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The Best of MTV England & Scotland 04_587733 ch01.qxp 4/23/07 11:04 AM Page 1 The Best of MTV England & Scotland The Best Brit Travel Experiences DFish and Chips: Don’t eat them in a Cambridge. And don’t forget the cucumber restaurant. These need to be smothered in sandwiches and chilled champers. salt, vinegar, and tomato ketchup, wrapped DA Night out Clubbing: Take your pick in paper, and eaten outside. Think wind- of the cities—London, Leeds, Newcastle, blown beach after you’ve just finished Manchester, Brighton, Glasgow. The Super- surfing, or park bench after a night out. club may have died a death, but even hip- DWeekend at a British Music Festival: per clubs have sprung up in its place and It doesn’t matter which one you’re at— the UK still has some of the world’s top DJs. Glastonbury, Reading, T in the Park—it will DPub Crawl: Forget barhopping, it’s so rain, the toilets will overflow, you will lose sterile. Instead, have yourself an English all your friends, and you will have the time pub crawl, stumbling from places like The of your life. Guaranteed. Royal Oak to the Old House at Home, chat- DWalk in the Rain: It’s going to rain at ting to the locals, getting the rounds in, some point in your trip, so why not savor downing pints, eating pork scratchings, the experience? Bundle up, head up onto a playing pool, and flirting with the bar staff. wild moor or cliff top, and let the wind and What could be more British? rain blast at your cheeks until they’re the DReal Ale by a Log Fire: Bottled color of freshly picked radishes. You’ve European lagers are so passé. In the UK never felt more alive. right now, real ale is where it’s at. Yes, they DPunting in Oxford or Cambridge: taste flat and are served warmish but, oh, What is punting?COPYRIGHTED It’s gliding along on a the flavor. MATERIAL It’s all that yeast still working flat-bottomed boat pushed along by a away in the barrel. Start off with a pint of huge wooden pole. To really live out Old Peculiar or a half of Speckled Hen. your aristocratic fantasies it needs to be Consume on a chilly night by a roaring log done at top student cities Oxford and fire. 04_587733 ch01.qxp 4/23/07 11:04 AM Page 2 2 The Best of MTV England & Scotland The Best Bars DTrailer Happiness (London): Float DMojos (Leeds): There’s no way you’re back to the 1960s at this “retrosexual getting in here if you turn up after 9pm at haven” where home meets Californian love the weekend. This down-and-dirty, rock- pad, thanks to luscious shag-pile rugs, per- ’n’-roll cocktail bar will already be packed fectly poured drinks, and kitsch glossy- out with local musos and DJs. 110% authen- THE BEST OF MTV lipped art. Never was a hippie so sexy. See tic. See p. 574. ENGLAND & SCOTLAND p. 117. DDry Dock (Leeds): No best Brit bars list D333 Mother (London): The Queen Mum can be complete with the inclusion of Dry of London’s trendy Shoreditch bars blends Dock. It’s an old boat that’s found itself together old leather Chesterfield sofas washed up on the totally dry bit of land with flock wallpaper and hanging chande- outside one of Leeds’ unis. Expect lots of liers to create a brilliantly eccentric students and lots and lots of drinking, day English drinkery. See p. 116. and night. See p. 574. DEarth and Stars (Brighton): Want to stay DTokyo (Newcastle): “What do you want healthy while you’re getting absolutely to go there for?” the übertrendy types in slaughtered? This is the place to do it. A Newcastle asked us. Well, that’s exactly “healthy” solar-powered bar serving up why we like Tokyo. It’s got its own brand of organic beers and wines to a hip, whole- quirky cool and attracts the hippest of the some crowd that is oh-so-Brighton. See city’s creatives. See p. 610. p. 238. DThe Opal Lounge (Edinburgh): If you DThe Custard Factory (Birmingham): want to pluck yourself a Prince William The Custard Factory is a vintage industrial look-alike, this is where to head. It’s the workspace now overrun with bohemians super glam bar he and his mates hung out and artists. And they drink at The Medicine at when he attended nearby uni St. Bar, Birmingham’s best bar, without a Andrews. See p. 631. doubt. It’s like being an arts student. Forever. See p. 425. The Best Festivals DNotting Hill Carnival (London): One of DGlastonbury (Somerset): Officially the biggest carnivals in the world and a titled The Glastonbury of Contemporary huge celebration of black British culture. Performing Arts Festival, this is the music Hundreds of thousands pack into West festival in the UK. It kicked off way back in London to samba along to floats, nibble on the ’70s and has maintained the same jerk chicken, and drink Red Stripe beer. See bohemian spirit, despite swelling enor- p. 130. mously in size. See p. 324. DReading (Hampshire): One for the rock DThe Cheese Rolling Festival (The kids. Three days of hard guitars and soft Cotswolds): A silly one. Herds of grown mud in a field in Hampshire. Previous men and women chase after a huge cheese headliners have included everyone from rolled down a hill in the middle of the Iron Maiden to Pearl Jam. See p. 190. countryside. People break limbs and blood 04_587733 ch01.qxp 4/23/07 11:04 AM Page 3 The Best Festivals 3 England, Scotland & Wales ORKNEY ISLANDS 0 50 mi KKirkwallirkwall 0 50 km Cape S Wrath E JohnJohn I D R TThursohurso o’Groatso’Groats B NORTH E StornowStornow H SEA Lewis th R HHIGHLANDSIGHLANDS ir E F North Minch ay T or U M FFraserburghraserburgh O Skye IInvernessnverness PPeterheadeterhead ey GGRAMPIANRAMPIAN Sp AAberdeenberdeen Rum MMallaigallaig Loch Ness AAviemoreviemore BBenen NNevisevis TS. 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The Best Clubs D THE BEST OF MTV Fabric (London): How long can this session featuring guest DJs like Courtney place remain hot? It’s been one of the capi- Love. See p. 112. ENGLAND & SCOTLAND tal’s top clubs for over 5 years now and is DHoney Club (Brighton): There are still going strong. Set under some brick plenty of clubs on England’s south coast, Victorian arches in a space that was once but the Honey Club definitely wears a part of a nearby meat market, this huge crown. It’s a massive space with five rooms, minimalist space now deals in house, seven bars, and room for over 1,000 peo- garage, techno, and drum ’n’ bass for ple. The crowd-friendly sounds are bought crowds of over 2,000. See p. 111. to you by the UK’s top DJs and alternate DRoller Disco (London): Relive those between house and R&B. See p. 239. heady days of childhood when scabbed DSpace (Leeds): Dark beats and lots of knees were better than medals and bottled water. You know what we’re say- nobody cared if you looked ridiculous in ing. This is clubbers’ clubbing. It’s in a your neon leggings. That’s the ethos at basement and a wee bit . er . how shall Roller Disco, where some of London’s we say it? . cozy? But the crowd loves it. coolest kids dress up in ’70s and ’80s garb, And each other. Prepare for multiple hugs don roller boots, and wheel about to disco and plenty of danceable tunes.
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