Name: London England Travel Tips | East Vs West City Guide
Uploaded: 2025-07-17T09:28:40.000Z
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Welcome back to the channel. I'm Alex. I'm Marco.

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You're watching Vagabrothers, and in this video we'll be exploring London in two different ways, east and west.

We're here with Visa and their contactless cards, which allow us to pay for our travels worldwide without taking out any cash or getting stuck with leftover local currency at the end of the trip.

Visa challenged us to explore the city in two different ways. I'm taking the west, and I'll be exploring the east.

We're going to be showing you how to do the same city in two slightly different styles without taking out a single pound.

Maybe we can meet up for a pint halfway through, brother.

Ladies and gentlemen, welcome to the west side of London. Historically, this was the side where the nobility congregated, the royal family lives.

It's a little bit cleaner. It's a little bit quieter, a little more classy. If you have a taste for the finer things in life, this is the side for you.

And I am very excited to explore the west side of London, but I'm hungry.

First stop is Sketch London, a collection of five different restaurants as famous for their food as they are for their highly

It's been described as a modern forest fairy tale.

Definitely feels like Alice in Wonderland in here.

But I'm excited. I've got lunch on the way, a couple of courses, and this is going to be a delicious meal.

Welcome to East London, the industrial side of the city.

It's criss-crossed with canals that connected the Port of London to the industrial cities in the north of England.

But these days, the factories are closed off to the public.

But these days, the factories are mostly shut down, and they've been converted to artist residencies, start-up hubs, and cool businesses like the place I'm going for lunch.

This is a former factory that's been converted into a microbrewery and a pizzeria.

We've got some local beers, everything from a Session IPA to an Amber and a Stout, and we've got some local pizzas.

This one here has Dahl on it, which pays homage to East London's

Some of the best curries in the world are found here in this part of the city.

We also have a sweet potato and gorgonzola pizza.

And overall, this is a beautiful place to have some beer right on one of the historic canals.

I love East London because it's a very different side of what you might expect in the city. A lot of us think of Big Ben and the Tower of London and all those classic British icons, but this is totally different.

It's creative, it's diverse, and it's a lot of fun.

It's a great place to spend your time in London.

I am at the Marriott at the Library Tea Room just opposite Parliament, and it's tea time.

I've recently learned that there's two ways to do this.

Essentially, if you put the cream on first and then the jam, it's the Devonshire way.

And if you do it the opposite way, it's the Cornish way.

I've opted for the Devonshire way, and I'm not quite sure why.

The reason this is called the Library is because...take a look around.

County Hall, and I'm surrounded by over 4,000 books, most of which coming from the 1800s.

Great view, great food, great tea, and surrounded by the classics.

It's been fun out east, but I just got a text from Alex inviting me for a pint on neutral territory.

I had a fine dining experience, had a spot of tea, and I even learned how to cream a scone, the Devonshire way.

It's a little bit different than what you see in the tourist brochures. It's a lot more trendy. There's tons of street art.

It's been a really cool place to explore so far.

I go straight to the pub, and I have one of these warm beers. I love them.

Real ale. The cool thing about it right now is you're over on the east side.

I'm on the west side, but it doesn't mean that there has to be beef. There isn't beef, except for Beef Wellington. There's Beef Wellington actually on the menu. We could have gotten that.

We could split it 50-50 right down the middle.

Excellent pub. Not a bad way to end day one.

Nothing quite as luxurious as breakfast in bed.

Fruit platter, and far too many newspaper choices to choose from.

The English are known for their breakfast, and this place does a twist on a classic.

It's two floors above the city. It's open 24-7, and it's known for its duck and waffle breakfast, hence the name

I'm going to have their famous dish and start my day off with a twist.

This is great. It's like a twist on the chicken and waffles, which is popular in the U.S., but duck....

In this video, we're exploring east and west, and before those distinctions existed, there was just London.

Today I'm at the Tower of London, a castle that's nearly a thousand years old, built atop the Roman settlement of Londinium, and we are in for something really special.

Here we are out on Queen Elizabeth's Walk.

Ladies and gentlemen, it's a beautiful morning here in London.

I'm with Yeoman Sergeant Rob Fuller, and today we quite literally have the keys to the castle of the Tower of London.

We're going to go on a little secret tour, find out some of the hidden histories, and explore this iconic landmark.

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