Guidebook for Greater London
Entertainment & Activities
50 seater Cinema, with comfy chairs and small, social setting. It's like having a giant movie screen in your living room.
128 preporuka/e lokalaca
Lexi Cinema
194b Chamberlayne Rd50 seater Cinema, with comfy chairs and small, social setting. It's like having a giant movie screen in your living room.
RSA House
8 John Adam StStimulating, free public lectures on politics, economics and culture. Great brain food.
Within 10 mins of my flat, and for those visitors who are more spiritual, Brahma Kumaris is a Buddhist centre which also offers a programme of talks which are completely free. Very peaceful centre open to all.
Brahma Kumaris World Spiritual University
65 - 69 Pound LnWithin 10 mins of my flat, and for those visitors who are more spiritual, Brahma Kumaris is a Buddhist centre which also offers a programme of talks which are completely free. Very peaceful centre open to all.
Wonderful garden centre with a huge range of in and outdoor plants, pots, garden furniture and a cafe in a conservatory. Staff are friendly and knowledgeable.
67 preporuka/e lokalaca
Clifton Nurseries
5A Clifton VillasWonderful garden centre with a huge range of in and outdoor plants, pots, garden furniture and a cafe in a conservatory. Staff are friendly and knowledgeable.
Shopping
Portobello Road
Portobello RoadA market with a heart and a long, local history.
Borough Market
Borough High StreetFood market supreme, for all foodies, everywhere.
Elegant shopping centre where you can spend time and money on all the major global brands. Take bus 266, outside Willesden Green underground station, straight there.
93 preporuka/e lokalaca
Brent Cross Shopping Centre
Prince Charles DriveElegant shopping centre where you can spend time and money on all the major global brands. Take bus 266, outside Willesden Green underground station, straight there.
Arts & Culture
Breathtakingly beautiful Hindu temple which looks as if it belongs to a city in India, but instead has been placed in the centre of concrete, residential, grey London. Single 20 min bus ride from my flat, and the contrast it makes with urban London is too startling to miss.
58 preporuka/e lokalaca
BAPS Shri Swaminarayan Mandir
Pramukh Swami RoadBreathtakingly beautiful Hindu temple which looks as if it belongs to a city in India, but instead has been placed in the centre of concrete, residential, grey London. Single 20 min bus ride from my flat, and the contrast it makes with urban London is too startling to miss.
Some people gush over the treasures. Some people loathe the British colonial history which pillaged those treasures. I just love the building. The atrium alone, is worth the effort to go see. You will spend all day, and still that will not be enough.
92 preporuka/e lokalaca
British Museum (Stop W)
Some people gush over the treasures. Some people loathe the British colonial history which pillaged those treasures. I just love the building. The atrium alone, is worth the effort to go see. You will spend all day, and still that will not be enough.
Free tours of the collections, interesting touring exhibitions and installations and a massive, democratic ethos running through the space.
2008 preporuka/e lokalaca
Tate Modern
BanksideFree tours of the collections, interesting touring exhibitions and installations and a massive, democratic ethos running through the space.
A library, but also so much more. Within 5 mins walk of my flat, you can surf the net, read the newspapers, print your documents, chat online, study with actual books, but also go to the gallery, performance space, meeting room and cafe.
10 preporuka/e lokalaca
The Library at Willesden Green
95 High RdA library, but also so much more. Within 5 mins walk of my flat, you can surf the net, read the newspapers, print your documents, chat online, study with actual books, but also go to the gallery, performance space, meeting room and cafe.
Essentials
Sainsbury's Local
164 Uxbridge Rd5 mins walk
Willesden Green Station
Walm LaneKensal Rise Station (Stop KH)
Brondesbury Park Station The Avenue (Stop S)
Parks & Nature
Wild, huge and utterly beautiful park with 3 lakes you can swim in. Blissfully cold in the sweltering temperatures of Summer (occasionally achieved in London), but there are mad people who swim in the autumn and winter, too.
1215 preporuka/e lokalaca
Hampstead Heath
Wild, huge and utterly beautiful park with 3 lakes you can swim in. Blissfully cold in the sweltering temperatures of Summer (occasionally achieved in London), but there are mad people who swim in the autumn and winter, too.
Roundwood Park
Queen's Park Station
Gladstone Park Gardens, London NW2, Ujedinjeno Kraljevstvo
Getting Around
Take the riverboat up to Greenwich and back - great way to see London and River Thames.
Westminster Pier station
Take the riverboat up to Greenwich and back - great way to see London and River Thames.
Drinks & Nightlife
Mainly an elegant French style pub, but also a nightclub on friday/saturdays. Buzzy atmosphere. Chance of bumping into locally based celebrities. Excellent food. Great staff.
243 preporuka/e lokalaca
Paradise by way of Kensal Green
19 Kilburn LnMainly an elegant French style pub, but also a nightclub on friday/saturdays. Buzzy atmosphere. Chance of bumping into locally based celebrities. Excellent food. Great staff.