Exploring Spitalfields
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Contrary to popular belief, Shoreditch is not just full of hipsters and over-priced cafes and bars. Although it has in the last twenty years or so gone through gentrification, it’s very multicultural and full of history. We got the Metropolitan line to Liverpool street and started our afternoon with lunch

Exploring Bermondsey
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Exploring Bermondsey

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We found ourselves in Bermondsey, near London Bridge and Borough, on Saturday having booked a table at Zucca for lunch – UPDATE: which has sadly now closed. It’s not an area we’ve ever really been to before so we were keen to explore it. Walking down Bermondsey Street on our way

Alexanderplatz in Berlin
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Apart from a stopover in Frankfurt airport en-route from London to South Africa many years ago (which doesn’t count, does it?), I’d never been to Germany. So, for my birthday in February I decided this was my destination of choice and my husband booked us a long weekend in Berlin