Hampstead and Highgate

Hampstead Heath will make you forget you are even in a city; fishing, model boating, kite flying and horse riding are all  favourites and swimming in the three ponds is a popular summertime pursuit. At Kenwood House, a beautiful building in the neo-classical style, you can visit a fascinating private collection, the Iveagh Bequest and then enjoy jazz and classical music concerts, often with spectacular firework finales. 

Wander down to the edges of the Heath and you’ll find several famous drinking havens: The Spaniards Inn and the Bull and Bush are both musts in Hampstead, as is the Flask Inn on Highgate Hill, where, it is said, Dick Turpin once hid in the cellar.

Romantic poet John Keats and psychologist Sigmund Freud both lived in Hampstead and their homes are clearly sign posted. Visitors from all over the word also come to Highgate Cemetery to visit the tombs of Karl Marx, George Eliot and Sir Ralph Richardson.