What to do best when visiting London, is planning a beer crawl with your friends or family. Micro breweries are popping out and gaining more popularity since ever. We brought a visit to Walthamstow E17, to experience the Blackhorse Beer…
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Spending a day in lively district Dalston
London characterizes a lot of cool neighborhoods where trendy young creatives settle down to enjoy the vibrant nightlife, vintage shops and quirky cafes. We already visited a number of them, such as Tooting, Peckham and Brixton. But another area that…
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Brixton, a cultural district in South London
A good friend of mine from Holland has been living together with her husband in England for a couple of years now. Recently they have moved to one of London’s trendiest neighborhoods: Brixton. For us now even more reason to…
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A walking guide through Camden Town
London is known for its many neighborhoods, different cultures and various atmospheres. Each district feels different and has its own characteristics. That makes this city so special. It’s still so great to get to know this enormous metropolis together with…
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Tooting is becoming hip, hot and happening
When I lived in the Netherlands, I was already interested in the transition of so-called power districts and involved in some spatial projects that influenced the revitalization of such areas. Mostly unattractive back neighborhoods but with the potential to become an…
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A visit to creative district Hackney
In London you can easily walk around in one of the many neighborhoods for a day while still getting the feeling that you haven’t seen everything. It’s lovely to explore all those ‘tiny cities‘ in this big London Town. In…
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Strolling around the streets of Shoreditch
London has several neighborhoods. Districts that are fully in bloom (and expensive) such as Kensington, Notting Hill and Chelsea. But also neighborhoods that are ‘upcoming’, like Peckham that I wrote about earlier. In between you also have neighborhoods that were…
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Richmond Upon Thames
If we have visitors from the Netherlands, we would like to show our new living environment by taking a nice walk. Earlier we followed the Thames Path in Chiswick with my parents. This time we decided to follow the same…
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Down by the riverside
Last week my parents visited us in London. We live just three weeks in Chiswick, so there is still a lot to discover. The near vicinity is well known to us, but we did not know the more peaceful surroundings…
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Upcoming Area Peckham
In London you have many neighbourhoods just outside the city center, which shows a lot of decay and vacancy. In such neighborhoods there is often space for experimentations and temporary programs. Interventions are being implemented for the short term, to…
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