• Notting Hill
  • ✔ Portobello Road Market (Saturdays 9am) - Start at Ladbroke (Holland exit on tube) The famous Portobello Green Canopy is where you can find the permanent Portobello collective of fashion designers, vintage collectors.
• Camden Town
  • ✔ Camden High Street - kitchy tourist shops
  • ✔ Camden Lock Market - end of the Camden High Street
  • ✔ Stables Market - located along the Chalk Farm Road
  • ✔ All Ages Records (camden), Rock n Roll Rescue, a punk-rock charity shop
  • ✔ Regent Park and Regent Water canal walk (Little Venice to Camden Lock) + Little Venice
• SOHO:
  • ✔ Regent St & Oxford St & Bond street shops
  • ✔ Little Chinatown
  • ✔ Carnaby Street - (car-less brand name shops) + head into Covent Gardens (Wow Retro)
  • ✔ Piccadilly Circus (Times Square-ish w/ lots of Broadway shows)
  • Leicester Square Theater
• Chelsea
  • ✔ Kings Road shopping - from Sloane Square in the east to Fulham in the west
• South Bank
  • ✔ Tate Modern Museum
  • ✔ Borough Market W-Sat (vegetable market)
• Brixton
  • Brixton Market, Brixton Village, Pop Brixton – three labyrinth-like indoor markets next to each other – are crammed with boutique shops, cafes, bars and restaurants
  • Electric Ave
• Peckham
  • lined with video arcade bars, cult nightclubs and street food pop-ups, a breeding ground for south-east London’s burgeoning creative scene while staying true to its multicultural roots. (Shops on Bellenden Road - The Museum of Contemporary Art)
• Dalston (Metro Retro) + Hackney (Paper Dress, House of Vintage ) + Hackney Wick - cool neighborhood - features markets like Chatsworth Road Market, Mare Street Market, Broadway Flea Market (Saturdays), Wynd's Museum of Curiosities
• ✔ Covent Garden
  • ✔ WALK: Monmouth St thru Seven Dials (particuarly in Seven Dials, is home to many great thrift shops) to Floral Street to Neal Street to Covent Gardens Markets (Jubilee Market, etc)
• ✔ Hyde Park + Buckingham Palace
• ✔ Big Ben + London Bridge + Parliament
• ✔ Westminster Abbey
• ✔ Shoreditch & Brick Lane
  • ✔ Old Spitalfields Market
  • ✔ Brick Lane Vintage Market + Columbia Road Flower Market (sundays) + Nordic Poetry, Atika, House of Vintage, GoodHood
  • ✔ Brick Lane Street Market on Sundays
  • ✔ BARS: happiness forgets, nightjar, rolling stock, the bridge bar, old blue last, worship St whistling stop, queen of hoxton, glory queer cabaret
• Maltby Food Market

BARS:

• Brilliant Corners
• Dalston Super Store (dalston)
• Albi (dalston)
• ✔ 100 Club punk club
• Roundhouse (camden - venue)
• Blackheart (camden)
• Garageland (camden - monthly)
• Devonshire Arms (camden)
• ✔ Elephants Head (camden) - good Dj chill neighborhood pub
• Proud Camden (camden)
• Jazz Cafe (camden)
• Her Upstairs (camden) queer friendly
• Electric Ballroom (camden - djs - venue)
• Underworld (camden - venue)
• Koko (camden - venue)
• ✔ Electrowerkz (slimelight goths saturday go to second door not first club)
• ✔ Crobar (soho) cool little metal bar
• ✔ Bradley's Spanish Bar (soho)
• ✔ Dream Bag Jaguar Shoes (shoreditch) local bar
• Buster Mantis Jazz Club - Steam Down Party
• Dive Bars

OTHER:

• Vintage
• ✔ Electric Cinema - Nottinghill
• ✔ Flipside Walking Tour
• ✔ Screen on the Green cinema (Clash, Sex Pistols and Buzzcocks 1976)
• ✔ Highgate Cemetery
• Kew Gardens
• ✔ Jack the Ripper Museum
• ✔ Trafalgar Square
• Circolo Popolare - beautiful italian restaurant
• Hunterian Medical Museum

MUSEUMS:

• ✔ Tate Modern (free) + Tate Britain
• ✔ The British Museum
• ✔ Portrait Gallery
• Queer Britain is a museum of British LGBTQ history
• Natural History Museum
• National Gallery

SHOPPING:

• Harrods Dept Store

LONDON PARKS:

• See the pelicans in St James’s Park
• Greenwich Park and Richmond Park have deer
• Clissold Park has goats
• Holland Park has peacocks.

