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Cool Places to Go in London
If you have five years for a vacation you might be able to see about half of what London has to offer. No matter your tastes – whether modern or classical art, monuments and museums, zoos and gardens,...
View ArticleGreenwich Royal Observatory
To most, the question “What time is it?” is mundane. But to the men and women whom, over the centuries since 1675, have worked at the Royal Observatory, Greenwich it is of huge importance. Evolving...
View ArticleHarrods London
Much of London, for the tourist anyway, is historical. Ancient buildings and centuries old monuments. Palaces and works of art from the ages. But not Harrods. Harrods, even while its origins are from...
View ArticleShakespeare Globe Theatre
Shakespeare’s Globe Theatre is in fact long gone – closed by Puritans in 1642 and taken down 2 years later. Fortunately for fans of the bard, there’s a faithful reproduction housed only a few hundred...
View ArticleNatural History Museum London
Since its founding in the mid-19th century, the Natural History museum London has offered one of the largest, most diverse collections in the world. The dinosaur exhibits are world-renowned, but there...
View ArticleLondon, The Nature Experience
London has such a long history, filled with great churches, monuments, art and history museums that seeking nature here often isn’t what immediately comes to mind. But that’s an error, since London is...
View ArticleKew Palace and Gardens
“It’s good to be king!” announced the Austrian ruler in Amadeus. Well, it wasn’t so bad to be a wealthy merchant either. Kew Palace, known as Dutch House until 1827, was built in 1631 for the Dutch...
View ArticleLondon West End
For the London traveler looking for variety, the West End is the place to be. Piccadilly Circus is next door, where antique book shops mix with the latest restaurants and Covent Garden is not far. And,...
View ArticleWestminster Abbey
Church, burial ground, coronation site and much more, Westminster Abbey continues to attract visitors over 900 years after its founding. In many respects the architecture is common. There’s the...
View ArticleThe Tower of London
Few prisons can claim to be as popular as the Tower of London, an attraction – unpleasant for some – for over 900 years. Its twenty towers are filled with an ancient tradition of royal blood, armor and...
View ArticleBuckingham Palace Tour
Though one of the most popular tourist attractions in London, Buckingham Palace is still the official residence of Britain’s monarchy, as it has been since Queen Victoria’s designation in 1837. Much of...
View ArticleSt Paul’s Cathedral
For three hundred years St Paul’s Cathedral has served as one of the enduring symbols of London, a role it richly deserves. Completed in 1708, Sir Christopher Wren’s masterwork is recognized the world...
View ArticleBritish Museum
Like most museums in London, The British Museum is free of admission (though some events and special exhibitions have an admission charge). But were it the most expensive attraction in the city, it...
View ArticleThe London Eye
One of the best ways to see London is from the air. Unfortunately, that was fairly difficult until recently. Now it’s as easy as stepping onto a platform that moves slower than the average escalator...
View ArticleAlong Whitehall London
To many the name ‘Whitehall’ evokes ‘British Government’. And, indeed, the Houses of Parliament are at one end of the road running north from Parliament Square. But there’s much more along this major...
View ArticleNational Gallery London
Throughout its troubled history, the National Gallery in London has persevered to maintain one of the greatest art collections in the world. Having no Royal collection with which to begin, the museum...
View ArticleHyde Park London
Perhaps most famous for the Speaker’s Corner, where citizens stand atop a soapbox and shout their views to the crowd, there’s much more to see and do in Hyde Park London than listen to political...
View ArticleKensington Palace and Gardens
Kensington Palace has been home to royalty from long before Queen Victoria’s birth there in 1819 to Princess Diana’s residence until her death to today. Still in use as a working Royal Residence, there...
View ArticleMadame Tussaud’s and London Planetarium
Madame Tussaud’s Wax Museum is one of the very few attractions in London that is both centuries old and completely modern. Madame Tussaud learned her unusual craft of modeling figures in wax by...
View ArticlePiccadilly Circus London
At the junction of Regent Street and Shaftesbury Avenue lies a trapezoidal area near London’s West End known to the world as Piccadilly Circus. It’s an odd name, since there’s no circus there, but even...
View ArticleTrafalgar Square
Trafalgar Square is the center of England in more ways than one. At its south end lies what used to be Charing Cross, the point from which all distances to London are measured. Long since, the cross...
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