Adidas's flagship Originals store is just a few seconds stroll from the Seven Dials in Covent Garden(and just around the corner from LondonTown.com towers!) Gleaming and white, with trainers and clothes occasionally mounted on pedestals, and prices that will make your eyes water, it's more of a place of worship than a shop. Open from 10:30 to 19:00 Monday to Saturday and 11:00 to 18:00 Sunday

Berwick Street Market has been selling fresh fruit and vegetables, fish, herbs and cheese since 1840. The market traders still shout their wares and many offer big discounts late in the afternoon. Open: Mon to Sat 9am-6pm

An enormous shopping and leisure complex, Bluewater is just outside Greater London. The largest centre of its kind in Europe, it has over 330 shops and 40 cafés, bars and restaurants as well as a 13-screen cinema. It's the ideal haven for any shopaholic.Bluewater is best reached by car.

Borough Market is London’s oldest food market. It was established on the south bank of the Thames when the Romans built the first London Bridge. It has occupied its present site for 250 years.

Borough has a long and distinguished history as a wholesale fruit and vegetable market - wholesale trade takes place every night except Saturday from 2am – 8am.

If you are looking for a general flea market, Brick Lane is ideal as it has a vast hotchpotch of stalls. Traders here sell everything imaginable: food, furniture, kitchen appliances, DVDs and general bric-a-brac.

Sundays from daybreak-2pm. Closed at Christmas and New Year.

Brixton Market is Europe's biggest Afro-Caribbean food market. It sells unusual foods and spices, exotic fruit and vegetables and specialist meats and fish. You will also find local art, bric-a-brac, clothing and lots of reggae music! Open: Mon to Sat 8am-6pm

More than a thousand stalls spread over two streets make up Petticoat Lane Market. This East End market which has been operating since the 1750's or earlier, is named after the petticoats and lace once sold there by the Huguenots who came to London from France. The street was renamed Middlesex Street in 1830 by the Victorians who wanted to avoid references to women's underwear, but the name had stuck. The market specialises in new goods ranging from running shoes to kitchen utensils.

Mon - Fri: 10:00am - 2:30pm, Sun: 9:00am - 2:00pm

Bermondsey Market, one of London's main antiques markets, attracts dealers from all over the area and is a mecca for serious collectors.

The market was established here in the 1960s when the old Caledonian Market site in Islington was redeveloped.  Each Friday the dealers set up their stalls at dawn and by 9.00 am, when the tourists start arriving, most of the best bargains have long gone.

The area also has several antique shops that remain open all week.  A row of old warehouses on Tower Bridge Road houses the best of these; full of furniture and bric-a-brac.

Fri: 04:00-15:.00, starts closing around noon