Hi everyone its Lauren. I've been saying for a while now that I've wanted to do a
little series of videos where I take you guys with me on various different walks
throughout different parts of London, so I'm really happy to say that that's what
we're going to be doing today! This first walk that I want to take you on is in
North London and we're going to be going from Kings Cross to Marylebone so I'm
just about to leave my house and I'm going to go for brunch with Jen Campbell
and she's going to be our tour guide, she's going to be taking us on a walk
along Regents Canal. So we're starting at Kings Cross in Granary Square, we're
going to be walking through Kentish Town, through Camden Town and then the canal
takes you through Regents Park and through Regents Park Zoo - London Zoo, you
can see the animals on either side of the canal. Then we're going to come down
through Regents Park and the plan is to end up in Daunt Books on Marylebone High
Street. This is a really pretty walk and there's lots of really fun things to see
and do on the way as well so hopefully we'll have a good time. It's sunny today
so that bodes well, and I hope you guys have a good fun coming along with us as
well and maybe if you are ever in London is something you can try out for
yourself!
So this is Granary Square behind me which is a really lovely location on the
canal, which has some really nice restaurants. To my left there's also the
House of Illustration which has a lovely shops full of really pretty prints I
can't show you inside unfortunately because they're closed this morning, and
then to my right is also the Kings Cross Theatre which is really cool and
it has a track train track running through the middle of the stage so
when they put on shows like The Railway Children they had an actual steam engine
onstage. So other restaurants you can go through here are Caravan and The Grain
Store, but today we are going to go to Dishoom which is an Indian
restaurant. They have lots of different venues around London not just in Kings
Cross, but they do amazing breakfasts like sausage naans and bacon naans and
curried eggs so let's go find Jen because I am hungry!
We've just been to Dishoom, which as Lauren has probably said is a great Indian restaurant
and it's really awesome because it used to be a warehouse where
the trains from Kings Cross were stored so it's really tall, it's this huge warehouse
Oh I didn't know that! I thought because it's Granary Square
I thought that's where they stored grains or something like from along the canal
I think they did in The Grain Store but Dishoom and Caravan used to be warehouses, so
Caravan is next door and is also this really awesome open space and but they
decided obviously real estate like primary real estate, now they store the
carriages outside London, so there's this huge space that's been developed around Kings Cross
which is where we're standing where they're building all kinds of stuff. So
now we're going to walk along Regents Canal When you come out and down onto
the canal you can turn left and walk all the way along to Canary Wharf and
then this way which is where we're going you can walk all the way along...actually I don't
know how far you can go because I've never gone to the end
Well we have walked all the way to Notting Hill before haven't we? Which is quite far
You can go further than that Lauren's like 'It was far!'
It was quite a long walk!
But this is my favourite walk in London, which is why I'm so glad Lauren has started this series, I'm like 'YES'
We can take you and show you because there are so many houses along
here that are so cute. It's a really lovely walk, so I'm going to show you first
off there's this house that I want to move into it reminds me of...who's the guy in the
railway children? Oh...Potts? It's like Mr. Potts'
house except it's not a railway station house it's a lock house
It does look like that yeah, it's so cute
This is a house I would dearly love to live in. It's so sweet
I feel like every house we see Jen's going to be like 'that's my favourite house'
I have so many houses that I just love
So this is Camden Market and there are two bookshops. We'll show them to you, this is the first one...
This - nitric ice cream! They make it using...what do you call it?
Nitrogen
Yes!
Anyway, best ice cream in London apparently!
So this is the front bit, this is the food market of Camden Market and if you
wanted to, there you can get a little canal boat that goes from Camden all the
way to Little Venice which is the really sweet ride it's a bit...'sweet ride' it sounds like
I'm talking about a car! It's a really nice thing to do, a bit touristy but it's really kind of cute
and then the second bookshop is down there, it's a secondhand bookshop we're
not going to go in it but if you want to know where it is it's next to the food
market
So you know how we said every house along this walk is Jen's favourite house?
This is my favourite street! So any of these houses!
Is that a thing, a canal street? Well it's kind of like the back of houses really isn't it?
each of them has a little boat and a tree house
I'm never going to be able to afford to live here but it's beautiful
This is the boat that I meant that you can get from Little Venice to Camden
We're just round the back of Regents Park Zoo now, so on either side of the canal there are some enclosures
Behind us there is the aviary I guess and on the left hand side there's going to be some African
hunting dogs and some warthogs. We're not in the zoo
we're walking past it I don't know how I feel about zoos in general
I know, me neither Perhaps that is for another video, not for right now
We're coming off the canal now, so we;re going up this bridge and into Regent's Park
People are punting, Lauren!
It's like being in Venice!
okay so we have come from here, somewhere over here and we walked along
the canal pat Kentish Town, to Camden Lock Market and then we walked down this way
along the canal, this is where the zoo is, crossed over here and we walked along here and we're
here. So we're going to go through the Queen Mary garden because they're very
Alice in Wonderland and really sweet and then we're going to come off onto Baker Street
and Marylebone Road and down Marelybone High Street and which is where Daunt Books is!
We're in the Queen's Gardens now we're not going to go past it but I
thought I would also mention that down this way is the open-air theatre, it's
open in the summer between from May and September normally and they it's really
really beautiful theatre, really green, lots of trees and the shows they
have on there a fantastic so if you are in London over the summer
I really recommend checking that out!
Down here are all the beautiful flowers and fountains
It's so hot I actually want to climb in one
Better not!
So we've had Jen's favourite houses, I think these are my favourite houses
Like a town house?
Yeah!
A taaan haaaas?
That's what I'd want, look at them! They're so beautiful
Have we found another favourite? No, no, I don't know if it's a favourite I just love
mews in London, they're really sweet so let's see if they've got any nice houses...
Look at them!
candy coloured!
Shall we go knock on some doors and be like 'are you selling?'
Because I can't afford it if you want to give it to me that would be nice
Hi guys, we're in Daunt Books in Marylebone and this is one of my favourites because as well as just being
very beautiful, over here they arrange the books by country so you can go to Japan
not literally, the section Japan and find all the travel guides but also all the Japanese
literature so if you're just interested in learning about different cultures you
don't need to know what author you're looking for, you can just go over here!
we're going to somewhere to eat now because I'm pretty tired
We are, I have a book though! Jen's bought a book!
But yeah I need food in my stomach
I think this walk overall have taken us... it's quarter past three now, when did we start
about half eleven after breakfast? Yeah about half eleven - quarter to twelve?
Yeah so we've been walking for about three hours now
Bear in mind that we have been stopping to film
So it'll take less time than that, probably an hour and a half
we've been really ambling around so I rekcon hour and a half to two hours maybe max?
so we're on James Street now I think we're on our way to Bond Street that's where we're finishing up
this walk. So thanks for joining us I've had a really nice, I've had a lovely time!
Thanks for taking us round Jen, you've been such
a good tour guide! Can I come round again?
Definitely, you can take us round the whole
of London if you want! Let us know if there's any other areas of London
that you'd like to see, or you'd like us to go to
and we'll see you next time, bye!