Your guide for shopping in the UK

Experts says that the low exchange rate of the pound sterling, in addition to shops and various shopping centers throughout the United Kingdom race in breaking prices, offers shoppers from all over the world an opportunity to get breathtaking and unprecedented offers.

Carol Maddison, Marketing Manager at “Visit Britain – Emirates” said: «the next few months provide an ideal opportunity for shopping in Britain thanks to the low exchange rate of pound sterling and the launch of the shopping season and special offers at the shopping malls and stores throughout the United Kingdom, and this wonderful opportunity for shoppers who used to choose clothes and necessities form brand names of the famous fashion houses and modern elegance at competitive prices ».

Among the most famous shopping destinations in the United Kingdom i picked up some for you:

 
* London

* «Westfield London», located in Shepherd’s Bush in London is the largest shopping mall in the Europe.
The complex includes five giant supermarkets, such as «Marks & Spencer» and «House of Fraser», and more than 256 brand names stores such as classy «Zara» and «Apple» and others.
In the British capital during your visit you can also visit the first «National Geographic» shop in the world, which was opened recently in the «Regent Street». The store’s unique in its conception and modern design with a variety of clothing and accessories to travelers and others, and the store is launched by the American Society of ancient cultural center with its mission and inspired others to urge them to protect our planet.
Do not miss the visit and the shopping at «Marc Jacobs Bay» in the «Mayfair», the first store designed by the famous designer Marc Jacobs in the British capital London.

Do not forget to visit the old shops of London at «Carnby Street» and «Covent Garden» and «Camden Market» and «Botobilo», as you can enjoy unique shopping experience in the «Oxford Street» and «Regent Street» and «High Street Kensington», also you can visit the modern elegance «Choredej» and great bargains in the «Brick Lane» and «Spittal Fields».

* Bristol

* Bristol had a wide celebrations this year on the anniversary of the launch of a massive shopping mall «Cabot Circus».
Try it by yourself and visit this architectural construction masterpiece with a cost of 500 million pounds sterling, attracting shoppers and visitors from all over United Kingdom and the world in general, includes a wide range of shops, such as «Harvey Nichols».
You can also visit the famous shopping centers «Brodmid» and «Bristol Mall», shopping from many of the famous boutiques, such as «Bremark», which is a top favorite shop in the United Kingdom for its vast collection of trendy clothes and prices that can not be competed, Bristol launched the world’s largest store of the chain «Bremark» this year.

Do not forget to visit the neighborhood «Clifton» and «Christmas Steps», curio shops and ancient shops, «St. Nichols Market» and the stalls of food, and visit the «Park Street» and for sure « Bristol Guild ». You can also visit «Mall come with Krebs Causeway»  and enjoy the elegance and Fashion Week to be held in the city in September each year.

* Cardiff

* South of the capital at Cardiff you can visit the shopping center «St. Devdz 2» which is a development of an ancient shopping center «St. Devdz», where the expansion will include about a hundred new store, including famous stores, such as the prestigious British shops « John Lewis ». Do not forget to visit the famous shops and independent boutiques and shops, manufactures traditional Welsh goods at «Queen Street» and its pathways dating back to the era of  Queen Victoria and King Edward VII, as you can visit «Capitol Center» and «Queens Arcade» and the «Mermaid Quay» shopping area and enjoy the water view at the picturesque Cardiff Bay.

* Birmingham

* Birmingham witnessed rapid developments and changes over the past decades, travellers and visitors can experience the best modern shopping malls in the ancient city that combines modern architectural designs and historic industrial style, and this gives a lot for the neighborhoods and the unique nature of the streets.
For example, the Custard Factory, located in Birmingham, where was the birth of the famous traditional English dessert. Visitors can also visit the «Urban Village» shop in Birmingham which was established recently and displays the latest fashions in clothes inspired by eras of the past.
Do not forget to visit «The Mail Box», which included former postal sorting office of «Royal Mail», it is a famous shopping districts in Birmingham and is just important as «Bond Street» in London, and visit the complex «Bull Ring» famous old-architecture, which includes the shop «Sylvregiz» which covered by 15,000 aluminum sheet in a brilliant design.

