OK welcome to London this is the third time I've started this live stream I'am having
real trouble getting a connection here I did start just down there just down there at Farringdon
station there is just so many people its lunch time there is quite a lot of people so its
hard to get good phone coverage and also the roads here although they are not narrow they
are dominated by high rise buildings not even that high but yeah as you can see the little
lanes and alleys its quite difficult to get service its also raining I'am here for work
I'am going to see a man about a dog I thought I'd share with you a a part of the city you
probably won't see much tourists don't come this far out I'am in Smithfield yeah the meat
market here is its open right now but it will be running down its really it starts ridiculously
early in the morning but yeah as you can see lunch time this city is really this part of
the city is really busy Monday to Friday its like a ghost town at weekends its especially
busy right now because its lunch time everyone is heading out of the office to get some lunch
although it is raining it might not look it well you might see some spots of rain on the
screen in a moment but yeah it is raining trust me hopefully it won't effect the video
too much hopefully this won't cut out again as I start moving down there it was yeah it
cut out twice this road is a little more open I'am actually heading down to Clerkenwell
Road there is an interesting very old part of the city that I'll share with you there
the thing is with these parts of the city because I work here I've worked I've been
coming here all my working life for me its not that interesting because I've been coming
here for years and see it every day but I guess what other people see other people might
find it more interesting than I do because they've never seen this thing this part of
the city before but yeah there is some amazing old buildings here we will head down to one
of the old entrances to the city so yeah Smithfield meat market there but yeah we are still very
central if you head down there you'll be at the river in five minutes walk along the river
for 20 minutes you'll come to Big Ben it you head to the other end if you head to Clerkenwell
Road down to Fleet street walk up Fleet Street for 20 minutes your in Covent Garden jump
on a Tube bus or in a taxi 5 minutes and your in the very centre of London its mainly offices
out here there is quite a few about a decade ago quite a few people cottoned on to it because
it was relatively inexpensive so people started turning a lot of the buildings into apartments
but that got stopped thats better so yeah everyone is out enjoying lunch and there seems
to be a lot of cigarette breaks going on but there is an old gate here which I walk through
all the time to go and see my man about the dog its about its at least 500 years old well
the gates its been rebuilt a number of times but it was the entrance to the priory of the
knights of St John 500 years ago just make it out there yeah that gate way was the entrance
to the priory of the knights of St John which you probably know today as kind of a subsidiary
of it some 500 or so years later is the St John's ambulance this is where it began and
this is the old gateway to it check out this there is loads of these little alleyways down
here that link the streets because otherwise you have to walk all the way around pretty
handy to shelter from the rain sorry both of us won't fit down there passing alley can't
pass with an umbrella but yeah check out this gate what always makes me laugh is the size
of the doors people were obviously a little bit shorter 500 years ago that one is not
so bad check that out although it might have been a window but it looks like a door way
oh no it is a door way because there is one on the other side with a door still in it
but yeah today its a museum I think its been a number of things including a pub over the
past few centuries rain its getting pretty bad there is some great restaurants out this
side as well just off Clerkenwell road Clerkenwell social there in front of us there well there
is the modern pantry next to it in that town house is the Zetter town house the Zetter
town house is a cool hotel and its got an amazing cocktail bar on the ground floor there
is some cool shops out here as well some art and design shops there is a printing shop
here I was so impressed by the letterpress printing I bought a whole letterpress business
I had to ship it from Scotland and it is so time consuming I wanted just to make the inserts
for my products but its so time consuming I haven't got around to making them but its
on the cards but yeah I had to ship a whole letterpress business down from Scotland shipping
cost a fortune alone Workshop coffee Workshop coffee there amazing coffee shop do food and
drink as well maybe I should pop in there the rain is getting pretty bad but yeah that
passing alley we were looking at where the lady was trying to get past me with the umbrella
the other end of it is just here its just there next to Sainsbury's so yeah if your
in the offices down there you can cut through to get to Sainsbury's get some lunch toiletries
whatever without having to walk all the way around especially when its raining like today
but yeah check out Clerkenwell Road the whole watch industry London's watch industry used
to be up here its virtually all gone now Hatton Garden if you head down there Hatton Garden
London's Jewellery trade home of London's jewellery trade is down there about five minutes
down there let me show you the little court yard Zetter is in and try and cross the road
right I've got no umbrella the rain is getting pretty heavy lets give you a little clean
OK typical British summer weather its the end of July warm and raining but yeah check
out the letter press printing shop Marby & Elm yeah it looks cool but I could never afford
to well I couldn't justify the expense of having people its quite a time consuming process
doing the letter press so I wouldn't have been able to justify paying people to do produce
my insert cards for products in that way so I just bought the whole business but its a
bit more involved that I expected its not just like pushing print on the laptop but
yeah check out the Zetter on this cobbled street yeah in that door way there a boutique
hotel and cool cocktail bar the modern pantry there is great for lunch too right I'am going
to go and see my man and I hope you enjoyed this little look maybe a part of London that
is a little bit off the beaten its very central but a little bit off the beaten track you
probably won't get to see and is it worth trekking out here to see a gateway yeah that
there is the St John's gate there is probably lots of information about it on the internet
just down there that is I think that is Blackfriars Road and then one block up is Hatton Garden
right thanks for watching see you in the next video Toodles! I'll leave you with this parting
shot of two very I guess archetypal London pieces of street furniture post box toilet
I mean phone box right Toodles!