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Beside Paris and New York, London is presumably the biggest paradise for shopping friends. With more than 30.000 shops of different branches and types, London is a jewel in the world of fashion and beauty. Indeed, visitors of the fascinating metropolis are confronted with an overwhelming range of goods but also with a tremendous height of prices, especially for electronic equipment, clothes and music CDs. Nevertheless, there are still bargains to be hunted; many shops hold sales at different times during the year.
Some sectors are concentrated in separate quarters of the city. London’s main shopping areas centre around Oxford Street and Regents Street. Old and New Bond Street are home to numerous designer boutiques and galleries. Tottenham Court Street is known for its electronic and computer shops while people looking for special items and handicraft should have a look around at Covent Garden where a lot of small individual fashion shops are located. At Hatton Garden watches and jewellery is the most sold good and in Charing Cross Road it is books. Big shopping arcades are Leadenhall Market, Burlington Arcade and Piccadilly Arcade. The best known department store “Harrods” is located in Brompton Road and should also be on your sightseeing list even if you are not interested in shopping. The food store on the ground floor with the so-called “Food Halls” is not only famous in Britain.
Some of London’s markets are enormously famous across the borders of the UK. Worth a visit are the weekly market on Chalk Farm Road close-by Camden Lock and the antiquity and flea market on Portobello Road. The markets on Sundays in Petticoat Lane and Brick Lane in the area Eastend offer nearly everything from fruits and vegetables to antiquities and jewellery. On Columbia Road you can buy flowers on the flower market. Other markets for antiquities and handicraft are in Spitalfields and in the Camden Passage in Islington.
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