* Liverpool

* Liverpool is still living the celebration of the European Capital of Culture 2008, the city includes the port city which is one of the largest shopping centers in Europe, the famous «Liverpool one», which cost $ billion pounds and extends over an area of 170,000 square meters in the heart of the city, with more than 160 shops, This massive shopping mall was important in enhancing the status of Liverpool as a European and British favorite shopping center, the city has moved from No. 16 to the fifth place after the opening of this mall.
In your trip to Liverpool do not miss the famous «Top shop», which is the largest of its kind outside London, the shop «Beetlemenia» in the shopping center «Kavirn Walks» and the shopping center «Metkoortr» In addition to shops and restaurants in «Bold Street» and «Hardman Street».

* Leeds

* Leeds strengthened its position as a preferred destination thanks to the launch of many high-class shops in the famous shopping streets. For example, «Pepper Caesar Stone» shop in the «New York Street» provides artworks and luxury furnishings and clothing bearing the brand names of the famous global and British designs.
«Foley Foley» series of shops opened its first store outside London in «Victoria quarter» in Leeds city.
The famous « Third Estate» shop in the «Miriun Center» is a favorite destination for those looking for stylish modern clothes. 

* Newcastle

* Famous city located in the north-east has a high-class shopping centers and supermarkets.

Do not forget to visit «Thort Cumberland Street» and «Monument Mall» and «Eldon Square» and «Eldon Garden» and «Mitrosntr Gateshead» If you are looking for global brands, and you can choose what suits you best clothes from «Brancez Square», and select works of art and artifacts from the «Armstrong Bridge Art Market».

* Edinburgh

* It is known that the famous men’s designer Nicolisbi designed traditional Scottish clothes for celebrities and stars such as Robbie Williams and Samuel L. Jackson and others. Today you can choose traditional Scottish clothes from his shop «Twenty First Century Kyelts» in the «Thistle Street», where they have traditional clothes and matching modern clothes stylish leather or denim and other fabrics.

Do not forget brands in «Princes Street» and elite clothing in «Maltriz Walk», boutiques in «New Town» and «West End», Scottish traditional manufactures in «Royal Mile» and «Grass Market».

Devon .. the English Riviera !!

Devon is the most important and the third largest English provinces, especially at the level of tourism to its south-western geographical location on the border of the beautiful and wonderful Cornwall, Devon is one of the most beautiful and most famous among the rich tourists that seeking examples of Georgian and Victorian England and natural history.

The province includes many of the traditional small coastal and inland towns,  also includes a number of major cities such as Exeter in the south, which includes the British weather control center and the coastal city of Plymouth, which played a major role in the British Navy, like many coastal cities at the days of the British Empire.

More importantly, the province has the largest open green area, mostly in England and of course, natural reserves and parks managed by the government, the area known as Dartmoor and its around one thousand square kilometers.

Devon is the only province which includes two shorelines, the first in the north-west to the Bristol Channel and the second in south-east English Channel, surrounded by the most important British provinces such as Cornwall in the west and Dorset and Somerset in the east. Add to that the UNESCO defined two areas in Britain as a humanitarian heritage of mankind, most important of them is the coast of Dorset at East Devon, which is called «Jurassic Coast». This coast with a length of about 150 km and considered to be the fifth most important natural sites in Britain.

Jurassic Coast is a rocky coast includes different geological periods, which helps to understand the geological evolution of the land. The most beautiful natural features of it is the rock Dirdel that is similar to the rock Rosha in Beirut, the beach is the home of fossils science, which began with the famous Mary Anning on this famous beach. And collecting fossils is very important in the science of natural history, some of them back to 250 million years ago. So tourists find a lot of natural history that get them back to millions of years, in addition to the milestones of modern towns, cities and ports, traditional, good weather, hotels, and the small ports of the old and wonderful on the beach.

Recent statistics indicate that the province tourism sector revenues, which actively since the nineteenth century,reached 1.2 billion British pounds per year since 2004, a year with the UNESCO protection started.

