(Travel beijing) Explore London through the eyes of Dopplr’s smart travellers
By Dave Tug
Dopplr has aggregated and collated the collective wisdom of the travellers who use it, creating a unique resource for travel planning that’s packed with useful, up-to-date information. Here are some interesting things Dopplr knows about London.
Top places to explore in London:
- British Museum
49-63 Great Russell St, Camden Town,London, United Kingdom
- Tate Modern
Bankside, SE1, London, United Kingdom
- Science Museum
Exhibition Rd., SW7, London, United Kingdom
- Victoria & Albert Museum
Cromwell Rd., SW7, London, United Kingdom
- National Gallery
5 Trafalgar Square, Westminster, London, United Kingdom
- Natural History Museum
Cromwell Rd., SW7, London, United Kingdom
- St Paul’s Cathedral
St Paul’s Churchyard, EC4M 8AD, London, United Kingdom
- Big Ben
Bridge St, Westminster, London, United Kingdom
Top places to eat in London:
- Patisserie Valerie
44 Old Compton St., Soho, London, United Kingdom
- Hakkasan
8 Hanway Pl., Bloomsbury, London, United Kingdom
- Tate Modern Restaurant
Bankside, 7th fl., South Bank, London, United Kingdom
- Belgo
50 Earlham St., Covent Garden, London, United Kingdom
- Wagamama
4 Streatham St., Bloomsbury, London, United Kingdom
- St. John
26 St. John St., Smithfield, London, United Kingdom
- Busaba Eathai
22 Store St., Bloomsbury, London, United Kingdom
- Bodeans
10 Poland St., Soho, London, United Kingdom
Top places to stay in London:
- The Zetter
86-88 Clerkenwell Road, London, United Kingdom
- St. Martins Lane
45 St. Martin’s Ln., Covent Garden, London, United Kingdom
- Sanderson
50 Berners Street, London, United Kingdom
- Soho Hotel
4 Richmond Mews
- Charlotte Street Hotel
15-17 Charlotte Street, London, United Kingdom
- The Hempel
31-35 Craven Hill Gdns., Bayswater, London, United Kingdom
- Blakes
33 Roland Gardens, London, United Kingdom
- One Aldwych
1 Aldwych, Covent Garden, London, United Kingdom
What is the best local market or shopping in London?
Our smart travellers say:
- Broadway Market is a great Saturday morning market with lots of organic and local products. It’s just north of hackney.
- Borough Market is the best for foodies. Open on Thursdays, Fridays and Saturdays. Get there early on a Saturday (before 11am if you can) because it gets really REALLY crowded. Then you can stop off for a coffee at the Monmouth coffee shop before heading home to eat all your purchases for lunch.
- Spitalfields Market a short walk from Liverpool Street station. Lots of varied stalls and plenty of places to eat and drink.
- Portobello Market over weekends for all kinds of stuff… food, fashion, arts and crafts.
Dopplr members share travel advice privately with people they trust, and exchange tips on places to stay, eat and explore in cities around the world.
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See the world through the eyes of Dopplr travellers with the Social Atlas
By Dave Tug
Visit any bookstore and it’s easy to find a dozen or more guidebooks for any one of the world’s major cities. Dopplr’s Social Atlas is a guidebook unlike any other the information within it has been compiled by the smart travellers who share their trips with others on Dopplr.
In addition to trips, they can share the discoveries they make along the way. They are able to add travel tips about places to eat, stay, and explore that might not have caught the attention of the publishers of printed guidebooks.
Dopplr travellers add hundreds of new places every week, and we aggregate and anonymise the information they send in. Looking at the data as a whole, we can start to see patterns emerging and that’s the true power of the Social Atlas.
It means we can pinpoint the cool cafes, hip shopping streets, gourmet restaurants and fashionable bars that people have discovered in the last few months. We can see where people are choosing to spend a night, be it in a tiny backstreet guest house or in the grandest of five-star hotels.
The explore category can mean taking in the traditional tourist attractions, but it might also mean walking the back streets of an up-and-coming city district, nosing around the shops and soaking up the atmosphere. It might mean browsing dusty bookshops or modern art galleries, or simply sipping a coffee and people-watching in a busy market square. Whatever travel tips Dopplr travellers have shared, it’s all available to everyone in the Social Atlas.
And we can do all this much quicker than traditional print publishing allows. The Social Atlas is constantly changing as people’s opinions change and new recommendations are added to our database. Whatever’s happening in the world’s big cities, our travellers are likely to spot it. The Social Atlas is always bang up-to-date.
The Social Atlas is built entirely using the recommendations from smart travellers, and this is what makes it unique. We know, for example, where Dopplr travellers are based and also what travel planning they’ve been doing. We can look at an overview of the data and spot interesting trends, such as where Londoners tend to go when they visit New York (and, in contrast, where New Yorkers go in their home town).
These trends and patterns are central to the value of the Social Atlas in the long term. It allows us to take snapshots of cities not just as places, but also as moments in time. The snapshot for London in January will differ from London six months later, as seasons and fashions change people’s habits.
Dopplr is a service for smart travellers. Dopplr members share travel advice privately with people they trust, and exchange tips on places to stay, eat and explore in cities around the world. Dopplr aggregates this collective intelligence - travel advice from worlds most frequent travellers - as the Social Atlas.
Tips to Finding an Overseas Moving Service
By Gerry Lamb
People who are planning to move overseas have a lot of things on their mind. Moving is no easy task. This is because of the fact that there are about a million decisions to make. Some people think that the decision to move will be the hardest they encounter. They are wrong. Once you have made that decision, it will only open the floodgates containing a lot of other small decisions concerning how, what, where, and when to move. One of the decisions you are facing would be choosing an International or Overseas moving service.
How does an international or overseas moving service help you?
Mostly, an international or overseas moving service would help you with the shipment of your stuff. We all know how hard it is to move all of your stuff to another place without help. An international or overseas moving service will be able to help you move your stuff this way:
1) Packing - some international or overseas moving services do offer to help you with packing your possessions for moving. Of course, this only includes packing your possessions which are not too personal in nature. Generally, an international or overseas moving service will help you pack in order to increase the efficiency of moving. An international or overseas moving service will help you pack in order to maximize the space allotted to you.
An international or overseas moving service also works with a schedule. This means that by hiring them to do the packing, you will be making sure that it gets done in time.
2) Shipping - most international or overseas moving services are affiliated with a shipping company or a delivery service. This means that they will be able to help you actually move your stuff. Often, an international or overseas moving service would offer you different options with regards to the manner in which your stuff is shipped. If you are shipping valuables such as art pieces overseas, an international or overseas moving service might offer to have your stuff shipped with increased protection. If you want to move your stuff faster, they may also offer to move your stuff and deliver it to your new home even before you arrive.
There are also international or overseas moving services which specialize in relocations. This type of international or overseas moving service does not help move your stuff. This service helps move you. This type of international or overseas moving service is often connected with the real estate business. This means that this type of international or overseas moving service specializes in helping you find a new home.
With this international or overseas moving service, you will be able to find a new home even without leaving your old one. An international or overseas moving service will help you finding the home and negotiating for it. This means that you can free your mind and concentrate on the other aspects of your move.
There are still other types of international or overseas moving services. Some may help you with the required papers. Others may help you get adjusted to the new place. All of these types of international or overseas moving services can help you by letting you delegate the tasks that need to be done. With an international or overseas moving service, moving doesn’t need to be a hard thing to do.
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