Elizabeth Renzetti London — From Wednesday’s Globe and Mail Published on Tuesday, Dec. 29, 2009 4:07PM EST Last updated on Friday, Jan. 01, 2010 1:16AM EST
ven the Elizabethans were wary of the London neighbourhood now known as King’s Cross: “Walk not there too late,” one scholar warned in the 17th century, and that was before the bone boilers and horse butchers moved in, followed by the slum dwellers and, more recently, the drug dealers, pickpockets and prostitutes.

It’s a glorious part of London because it’s the real London: squalor and beauty living in companionable peace. But the Elizabethans were right; you really should watch your purse at night.

Roughing it, sort of Most of the hotels in King’s Cross are either budget chains or slightly frightening flophouses. But Rough Luxe, a “little bit of luxury in a rough part of London,” is less fleabag, more posh teabag. The orange shag carpet and Gilbert & George poster in the parlour are clear signals …

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