Historically, this province has seen the first human settlement on the British island at end of the Ice Age. Scientists believe that the natural protected Dartmoor was inhabited by hunters before 6 thousand years.
The origin of the name back to the Celts who settled in southern Britain before the Roman occupation in 50 DC, the name means «the deep valley». Remained under the Roman military rule for 250 years. Later became – indicate the historical information – a dividing line between the Jumenonia Kingdom of Celtic -collaborating- with the Romans and the Anglo-Saxons Kingdom in Essex (the name of the tribes living in the south and east of England and speaks German). Since that time it was annexed to Essex County in the ninth century.

The province historically was the place of many important events in the history of England, such as invasions by the Normans led by William and the revolution by Birkin Erbak mid-fifteenth century. Add to that the civil war in England and the arrival of William Holland or orange as he called sometimes and the start of what is known as «the great revolution», which established the modern parliamentary system and enacted the rights of individuals in 1688.

In addition to the tourism sector, the province relies on the mining sector, fisheries and agriculture, but in the last period began attracting other sectors such as financial sector after the real estate boom in the nineties, as the economy began to depend on the Exeter and Plymouth in general.

Because Devon has the largest number of streets in the south of England, fit tourists who have their cars or taxis which are cheap to travel and enjoy most of the different regions of the south to the north. Internal zones of Dartmoor National Park, wild and rugged land and some English Victorian and Georgian old large houses. In the south you can see a lot of hills sprinkled with small villages here and there, such as Ivy Bridge, Kingsbrig, Dartmoth, Totanas and Torquay. The East Devon includes the oldest beach resort in Britain, and some towns in the Georgian style. In the north, an ancient agricultural areas with the major towns such as the Great Torrington and Bedford. The edges of the coastal edges are the highest in the country. This is the region bordering the Atlantic Ocean from very wonderful areas for tourists who wish to water skiing because of its abundant wind and strength there such as Bedford Bay Beach. Therefore, the province has an excellent natural wealth in terms of animal and plant, and a high incidence of wild flowers. And some small protected areas (about forty-protected official). The province also produces a wide variety of plants that can not be found in the rest of the island and the British Cornwall in particular, it was the only province in Britain because of high temperatures which sometimes grow olives for commercial purposes. Were also a source of many books on natural flowers and plants since the seventeenth century such as a book (Flora Devoniensis) of Jones Kingston in 1829.

Devon well known with a lot of beautiful annual festivals, especially the field visits in January, also known as the traditional English cookies usually served with tea and covered with cream or jam.

* The most important hotels in Devon

* (The Osborne Hotel)

Address: Hesketh Crescent, Meadfoot, TQ1 2LL Torquay
Number of rooms: 32 rooms of category 4 Stars from £ 65
one of the resort hotels and the huge and excellent initiative, which includes a swimming pool, one internal and the other in the front garden of the hotel’s vast. The location of the hotel gives visitors the opportunity to enjoy the scenic endoscopic Midfot on the shore of the English Riviera. The hotel boasts a playground for tennis and the best health treatment centers and massage. The site is a luxury hotel is very appropriate for those wishing to identify the Torquay and South Davin.

* (The Grand Hotel)

Address: Sea Front, TQ2 6NT Torquay
Number of rooms: 132 room of category 4 Stars from £ 35
a chain of hotels, a subsidiary of Richardson, one of the most beautiful hotels overlooking the Bay Torbay wonderful, the most luxurious and interest in services. The hotel has seven rooms or «Sweets» especially, are designed in different versions. The hotel boasts two swimming pools, Jacuzzi, massage room and exercise and tennis court.

* (Two Bridges Hotel)

Address: Princetown PL20 6SW Dartmoor
Number of rooms: 33 rooms 4 star hotel,
one of the most beautiful hotels in the park or scenic Dartmoor, which lies on the banks of the West took place. A traditional hotel is surrounded by green pastures, which provide services in this competitive modern tourist region par excellence. Hotel was built the end of the eighteenth century, was called at the very beginning the name of «a Sarsanz Head». But the name was changed since it paved the way up to the beginning of the last century.