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Relocation to London: Camden Area and Regent Park

Friday, August 26th, 2011

As we are a blog about relocation to London, it’s important that we let you know about the neighborhoods so many of you Canadians moving to London end up selecting as a location to be living in London; Camden. Camden area is a terrific area of London suburb and has great amenities in the local area.

Camden is on the north end of London and bordering Camden is the Royal Regent’s Park. Regent’s Park has its own underground station on the Bakerloo line. This outstanding London treasure is 166 hectares (410 acres for you North Americans) and its rose garden is one of the most visited in all of London. The park has excellent sports facilities of which 100 acres of the park are dedicated to. It’s the largest outdoor sports area in London, for all of you moving to London with boys or girls into sports (or grown husbands looking for pickup games). Regent’s Park has the world’s first Zoo opened in 1848. The amenities of this London playground for families, couples, and singles is a perfect addition to an active lifestyle in which outdoors and exercise is a priority in your living in London. For the health conscious and the nature and theater lovers who are considering a relocation to London should contemplate living near this London treasure.

The Regent Parks Open Air Theatre is one of the most intimate seating arrangement of 1,240 people you will ever be a part of. Each summer beginning in May they put on the first of four productions that are provocative, dramatic, and very well done by the company of actors. Being in the final of this year’s four production now playing is likely of great interest to those Americans moving to London, it’s a Charles Gershwin’s’ “Crazy for You”.

For those of you living in London whose relocation to London is already complete, you have two weeks left to catch the production. Ending in just 15 days, Crazy for You is playing nightly at 7:45 p.m. and is an excellent evening outdoors enjoying something contemporary and immersing yourself in the arts a bit. It’s also a perfect date night destination J Gershwin’s always light and uplifting to the mood and spirit, a true legend of the glamorous age of Hollywood when productions were the largest form of entertainment in the entire world.

Check out your surroundings while living in London, your London relocation agent can forward or email you more information about the neighborhood of Camden, and we’ll be sure to give you more posts about it and the amenties living in London’s north end has to offer you. Just respond to this post’s comments if you care for us to send you example London apartment listings and average pricing in the area, oh and please include your name and email. With that I will leave you of a description of the Regent Park Open Air Theatre’s description on their website, having enjoyed shows there (yes on date night) myself with my significant other, I can tell you that I couldn’t describe it better myself:

Regent’s Park Open Air Theatre is the only permanent professional outdoor theatre in Britain. Its steeply raked auditorium is one of the largest in London with 1,240 seats, yet those who attend say it is one of the most intimate. Each night an incomparable atmosphere is created by the buzz of people enjoying their theatre going in every sense: people setting up hampers on the picnic lawn, filling their glasses with wine or drinking Pimms in the bar as the fairy lights twinkle in the trees.

Relocation to London: Camden Area and Regent Park

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London Locations: Camden

Tuesday, June 15th, 2010

A couple girlfriends of mine mentioned that they’re meeting up in Camden this afternoon to wander the markets, so I thought I’d give a shout-out.

If you hop the Northern Line to the Camden Town tube station, a brief walk toward the canal will take you past assorted colorful, eclectic urban shops and pubs (which play far better music than I ever get to hear in the more mainstream Kensington venues…while on the topic, might I recommend the Dublin Castle as an atmospheric pub with live music in back, the very stage where the band Madness got its start—and, yes, they had a lot more hits than just “Our House“! To call them a one-hit wonder is a myth…). Cross the canal to wander into the Camden Lock Market and, just beyond it, the Stables Market. What you’ll find here is a variety of clothing, jewelry, art, decor and whatnot—a much more alternative scene than you’ll find on the usual high streets—with an old London aesthetic as you walk on brick pavement amidst the industrial buidings of yesteryear. In the Stables Market is the multi-faceted Proud Camden, which encompasses art galleries and a low-key-by-day pub located within what were once actually stables for the horses that pulled the barges along the canal; by night, then, it becomes a live music venue with a more clubby ambiance. Another bar that comes highly recommended is the Ice Wharf, which has a spacious beer garden out on the water.

And this is random, but I recently learned of the spookishly named Camden Catacombs, a series of Victorian subterranean tunnels that run from Primrose Hill to Camden Lock; evidently, they were also used as stables for horses. Much to my chagrin, they are not accessible by the public, so my dreams of spelunking through Victorian London have been dashed…it’s still neat somehow knowing that they’re there, though

This is honestly an area that I need to explore more of myself, so when I do so (as well as hear back from how my friends’ day goes), I’ll give you the heads-up on more must-sees there. In the meantime, follow this link to the Best of Camden guide that details other markets to be had as well as the Camden Lock Village open on weekend days.

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London Moves Outdoors

Monday, April 12th, 2010

Aaaahhh…London has been rescuscitated back to life with the onset of real Spring weather. Hurray! I honestly have to laugh at myself and how much I comment on the weather here in our blog and on Twitter, Facebook, etc. Hopefully that’s not a sign of how boring I’m becoming—if it is, then it applies to everyone else I know here. I think talking about the weather is mandatory for local residents; you’ll see for yourself if and when you’re relocating to London.

The logic is as such: increasing duration of daylight + higher proportion of that daylight that is sunshine + warmer temperatures = an awakening of the senses, rotation of the wardrobe, and overall higher motivation to get out there and do everything worthwhile doing outdoors. I, for one, went for a wander yesterday with my husband over to Battersea Park, just south of the Thames from Chelsea. This substantial bit of green space gets overshadowed by more touristed parks like Kensington Gardens, Hyde Park, Green Park, and St. James’s Park, so I recommend it as a more local spot of tranquility. One can rent cycles, paddle boats, and row boats there, visit the children’s zoo and pagoda, play cricket, tennis, and other favorite sports, or just lie about on the flat expanses or little hills and watch the dogs dart about at full speed while the herons stand perfectly still. Not too far a walk toward the main roundabout is a relaxed pub named The Masons Arms that offers a healthy menu, unlike most pubs, and provides a low-key place to chat or read amid good music and local artwork. The walk across Albert Bridge in itself is a treat (though mind the construction that is presently diverting motor traffic).

I’m also in the midst of brainstorming our next London Living social, tentatively scheduled for later this month. Sunshine and ever-greener trees makes me yearn for pints in a proper biergarten, so some possibilities I’ve offered up to our Londonistas are the The Spaniards Inn in Hampstead and Stein’s Bavarian Restaurant in Richmond for a chance to visit non-central areas with great charm. For something more central, there is Henry J. Bean’s on the Kings Road in Chelsea. I actually just hung out there on Saturday after the Grand National horse race; while the interior of the venue as well as its menu are blatantly American-inspired, it does have a large and atmospheric beer garden in the back. Another hot spot you might hit for enjoying your libations out of doors would be the Ice Wharf in Camden, located right on the canal—this one comes highly recommended by my colleague

Whatever meets your fancy outside this Spring, make sure your indoor space does as well by entrusting your London flat-search to London Relocation Ltd.

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