Kensington

The Royal Borough of Kensington and Chelsea (often abbreviated to RBKC) is a district of London located in the western part of the city centre.

It was established in 1965, merging the former Metropolitan boroughs of Kensington and Chelsea. The adjective Royal was inherited from the Royal Borough of Kensington, to which it had been granted by Queen Victoria, who was born there. It's a very urbanised area. At the 2001 census the population numbered 158,919. The density (13,244 inhabitants per square kilometre) made the district the most densely populated local authority in the United Kingdom.

The district lies immediately west of the City of Westminster, the true nerve centre of modern London. The Borough of Kensington and Chelsea, for its part, is home to numerous museums (such as the Science Museum, the Natural History Museum and the Victoria and Albert Museum), universities, several embassies, the Harrods department store and many of the city's most exclusive residential areas.

We in particular were staying near Queensway, a bustling street full of ethnic shops, a few steps from Whiteleys, a shopping centre containing restaurants, a cinema and a branch of Marks and Spencer's, and very close to Portobello Road, home to the famous Saturday market.