great days to come there's also some stalls that will be open Thursdays and Fridays but Wednesday and Saturday is the main fuzz the main deal and Wednesday is always going to be quieter than a Saturday so personally I'd recommend coming on Wednesday that's when we're here I really like this little shop pistachio and pickle Dairy they do like British cheeses but they do these Toasties that you can smell from down the passage they are so good cheese and chili jam that's what I got that is cheesy the next place I'm going to show you is where you can go for some really tasty chocolate that you can take home to family and friends if you don't eat it before you get home this is dark sugars a chocolate shop opened by a guardian woman named nianga who started with a stall selling truffles in Borough market and she did so well that she opened up three brick and mortar shops and this is the OG location here on Brick Lane I love this shop because you can smell the rich chocolate as you pass by and it's like drawing you into it the chocolate here is amazing everything is handmade on location with chocolate that is from Bianca's family's Farm in Ghana so this is like really really good stuff also I'll be honest no londoners are really trying to keep this place but I just kind of wanted an excuse to feature them and also to have a reason to come and get some chocolate so let's go into the shop and I'll show you what I think is best thing to order in there foreign I'll take one of the classic hot chocolates okay with normal milk and chocolate shavings oh um I'll do actually oat milk that would be great yeah and chocolate shavings too yeah thank you one of my favorite things to get here and also one of the things they're most famous for at dark sugars is their decadent hot chocolate it is made with Ghanaian chocolate and they put these shavings on the top and it is just so rich and so delicious if you find yourself getting a little bit tired while you're doing your touristing around London we have so many incredible green spaces where you can go relax take a load off your feet or just hang out and explore and one of those great green spaces is camley Street park right here in cold drops yard in King's cross right next to Regents Canal this place is amazing because it's a nature reserve right in the middle of one of the busiest parts of London right next to Regions Canal but actually because it's a little bit off the beaten path a lot of londoners don't even know about it but it is a beautiful Green Space to come visit it's crazy because you don't really feel like you're in Buzzy can cross while you're in here this is where all the coal from the north of England would come before it got distributed out to London to get burned and one's coal was banned then this area actually went into disrepair until 1985 when a regeneration of this area began then we got family Street Park and a few years ago Cole drops yard popped up which is a development of restaurants shops cafes we've talked about it a lot on this channel it is a great spot to come if you're in the area we're also right next to Regions Canal so you could pair a visit here with a nice long walk up the canal past Camden to Regents Park or you could go the opposite way and make your way to Victoria Park this place is really family friendly so if you want to bring the kids here there's activity books they do special family events and it's just nice and open for children to do a little bit of running around and exploring I'm sure it doesn't come as a surprise to you guys that I like to document my own travels and unfortunately I don't always have my videographer with me with her Swanky DSLR but I still want my footage to be colorful and crisp and for the audio to be nice and clear well that's why we are pumped to be working with with Canon to show you the coolest new travel camera the PowerShot V10 it's a camera specifically designed for people who want to capture amazing travel memories like a professional vlogger but who want to do it in the easiest and most simple way possible this tiny camera shoots in 4k and has a wide angle 19 millimeter lens which means I can get everything in the shot that I need to I can literally just bring this little camera along with me it's got everything I need from 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the Terrace bar where we are now and it is absolutely beautiful you get to look over Covent Garden there's Greenery everywhere you can come up here and Order champagne cocktails you can even bring up coffee in the morning and it's actually doesn't get that crowded considering what a great beautiful space this is there's actually a lot of places that you can eat and drink throughout the Royal opera house they even have a beautiful restaurant but you don't have to have a ticket to a show to come up here it's open from 12 o'clock basically every day but I would recommend that you pair a visit here with a tour of the royal opera house which they put on almost every day of the week maybe I've watched one of my videos raise your hand [Music] foreign it's very hard to find the entrance to Frank's if you've never been so heck and Plex and then it's over here there you go [Music] [Music] I mean the overall sour sounds lovely yeah well that's toaster we covered a lot of rooftops on this YouTube channel and I personally absolutely love them but most rooftops in London come with Hefty price tags on the Cocktails so if that's not gonna work for you we've actually got a great place we are here at Frank's Cafe which is in Peckham in South London and this is a local favorite this is a bar at the top of a disused car park and londoners love to come here on a sunny day for good cocktails good food good views Good Vibes and good prices can't beat them this is a community run space and the not-for-profit group that run it actually help emerging artists who create amazing art installations up here on the rooftop right next to the cafe so definitely check those out once you've grabbed a cocktail and see some really cool arts kind of like a two-for-one deal you can actually see a lot from up here there's The Shard the walkie-talkie building with the sky Garden at the top St Paul's is in the distance the London Eye is over there and over to the right is Canary Wharf which is the financial district is only open from Wednesday to Sunday during the summer months so in the UK that's May to September because nobody really wants to drink a pims in the rain I mean two yards never stopped a British person before but during the summer on a sunny day this is one of the vibiest places that you will find in all of London it gets pretty crazy I'll give you a couple more things that you can do while you're down here in Peckham right at the bottom of this building is Peck and Plex which is an independent cinema and they have some of the cheapest cinema tickets in the entire city they're usually around five pounds so you can go see a film there or if you prefer to watch something Outdoors right over there is a rooftop screen where you can see Cinema out in the outdoors it's called the rooftop film club they show films a couple of times a week when the weather is good so there you go got a couple more things you can do when you're in Peckham it's such a cool place that I'm so sad that more tourists don't come here such cool stuff going on here don't forget if you want lots more places to go in London that londoners love and maybe don't want to tell tourists sometimes grab our casual tourist guides you can find out more about them via the link in the description box of this video and if you want more tips for your London trip well we've got hundreds of videos you can click one of the boxes popping up right around me to watch one of those next

Channel: Love and London

Views: 161,011

Keywords: love and london, london, jess dante, jessica dante, visit london, london guide, london travel

Id: CZnuOIvT1LA

Length: 12min 22sec (742 seconds)

Published: Thu Sep 21 2023