Islington is a great base to explore the capital with excellent transport connections and it's a fascinating part of London in its own right. Lots of restaurants and cafés, more theatres than anywhere else outside the West End, museums and galleries, markets and specialist shops. So use the Kandara as your base to explore this corner of the real London.
The following are just a few of the highlights:
Almeida Theatre - small but highly acclaimed theatre
Arsenal Football Club - premier league football at Highbury
Business Design Centre - major exhibition and conference venue with stunning interior
Camden Passage Antiques Market - over 300 shops and stalls - main days Wednesday and Saturday
Crafts Council - UK headquarters of the Council with a gallery, library, shop and café
Estorick Collection of Modern Italian Art - Futurist art in a Grade II listed building
Family Records Centre - main centre for registers of births, deaths, marriages etc in England and Wales since 1837. Also close to the London Metropolitan Archives and the Society of Genealogists.
House of Detention - former Victorian prison with vast areas of underground passages and cells
King's Head Pub Theatre - long-standing pub-theatre with many shows transferring to the West End
London Canal Museum - the Regent's Canal runs through Islington so it's fitting that this museum should be based here
Marx Memorial Library - socialist library/archives
Museum of the Order of St John - The story of the Knights of the Order of St John
Sadler's Wells - Newly rebuilt, this is a world class centre for dance and opera
Wesley's Chapel, House and Museum of Methodism - A centre for methodism dating from 1778