CREDITS BRIDGET JONES'S DIARY, 2001 dir: Sharon Maguire Renee Zellweger Colin Firth Hugh Grant Jim Broadbent

Helen Fieldings' newspaper column struck a nerve, and was soon released in book form, and inevitably turned into a film.

In the newspaper column, Bridgetís London home was in Holland Park, and her locals included The Pharmacy; Coffee Republic on Portobello Road (outside which Hugh Grant bumps into Julia Roberts in Notting Hill); 192; and Cafe Rouge.

For the movie, however, sheís been relocated south of the river to Borough, an area seen in Lock, Stock and Two Smoking Barrels, Howards End and Entrapment.

Bridgetís (Renee Zellweger) flat is above The Globe, Bedale Street at Green Dragon Court (a location for The French Lieutenantís Woman).

Across Bedale Street you can see the shops which were tranformed into the cab office, the newsagent anf, of course, the fictitious Greek restaurant where caddish Daniel Cleaver (Hugh Grant) and D'Arcyish Mark Darcy (Colin Firth) slug it out during a birthday party. Bridget plods glumly through Borough Market after discovering Cleaver with ìLara, from the New York officeî.

Grab a bite at the Tate Modern Restaurant in Tate Modern, Bankside, the old Bankside Power Station turned cutting edge art gallery, where Bridget and her friends hang out. Or you can shop at Dickens & Jones, 224 Regent Street, the venerable West End department store, where Bridgetís mum demonstrates the strangely erotic egg peeler.

Bridget gets advice from her friends: Momo, Heddon Street

Before the first date with Daniel, Bridget gets advice from her friends at fashionable, exotic and expensive Maghreb restaurant Momo, 25 Heddon Street (Heddon Street, tucked away behind Regent Street, by the way, might be familiar to David Bowie fans as the benighted backstreet featured on the 1972 Ziggy Stardust album cover.)

ICA, the Institute of Contemporary Art on the Mall, is the site of the horribly embarrassing book launch for Kafkaís Motorbike, attended by Salman Rushdie.

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