The Real London
South Kazakhstan
State Pedagogical Institute
Presentation
Shymkent 2013
The most vibrant areas of London
Covent Garden (Westminster)
- Covent Garden is located in the eastern part
of London's Westminster. Once there was a pasture of Westminster Abbey,
and later vegetable market.
- Market over time has grown in size and moved
to the other side of the Thames, and in its place arose trade stalls
and boutiques oriented to tourists.
- Covent Garden is also known for its mimes and
street performers that gather crowds of spectators with fun ideas. Here
you can meet and acrobats, and jugglers and clowns, and musicians, and
other talented people. Moreover, the crowd not only looks, but also
gladly give a trifle funny show, and then wandering talents are really
able to entertain and amuse.
- Covent Garden is known as the Theatreland and , the streets of which 40 theaters are serious
struggle for the audience. Besides the eponymous Opera House, which
is the main attraction of the area, centered around the main theaters
of London. Therefore, in the evening at Covent Garden theater-focused,
for whom going to the restaurant before or after the show began with
tradition.
Camden
- Camden is one of the northern districts of London.
This eccentric area with its own personality. It is located to the north
of Westminster and the City, between High Holborn and Hampstead Heath park.
- Camden Town, the heart of the region - is a world
underground. There is still alive the spirit of alternative movements.
On the streets of Camden every other pedestrian - is goth, hippie, punk or emo.
- This part of town was not always so. Bohemians began to move to Camden
in the mid XX century, in the pursuit of low-cost housing.
- Camden is interesting for its architecture: Victorian
houses with wrought-iron balconies and colored plaster amusing contrast
with each other.
- On the territory of the Camden Town Regent's Canal
runs through which area is jokingly called "Little Venice."
The channel can prokatitcya boat or just take a walk along the beach. This will
at least temporarily escape the city hustle and bustle. After Camden
- this is not the most quiet area of the city. Besides eternal revelers and revelers who
flock to the evening numerous pubs and restaurants in Camden noise even
trains. Railway communication is developed well, here is the international
St Pancras Station.
Popular London attractions, a kind of museum of Panic
Room, London Dungeon is an exhibition of torture and the horrors of
the Middle Ages.
To date, the museum "London Dungeon" combines
special effects, live actors and play sets to reproduce the gloomy atmosphere
of the Middle Ages.
You will walk through the dark streets of London,
as they were in the time of the plague. The museum is located in the
ground. The complete absence of windows and soft lighting make the atmosphere
particularly scary and creepy.
Look forward to the world's largest mirror labyrinth,
familiarity with maniacs medieval London and terrible trip in the dark.
Entertainment is not for the faint hearted!
Soho (Westminster)
- SoHo - perhaps the most colorful
and vibrant quarter of London. It is the center of nightlife, the area
of pubs, restaurants and discos. He is a member of Westminster and is
located in the heart of the city.
- Life does not cease in almost never. This is where the divergent fashion
absolutely wild things at a particular moment. Jazz, folk, rock, hippies,
free love, the sexual revolution, drugs - all this alternately or simultaneously
sweeping across Soho. However, the area is not today become calm. Numerous
night clubs and pubs full of visitors and music.
Over time, SoHo has become a regular
sight in London, here come the artists, writers, journalists and adventurers.
The streets of Soho are more civilized, but without losing their individuality
hooligan. Here there are restaurants to suit every taste, recently started
to appear in the Soho offices and secular clubs closed.
London is a city-reality, London
is a city of dreams ...