GLASGOW:

• BARS/Food: cathouse, flying duck, nice n sleazy, sold rock cafe, rufus t, maggie mays, sub club, hydro, garage, cult rock club, SWG3, classic grand, flat 0/1, O2 ABC, garage, mono, king tuts wah wah hut, the shed, old hairdresser
• ✔ City Center - pedestrian shopping
• ✔ Merchant City Shops + Glasgow Cathedral + Necropolis Cemetery
• ✔ Stereo vegan cafe and music venue (saw deerhoof) LOVED
• ✔ Mono cafe, venue, record store LOVED
• ✔ Dee of Trongate - mod shop
• ✔ Pollok Country Park to see the coos (cows)
• ✔ Finnieston neighborhood (hidden lane little shops alcove) - mostly little restaurants - cute small strip. Cran Cafe!!!
• ✔ Clyde Walkway and ride bikes down river LOVED (bike to left - beautiful foresty path - can pack lunch and make day of it)
• ✔ Sharmanka Kinetic Theater - vintage puppets show - LOVED
• The 78th in Finnieston and Hug & Pint
• Museums: kelvinggrove, Gallery of Modern Art
• NOTES: sleepy city but lovely like the 90s!, kids owning all the cool spots, a lot of places that are mixed bar/venue/restaurant, stay in city center, seagulls rule here, can do highlands tour from here

EDINBURGH:

• ✔ Fringe Fedtival: Janeane Garofalo, Reginald D Hunter, Hot Brown Honey Group
• ✔ Princes Street Shops & Old Town
• ✔ Edinburgh Castle
• ✔ Royal Mile (littered with shops and restaurants in the Old Town)
• ✔ Camera Obscura and World Illusions
• ✔ Hike Arthur’s Seat - Holyrood Park (45 min to summit - get map)
• Edinburgh Underground Valults
• CLUBS: Cabaret Voltaire, Bramble, Caves, Bannermans Metal Bar, Voodoo Rooms, In Leith: Sofis, Roseleaf, Western Bar (corner with lap dancing bars)
• Highland cattle at Swanston Farm - for coos
• Museums: Museum of Scotland, National Portrait Gallery, Dynamic Earth Science Museum
• ✔ VEGAN: Henderson’s, Pumpkin Brown, Mammas American Pizza

SCOTTISH HIGHLANDS:

• North Coast 500 Route
• ✔ A82 drive
• ✔ GlenCoe
• ✔ Fort William
• ✔ Portree in Isle of Skye
• ✔ Iverness / Loch Ness
• Fairy Pools
• Loch Lamond
• The Trossachs, a fairytale woodlands
• Camusdarach beach nearby, mcgregor's fav place
• Ben A’an and Loch Katrine

DAYS:

• SIGHTINGS: Crew of party-ers doing whippets, black white girl friendships all over, old people out singing and dancing, polish goth girl at slimelight, 70 something djs at pub wearing Sex Pistols tee
• 1. tate modern art museum, borough market, walked brick lane and shoreditch
• 2. punk rock walking history tour, Piccadilly Circus, Smith’s cover band at oldest club, Camden gardens pub with skinhead couple and two oldest djs in the world playing their 45s, old folks and poc all dancing and hugging each other at pub
• 3. woke up at 3pm, brick lane shopping, pet shop boys royal opera house, 11pm Thai dinner, slimelight goth party after one failed attempt and a lame soul party
• 4. walked brick lane markets, harrods, buckingham walk via hyde park, mcqueen doc at art theater
• 5. walked covent gadens and all of camden town, night drinks in shoreditch
• 6. walked around
• 7. portrait gallery and british museum, hyde park, couple bars
• 8. highgate cemetery, little venice, abbey road, regent park canal walk, vegan festival, dinner with imani, camille, and Bay Area girl, drinks at Ace
• Head to Scotland. stayed in small airbnb driving from Inverness to Portree on isle of Skye
• Isle of Skye loop: fairy glen, falls, etc. every hotel b&b booked so had to drive 4 hours to Glasgow. Arrived 1am stayed in crappy overpriced place.
• Glasgow: Mcitizen hotel, food and craft and street music festival, womens bike race, swg3 warehouse market, flying duck vegan bar, metal night at cathouse, industrial night at nice n sleazy
• cathedral, necropolis, watched trainspotting movies
• Bike ride, cafe stereo, Finnieston strip, flat 0/1 bar
• Mono cafe, pollock Park, puppet show, Deerhoof at Stereo (analyzing people’s responses to a precarious beer on a ledge by exit door as show lets out)
• Edinburgh - (Hotel: Hub on Rose St) street roaming and fringe festival events, metal bar, and hiphop bar
• Edinburgh - arthur's seat, portrait gallery, fringe: hot brown honey, reginald hunter

BRISTOL:

• PC Quinton - stops all the cabbies and harasses them
• Christmas Steps
• Vegan India
• Stokes Croft and St Paul’s area