This Is East

Ive been exploring New York with my camera 📸 for more NY imagery, head to Instagram for my photography account

I’m travelling New York for five days with my camera 📷 starting yesterday in Brooklyn. Go to my Instagram account to check out my stories and follow my travels - insta:

This gas holder is one of the millions of things I love about East London - they need to be saved 🌐

*IMPORTANT POST* We have just two days to appeal to Tower Hamlets Council to save the majestic, historic gasholders that sit alongside Oval Space. They're under threat of demolition, to make way for soulless new build apartments. Please take a moment to sign this petition from the East End Waterway Group. Thank you. https://residents-first.co.uk/east-end-waterway-group/petition-gas-holders/

For anyone who might be intrigued by visiting Morocco for the first time - or maybe wants to go back again - here's my latest article which details the ins and outs of my recent trip with images, plus the lowdown on some of the nicest hotels in Marrakech including one which has a Dior shop in the lobby. Also, details on the souk I dipped into, the culture I experienced, the food I loved, the clubbing I got involved with and THAT zip line. Escape for five minutes, read more here:

Travel: The magic of Morocco - This Is East Morocco ticks all the boxes; with its beautiful French-Arabic dialect, its reliable weather and the incredible food, culture, sites and smells...

I'm in meetings all morning, meaning I get to cycle around Hackney seeing sites like this: my favourite East-based postcard scene 🚲

Winter's coming. Party your way through the colder months with damn good booze and don't ever leave the house for anything. Hopt in Shoreditch are making this whole concept far more achievable. The sell awesome artisan alcohol from their Boxpark Shoreditch unit and THEY DELIVER TOO. Sweet mother of hedonism. Come at us, Winter.

Hopt: The awesome stockist of artisan alcohols ...who also deliver - This Is East Alcohol delivery. It’s a thing of beauty. Well, now it is, anyway - thanks to Hopt in Shoreditch. Before they came along and re-invented the concept of booze on the move, my only other ‘experience’ of getting liquor quicker was way more Picasso, than Rembrandt...

Full moon, half moon 💡

Awesome impromptu gig night featuring talented local musicians at Dragon Bar in Shoreditch - the first of many more to come from this crowd

Well Street's beautiful coffee haunt The GRAND HOWL now have another box of Harp magazines. Seeing as I was here, I indulged - their own-roasted coffee is genuinely incredible.

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Lovers of old-school bicycles, Hackney's Pedal Pedlar Vintage Cycling specialise in restoring retro racing bikes to their former glory. Read more and see all the photos via This Is East online:

Pedal Pedlar: The East London bike shop with the ultimate specialist subject - This Is East From the street, Pedal Pedlar looks like a great example of any other ace little Hackney bike shop. However, there’s an underlying tone of awesome with this place, which they channel via a practise of buying and restoring incredible vintage bikes in the basement.