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Free courtesy coach pick up
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Phone: 07906 080 345 |
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Looking to Party? Have a few drinks? Relax with your friends?
Hostel 639 can offer you a variety of entertainment including our extremly populor Karaoke every Thursday evening from 9pm. Join our Karaoke master and get in on the action singing 100's of songs available from our extensive song list.
If Karaoke is not your thing then join the party with our resident DJ, spinning the latest trax's, phat beats, pulsating sounds and exclusive mixes to let you groove the night away.
Hostel 639 offers it's guests a full range of entertainment including a range of arcade games, pool table, table tennis a TV room featuring Sky and 100's of movies to choose from to whatch at your leasure in our Movies Room. |
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Portobello Market is one of the great sights of London - it's diverse and lively atmosphere is a joy for anyone who enjoys hunting for flea market bargains. Also look out for cafes, bars, restaurants, fresh produce and much, much, more.
Porobello Roadha over 30 individual antique markets which open at different times to allow in the crowd of buyers who move from one market to another. The Good Fairy Antique Market is the busiest market of them all and it is the first to open, raising its shutters every Saturday at 4 p.m.
Many of the buyers are specialists who appreciate the fresh stock brought into the market each week.
Later in the day crowds of tourists shuffle past the rows of pastel painted terraced cottages at the Notting Hill end of the road weaving slowly past the market stalls. |
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The Notting Hill Carnival was established in 1966, Carnival takes place every August bank holiday. Sunday of the Carnival is children's Day; the Monday is The Mass Parade.
THE STORY BEHIND CARNIVAL
It was also known that slaves wore forbidden to be in the streets after dark unless they were accompanying their masters. When the Laws were repealed and freedom from slavery was announced in 1833, the slaves took to the streets in song and dance, indulging in their culture and using their artistic skills to mimic their masters and pour scorn on the system that had had them enslaved for so long. Consequently, slaves would dress like their masters, powder their faces to look pale like their masters or make masks to resemble their masters, distor-ting images and features if they regarded their masters as particularly evil or ridiculous.
These celebrations of freedom provided the only opportunity for black people to express their feelings about their slave masters and they quickly developed the art of costume making, creating fantastic ensembles which satirised their situation as Africans, transported to the Caribbean top become slaves. In Trinidad the tradition continued, going from strength to strength, as people from all over the island began to take part and associate themselves with Carnival, The skills of costume making, steel drumming and calypso became what is today, a huge festival of arts and culture, of which Trinidadians everywhere are justifiably proud, drawing on all aspects of their cultural heritage from Africa and Europe |
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Hyde Park is one of London's finest landscapes and covers 140 hectares (350 acres). Hyde Park provides facilities for many different leisure activities and sports as well as being the focal point for public events of all sizes.
Opening hours:
The park is open from 5am until midnight all year round.
Getting there:
By Foot:
Hyde Park is about a 45 Minute walk from Hostel 639
Tube:
Lancaster Gate & Marble Arch - Central Line
Hyde Park Corner & Knightsbridge - Piccadilly line
Buses from:
North London: 6, 7, 10, 16, 52, 73, 82, 390, 414
South London: 2, 36, 137, 436
West London: 9, 10, 14, 19, 22, 52, 74, 148, 414
East London: 8, 15, 30, 38, 274 |
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London Club Guide
Welcome to our new improved London club listings. The new listings are now updated every week and include the latest and greatest clubs shaking England's capital. |
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Exclusive London is a professional and trendy guide to inform, plan and book young, funky affluent Londoners into the most attractive hotspots on the London entertainment and social scene. This is your London guide for restaurants , cinema , guest lists , tickets , events, hotels , fashion , nightclubs , bars , private and corporate venue finding s |
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