Nothing is better to start the lazy tourist day with a full English breakfast (mind it, the breakfast is heavy enough to be called a brunch). The breakfast will have saucages, bacons, eggs, tomato, a mushroom, occasionally hash brown and the must baked beans with a cup of espresso. The best place to have it is in a pub, but any nice coffee shop, like Garfunkels or any other will do. With a fully satisfying English breakfast you are ready to explore the majestic London.
The best way to reach the city's heart is the tube. An amazing network of tube lines (still not comparable to Tokyo or Paris) will land you right in the heart of the city. We start the day from Marble Arch, an iconic gateway facing the Hyde park with nice green gardens surrounding it. A small walk through the flowers is amazing specially on a sunny day and worth taking a small walk. London has its own charm, it is crowded, polluted, not as beautiful like other european cities, but still the streets, the charm is equal to none.
A small walk from the Marble Arch will land you in Oxford street. Oxford street, known for its fashion throughout the world. Oxford street will undisputedly take its place in the top five fashion streets on the world. Like high street in New york, or the fashion streets in Paris, Venice or Milan, the shops, the mannequins are all worth watching. A walk will definitely be enjoyable for ladies but for any guy, it might be quite overwhelming due to high crowd. The Oxford street through to Regent street will go to another famous landmark of London, the Piccadilly circus.
Any city, can be visited in by hopping over a siteseeing bus, or by hiring a cab, but hte best way to feel and understand the city is by whalking through the crowd. Same for london, there will be crowd, people performing on the streets, nice shops donning the pavement. Piccadilly circus, with large billboards overseeing you, Ripleys belive it or not museum, a tall statue of cupid will be there to welcome you. One road goes to the famous Leicester square, famous for nice restaurants and China town , one going towards Buckingham palace and one going towards the famous Trafalgar square. On any day, a nice meal at Chinatown wont leave you dissatisfied.
Once you move from Trafalgar square, a walk towards the Big-ben will not only be nice for the eyes, also it will be the walk through the streets of power of the world. You will walk through the Downning street, the parliament square toward the Westminter Abey and Big-Ben. From Big-ben, the bridge will take you to the river thames (the Westminter bridge). A nice sight of the London eye will greet you which is something that will be always carried with your memories.
Hope you enjoyed the walk through London. Will post some pics soon.
Places visit in london
- Marble Arch (Hyde park)
- Oxford stret walk on to Regent street
- Piccadilly Circus
- Trafalgar Square
- Somerset house
- National Gallery
- British Museum
- Buckingham Palace
- Victorial & Albert Museum
- Natural History Museum
- Science Museum
- BigBen/Westmister Abbey
- London Eye
- Tate Gallery
- Shakespeare Globe
- St. Pauls Cathedral
- Tower Bridge & Tower hill
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