Of all the locations in the Globe to do some shopping, the UK has to be classified as one of the premier destinations. Its unparalleled placement in between USA and EU makes it a natural melting pot of panaches and its gorgeous capital, London, makes for some of the sweetest shopping for visitors.
Here we explore 4 places in London that you simply have to visit if you’re the shopping type.
Insider places to buy gifts.
Except for Christmas day, Camden Market, one of London’s lead favourite tourist destinations, places its mark daily, offering an marvelous range of shopping paraphernalia for those seeking something superb and funky to buy. Camden Market has been through quite a transformation over the years and each time I visit I am surprised just how much larger it gets. To mobilize to Camden Market you need to take the Northern Line Underground and get off at Camden Town. This then puts you right at the beginning of the market area (an alternative point, still on the Northern Line tube, is Chalk Farm or Mornington Crescent, about a 10 minute stroll). Camden Market is divided into a series of areas, each specializing in their own particular area. In Market Hall expect to feel artwork, prints, jewellery as well as other artistic and creative works for sale. While inside the Stables market just about anything goes: clothes, a world food area, and other handmade gifts. The shops that dot the high street is where you’ll find retro clothes, leather jackets and lots and lots of shoes! Camden opens in the morning from 10:00 and generally runs through to 1800. At which point you can choose to hop into any 1 of a number of bars, where you will find good music and a lively crowd. As the night draws in and the stomach starts to rumble, there’s a huge range of restaurants including Vitenamese, Mexican, Arabic, German, English in fact, Camden’s more of a micropod of World culture than it is a part of London, which is why should you come to London, you have to do at least a morning perusingaround the stands.
Shopping in Central London
There are 3 serious shopping experiences in the centre of London, close to Royal Hyde Park, where you can find a piece of the UK’s shopping history located. In times gone by the conventional department store allowed a family to go to a single store to buy a range of shopping items. Here are three of the most best-known.
Selfridges
You’ll find every type of product in the store from food, right the way through to toys, music. It’s housed in a wonderful historic building and they have an amazing oyster bar that has a full day service. If you’re a Londoner centre and can tolerate the slightly higher prices, you’d never really need to shop anywhere else for daily living.
Harrods
Again the department store of Harrods’s is in a marvelously ornate and decorative building, but with difference to Selfridges, Harrod’s good are notably more expensive.
Nearest Tube: Knightsbridge
Fortnum and Mason
Since 1707, this store has been providing a legendary picnic hamper and food service. Let’s think for a minute that you wanted to delight a summer open air concert in the summer months, you could turn up at Fortnum and Mason’s, and walk out with a perfect picnic hamper. Not just food, but the tablecloth, wineglasses and everything.
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