Have you ever thought about a flying holiday where you see the world on-board a private chartered aircraft? Can you imagine traveling from London to Sydney, stopping off along the way to visit some of the most spectacular attractions in the world?
Well, dear friends, you are not greenhorns anymore. Of course, you still don’t master the charming Cockney accent, but are not a foreigner visitor in the happy city of London. And if happens that you read some English books in the pre Internet era, there were sure some books about London.
Westminster Abbey is a landmark of London
I think that no other mega city was so much sung and spelled like London! Oliver Twist, Sherlock Holmes, British Queens and Kings and much many others pale when comparing them to London. As London is for sure much better painted in all those books!
London for book lovers, this is the event I am proposing to you first! Use the guided tours, or simply take a map and try to discover the magic of London as it breaths in many notorious books. If you wanna get something from Charles Dickens‘ naturalism and discover the traces of Oliver Twist, visit the poor neighborhoods of London. Or walk along The Tower Bridge over the Thames to get a flair of “Our Mutual friend”, also a Dickens masterpiece.
London Bridge. Big Ben. Buckingham Palace. West End. These are just a few great reasons why it would be so much fun to go to London. A London vacation is the perfect solution for a person in need of a little rejuvenating.
Westminster Abbey
Think about all of the wonderful things London has to offer. It can’t be hard, a list was started up above. But if you’re suffering from burn out on the job, or just plain bored, the sights and attractions that a London vacation can offer you will have you bubbling with excitement in no time.
And it’s not just the attractions that are exciting but what you can see at them. Like Buckingham Palace. Sure it’s big and beautiful and a sight to see. But what would be better than Buckingham Palace? Seeing the Changing of the Guard at Buckingham Palace, that’s what. Then there’s also the Tower of London, St. Paul’s Cathedral and Globe Theatre.
London is an historic city, built on centuries of commerce, culture and politics but foremost amongst all the capital cities in the world it has continual held a reputation for forward thinking and cutting edge, and makes for a wonderful place to visit with the old and new coexisting seamlessly side by side.
One of the best ways to see the sprawling city and surrounding areas is to take a guide tour, and companies like Hospitality Line (www.hospitalityline.co.uk) run a number of varied tours that should suit the needs of most visitors.
Everyone knows that not all tours are fun. In fact, a lot of times people don’t want to go on them because they feel like they will be wasting one of their precious vacation days. Well, depending on the tour, that can be true. But if you take a tour on something that really interests you, the little inconveniences can be so very worth the trouble.
One place you can find some great tours is London. You can find fun and interesting London tours and you can find London tours that will scare your socks off. Like the Jack the Ripper & London’s Murky Past Tour by Bus where you can have a chance to experience what it was like to experience the terror of the streets during London in the 1800’s.
Everyone knows that London is famous for its tea and scones and a pint at the pub with some fish and chips. But is that the only cuisine that London has to offer the rest of the world? There’s no way that London could be so popular and so full of culture if that is truly all it had in the way of food. Could it?
Thinking to London shall not mean only old buildings, obsolete citymarks. Not at all, this huge city has also a modern touch.
The London Eye is one of them. But what is London Eye actually? First look, and then read further.
London Eye, also named Millenium Wheel, is the tallest Ferris wheel in Europe, measuring 135 metres.
The London Eye is located on the western end of Jubilee gardens, on the south bank of River Thames. When former Prime Minister Tony Blair opened it to public on 31.12.1999 it was supposed to become one of London’s citymarks and major attractions. Which the London Eye did succesfully: it is the most popular paid tourist attraction in the U.K. (3 600 000 visitors former year)!
You need some time to understand and visit London. Hard to say how much time. Some cities accepted me fast, other much more difficult. I can’t name the reasons.
London accepted and swallowed me very fast, in 4 days (personal record). But for that I filled the following necessary steps, which I am recommending to you now, as you can do them cheap or free:
1. Catch and make photographies of the well known citymarks: Palace of Westminster and Big Ben; Westminster Abbey; St. Margaret’s Church; Tower bridge; Tower of London.
2. Visit the Royal Botanical Garden in Kew, which is superb and huge. Besides very many plants (it is one of the leading Botanical Gardens in the world) you can see many exotic ore old constructions (pagoda, Japanese house, etc)
3. Greenwich Observatory, which sets the time worldwide.
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