Sixties

Advantages: Food
Disadvantages: Should be updated (the style)

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Advantages: Comfortable, clean, great reception area
Disadvantages: Out of centre, a little overpriced

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Advantages: Shops for everything, trendy to the extreme and generally fab! Dig that swinging vibe etc...
Disadvantages: A few tacky souvenir stores, and some of the shops are expensive (you gotta pay to look good, baby)

...Back in the sixties, or so I'm told, Carnaby Street was the centre of all that was hip in Swinging London and was quite possibly The Coolest Place On This Planet®. Back then, you were nobody unless you rode a scooter (except, of course, if you were a rocker, in which case you wouldn't be seen within ten miles of a Vespa), wore clothes which you knew your mother wouldn't approve of, and worshipped the new found ideas of youthful creativity and being generally "groovy". Of course, that's all in the past, and nowadays the only scooter you're likely to see is one of those little metal things being ridden by a rather ashamed yuppy, so why am I doing a review of Carnaby Street? Surely a place like this is now as dead as a Lambretta after a nasty encounter with a postal van(see Quadrophenia). Well apparently not, as a recent visit to London has... Read review

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