Harvey nichols - crazy land

Knowing your customer is one thing, knowing them this well is a little frightening. Marshmellows with added collegen! The perfect present for the vanity affluent.

West beach cafe - littlehampton

When london starts to get you down head south. Keep going till your feet get wet - this is littlehampton, home to a pair of modern marvels. While cities and resorts the world over clamoured for a slice of the Bilboa effect with starchitect eye candy Littlehampton went its own way. It hired two ambitious young architects and built two fish and chip cafes. Whilst the thomas heatherwick east beach cafe charms with its laid back air and happiness giving design the west beach is the one for me. Order fried fish of the day and chips twice, choose a crisp bottle of white, request some dainty recycled flutes then step outside onto the beach for romance sanctuary or sunsets.

(It might be best to check a compass first if you fancy the sunset bit - I've no idea where the sun sets, we left the beach by three thirty!)

Embassy electrical supplies - clerkenwell

Without the internet I would never have believed this male nirvana existed . Thanks to Mr Berners Lee I can confirm it does . I've been and seen the future. Embassy electrical supplies sells shelves of plugs, wires, cable ties and sparky stuff . Embassy electrical supplies also sells the best olive oil in england ( those anglo experts at the new york magazine say so! ) Who knows if its that good . All I can say is its the best I've ever tasted.

If I was boris Johnson I'd make embassy a must visit for every tourist - it so sums up the diversity and mashed up logic of the city we love . It makes me proud to find such eclectic stores, electric stores.