STORY "London" - Chapter Six

Shops and Eating

The most famous shop in London _some people say the most famous in the world_ is Harrods, in Knightsbridge. It opened in 1849.

Oxford Street has many big shops _Selfridges, Marks and Spencer, John Lewis, Debenhams. There are always lots of people looking at the shops here, but at Christmas thousands more people come to see the wonderful Christmas lights and to buy things for their friends and family for Christmas.

Charing Cross Road is famous for its bookshops. There arc of them, and they sell old and new books. One of the oldest and most famous is Foyles. It has thousands of books, but it can sometimes be very difficult to find the book you want!

Covent Garden was once a big food market, but now it has lots of small shops and cafes and there arc street performers to watch.

There are two very famous markets in London. Petticoat Lane market (open on Sundays) is in Middlesex Street, and is a good place to buy cheap clothes and things for the home. At the market in Portobello Road (open on Saturdays) you can buy old clocks, old chairs and tables, and hundreds of the other things…and eating.

You can find food from nearly every country in the world in London. In Soho, in the West End of London (see map on pages 18 and 19), you can eat food from Italy, India, China, Japan, Greece, and lots more palces.

There are also thousands of pubs in the city. In many pubs you can eat as well as drink.

Or why not have some English fish and chips? They are cheap, and good to eat. Or you can have ‘tea’ at the Ritz in Piccadilly, or at the Savoy Hotel in the Strand.

_to be continued