Jaunted Embedded Travel Guides: Saarf London Rocks
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 :: South London
Spare a thought for south of the river.
South London has a bit of an image problem. Which is half fair, half not. Granted, there are a higher concentration of shitholes south of the river, but there are also a few pockets of cool which do cool, well, just a bit better than north London. Probably something to do with being a bit more real. God, did I just say that?
Anyway, here's the beef on two of south London's brighter lights. Post-modern indie kids, salt of the earth pound-a-pinters, pierced rebels, champagne socialists and a pinch of peaked-cap ghetto chic make Greenwich and New Cross south-east London's answer to Camden and Shoreditch.
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Start the night at Greenwich's axis, the
Admiral Hardy; an old wood-set maritime bar in one of the corners of the famous indoor market. Next stop the Bar de Musée (17 Nelson Rd), where things get a little more genteel and candle-lit. One more at the
Greenwich Union microwbrewery- I'd go with the resident loopy-juice, the raspberry beer (pitched at 6%, but certainly stronger. I should know, I used to work in the brewery). Then onwards, and downwards.
New Cross is something like Greenwich's scruffy little brother. Goldsmiths College and its never-ending hordes of arty types has made New Cross a slightly cultish indie neighbourhood, spawning bands like
Athlete and
Bloc Party over the last few years. Current saarf-east Landan (in the vernacular) up-and-comers are
Ashok and
Jack Penate, the new darling of the London indie circuit.
The two best spots to get messy are a few doors down from eachother. The
Live Bar favours a more expensively shirted clientele, flavoured by a bit of bling and a penchant for R'n'B. The
Bubblegum Club was once (and still feels like) somebody's basement. An old bloke in a vest serves drinks in plastic cups as the DJ throws out indie-electro crowd-pleasers to as many people who can fit on the tiny, sweaty dancefloor.
Outisde the Admiral Hardy
Outside the Greenwich Union
Inside Live Bar[Photos:
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Live Bar]
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