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England's capital city, London is a huge, multicultural and
cosmopolitan city with a population of over 7.5 million. London
hotels provide a base for exploring the many parks, gardens and
famous attractions.
Along the South Bank Arts Centre, there is The London Eye, Tate
Modern, and Shakespeare's Globe.
On the north side of the River Thames, there is The Tower of
London, St Paul's Cathedral, Trafalgar Square, Westminster
Abbey, Big Ben and The Houses of Parliament. In the centre of
London there is also the British Museum, Natural History Museum,
Science Museum and Covent Garden, where you can often see street
performers from around the world.
The main geographical feature of the city is the river Thames,
which meanders through central London, dividing it into northern
and southern halves. The central area and the most important
sights, theatres and restaurants are within the Underground's
Circle Line on the north bank of the river. The trendy and
tourist-ridden West End lies within the western portion of the
loop and includes Soho, Trafalgar Square, Piccadilly Circus,
Leicester Square and Regent St. The East End, so beloved of
Ealing comedies, lies east of the Circle Line; it used to be the
exclusive preserve of the Cockney but is now a cultural melting
pot. There are interesting inner-city suburbs in North London,
including Islington and Camden Town. South London includes a
mess of poor, dirty, graffiti-ridden suburbs, such as Brixton,
which have vibrant subcultures of their own and are in many ways
where the real vitality of London lies.
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.
It's a cosmopolitan mix of Third and First Worlds, chauffeurs
and beggars, the stubbornly traditional and the proudly
avant-garde. But somehow - between 'er Majesty and Boy George,
Damien Hirst and JMW Turner, Bow Bells and Big Ben - it all
hangs together.
The city is so enormous visitors will need to make maximum use
of the underground train system: unfortunately, this dislocates
the geography and makes it hard to get your bearings. A ride on
a red double-decker bus (a quintessential London experience)
will help piece things together.
- Chiswick,
Middlesex, London, Greater London, England