London for Insiders: weekend away

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Mar 17, 2011

50 best B&Bs

Ooooh. Spring is coming round, time to hit the countryside.

Here is The Independent's guide to the top 50 B&Bs in the UK. Very nice.

http://www.independent.co.uk/travel/hotels/the-50-best-bampbs-2239428.html?action=Gallery

Quite the world citizen, Monique Vanni is an international environmental consultant, with a diplomatic background. She's also a PHD candidate at LSE's Department of Social Policy, an ashtanga yoga practitioner and likes the odd life drawing class.

She's chosen London because it is truly a cosmopolitan experience, and each bus ride feels like a Benetton comercial.

Monique has been in London for over three years, and is always peeling away at new layers of this big onion of a metropolis. While she considers herself a big contemporary art enthusiast, her greatest passion is food.

She loves to buy it, cook it, eat it, and talk about it.... Her London is a bit off the beaten track: a bit scruffy, but glamorous nonetheless. Like Brigitte Bardot after a rough night.