London Travel Guide

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The various and diverse "villages" of London reflect the full spectrum of the city's residents. From exclusive, elite establishments to downright dingy dives, tourist-drenched terrain and homegrown habitations, there's something for every visitor. As Dr Johnson said back in the 18th Century: "If you're tired of London, you're tired of life." … Read London introduction

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Regent's Park & Primrose Hill

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Regent's Park offers a variety of facilities and amenities for the public to enjoy, including tennis courts, a bandstand, an open air theatre, elegant gardens and children's playgrounds. London Zoo is just next-door. A short walk away …
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Rock Circus
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London Eye (Millennium Wheel)
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Whirl-y-Gig
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Windsor Castle

Royal Lancaster Hotel

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A modern gray block emerging out of the low Victorian buildings around it, The Royal Lancaster offers great views of Hyde Park and Central London. With three …
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Brown's Hotel
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The Berkeley
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The Dorchester
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Portobello Hotel

Jazz Cafe

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Despite its name, this long-standing jazz club and restaurant does not exclusively play jazz. As well as an eclectic calendar of gigs, there are also sessions and club nights a few times a month, including the only real jazz dance club …
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Rhodes in the Square
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Vasco & Piero's Pavilion
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Roka
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Villandry Restaurant

Everyone has their own idea of hell. For me it is this city. Everythinng is a rip off, from the price of a bottle of water to the cost of a meal. The quality of the food is pathetic. The people ... more

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Introduction

London - the grand resonance of its very name suggests history and might. Its opportunities for entertainment by day and night go on and on and on. It's a city that exhilarates and intimidates, stimulates and irritates in equal measure, a grubby Monopoly board studded with stellar sights.

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Not to miss

Royal Observatory Standing with one foot in the world's western hemisphere and the other in the east: that's the Royal Observatory's cheap thrill. But as well as the chance to straddle the prime meridian (of time and longitude) there's also an absorbing tale of how the observatory's astronomers …

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Facts for the Traveller

Population : 7300000 Area : 1572km² Longitude / Latitude : 0° 07'W / 51° 30'N Currency : pound sterling (GBP) Weights & Measures system : Metric

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Getting there & Getting around

Getting there London is one of the world's major transport hubs, and your choices of ways to get in and out of it are myriad. Its major airports - the monster Heathrow and the smaller Gatwick, Stanstead, Luton and City - are all efficiently linked to the metropolis. You've always been able to hop to the …

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History

Recent History London briefly regained its swinging reputation in the 1990s, buoyed by Tony Blair's New Labour, a rampaging pound and a swag of pop, style and media 'names'. Blair's bane, Ken Livingstone, donned the mayoral robes in May 2000, opposing plans to sell off the Tube and pushing for …

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Weather

Many who live in London would swear that global warming has added a twist to the city's unpredictable climatic conditions. While locals used to complain about the frequent, but still somehow always unforeseen, arrival of rain, now they find themselves faced with sudden outbreaks of sunshine and …

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Overview of London

The British capital is more eclectic and electric than it's been in years. Newsweek hailed London as a hip compromise between the nonstop newness of Los Angeles and the aspic-preserved beauty of Paris -- sharpened to New York's edge. Wine Spectator proclaims more modestly: The sun is shining …

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London City Guide

Stretching over much of the south-east of England and situated on the River Thames near the English Channel, London is Europe's largest city. Its climate is rarely extreme, though summers are sometimes hot, and there is occasional snow in winter. Rain is frequent.

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Overview

If London contained only its landmarks -- Buckingham Palace, Big Ben, the Tower of London -- it would still rank as one of the world's top destinations. But England's capital is much more. It's a bevy of British bobbies, an ocean of black umbrellas, and an unconquered continuance of more than 2,000 …

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