Jaunted Embedded Travel Guides: My Back Yard
Jaunted Embedded Travel Guides: London 2007
We are constantly searching for the most timely and useful travel information on locations around the world. We have always found that boots on the ground is a great way to sift through the marketing clutter and bring you the travel tips, information, and opinions you crave. However, now it is time to kick it up a notch. First, we are searching the world for folks who can take you on a field trip of their "backyard." When we find these folks, we then embed them into their local travel scene and ask them to be our eyes and ears out in the field.
We are expecting the same sort of grainy video, choppy sentences, and snapshot photos that you are use to seeing from embeds. The rub is, at the end of the day we should be left with a backyard travel guidebook like no other.
Our first embed is Benji Lanyado of London, UK. He is a budget travel columnist for the Guardian Newspaper in the UK. He also is the fearless leader of Youngin Europe, so expect his guide to skew young, but not that young, we intend to keep this thing legal. He lives in London and enjoys ranting about football.
Now that you have all the particulars, sit back and enjoy the trip.
London :: Stroud Green
Home sweet home.
I'll let you into a little secret. Nobody really "knows" London. Essentially, it's a sprawling mêlée of corners- you can get to know a couple, but there's always a few nooks on the other side of the room you're yet to explore. So then, perhaps the best a Londoner can hope for is to get their head round where they live.
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Which brings me to Stroud Green. In brief- SG, as it's known (to me), is a small district of North-East-Central London sitting in between the ruff-round-the-edges Finsbury Park and the flagrantly middle-class freelancer's haven of Crouch End. Which basically sums it up- two parts urban scruff, three parts up-and-coming hipsterville. Last week a vast Rastafarian chap crossed my path on the way to the tube, only to serenade me with the BeeGees' `How Deep is Your Love'. Nuff said.
The highlights?
The Triangle is a Moroccan souk-style hideyhole with a top fusion menu, recently lauded by Time Out as one of
"the most original venues in North London." If that's all a bit fancy for you,
Molens (24 Stroud Green Rd) serves up the best salt beef sandwiches in the area. For a bit of DIY munching, head to
Woody's at 175 Stroud Green Rd for more feta, olives and cold cuts than you could shake a Greek at.
And for a booze? The
Faltering Fullback is SG's resident indie hive, with a large barn-like backroom and a tasty beer garden. Then, of course, there's always the
Old Dairy, a large converted dairy (the clue is in the name) lined by ye olde bovine-themed murals. I say `always' because I live next door. Do have a look at
my map of Stroud Green, on Google's snazzy new MyMaps feature.
Talking of North London, read a smashing article by the G-Diddy on two local heroes
here.
Woody's:
The Triangle:
The Faltering Fullback:
Old Dairy:
[Photos:
benjilanyado]
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