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if you're not into losing money on
pointless crap then I'm gonna tell you
the tourist traps that you need to avoid
when you're visiting London by the way
if you're new here I'm Jess and I make
videos for people who are coming to
visit London and I promise they're
usually a lot more positive than this
one so last few square is pretty much
where a good taste goes to the height in
my opinion it's lines with a bunch of
the UK's worst to change selling through
that's not good and also like 15 times
the price that it should be
there's also M&M worlds here and I don't
know what anyone would come to London
and go to M&M the world has nothing to
do with London or the UK lots of people
come to London and want to experience
traditional UK food which pubs are the
best place to do that at but some of the
pubs around the most touristy areas of
London are not very good they're
overpriced and the food is really not
very good at all
so how do spot those places is if they
have the words authentic and traditional
plastered all over the place it's kind
of one of those things that if you have
to say it it's not actually true if you
want a really nice pub with really good
food I would suggest venturing out of
the most touristy areas in central
London somewhere of the neighbourhood
iary is like Notting Hill or Hackney and
you'll find lots of great neighbourhood
pubs there in some touristy areas of
London you will see these rickshaws that
you can get they used to not be
regulated so what would happen was
people would get into the rickshaw go
for like a 10-minute ride and then the
driver would demand a huge sum of money
at the end of the ride I think they're
more regulated now so that doesn't
usually happen however you just really
look like a silly tourist when you get
into one of those and they're still very
expensive so avoid going in one of those
near almost all of the major tourist
attractions are these huge souvenir
shops that are just filled with frankly
crap that's made in China and will fall
apart on you and just like two months so
instead I would recommend going to a
place like we built the city which is an
alternative suit
shop and they source all their items
from local artists you can also go to
maybe a department store and get some
tea or you could do some shopping while
you're here and pick out something that
you'll wear for years to come and think
about your London trip okay we're not in
Hill now and there's a souvenir shop
here that looks very similar to the book
shop that's in the movie and on Hill it
even named itself with the same name but
it actually has absolutely nothing to do
with the movie and rather around the
corner is the site of where the book
shop that did inspire the movie was
however the original owners closed it
down in 2011 and then was bought by a
company and they didn't actually even
film the movie in the book shop so
that's just a heads up for you
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now London has a lot of legitimate
street performers many of which had to
audition to be able to busk in the area
that they're in but everyone said well
you'll run across these guys that are
dressed up as cheesy characters or
painted as lifelike statues and then
when you go up to take a picture with
them they yell at you after that you
have to give them money so just avoid
taking pictures with any of these guys
unless you want to get yelled at there
are a few copies and food spots around
London that have become very popular
pretty much just because they make for a
very good Instagram photo but the truth
is that some of these places are one
either very expensive or they're just
have pretty substandard food or drinks
and they're not actually very special so
this place behind me is an example it's
called PEGI portion and you can almost
any time of the day find people queuing
up just to take a photo in front of the
door or to sit down and take some photos
of some cute cupcakes but it's kind of a
pretty standard place and it's pretty
expensive okay next up I think that you
should watch my video about the tourist
attractions that I think are totally
overrated and you can do that by
clicking the box that's popping up right
below me all your shop here that looks
like it was a shop here that's right
well I huge sum of money mummy