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London City Guide with Stellar Sights Reversed Logo - white 2 | City Guide / Heading 2 London’s contrasts and cacophonies both infuriate and seduce. 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 Minimum Size London City Guide 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 Pete Doherty, Bow Bells and Big Ben, the Tate Modern and the 2012 Olympics - it all hangs together. Highgate CAMDEN, HAMPSTEAD & 0 2 km PRIMROSE HILL 0 1 mile Hampstead West Hampstead Gospel OakKentish Belsize Camden Town Barnsbury Hackney Park Kingsland KING’S CROSS & ISLINGTON King’s Cross Hoxton Bow St John’s HOXTON, Kilburn Wood Finsbury SHOREDITCH Maida Vale MARYLEBONE Clerkenwell& SPITALFIELDS Westbourne & REGENT’S PARK BLOOMSBURY Grove & FITZROVIA THE CITY, Marylebone Bloomsbury HOLBORN & Fitzrovia Whitechapel Paddington CLERKENWELL Limehouse Notting NOTTING HILL SOHO & City Poplar Hill & BAYSWATER COVENT Bayswater GARDEN mes Tha MAYFAIR, South Southwark Wapping Canary Kensington Knightsbridge ST JAMES’S & Bank Wharf WESTMINSTER Borough GREENWICH & KNIGHTSBRIDGE, CHELSEA, SOUTH Bermondsey Rotherhithe DOCKLANDS SOUTH KENSINGTON Belgravia Westminster BANK & PIMLICO Isle Earl’s Lambeth of Dogs Court South Kensington Chelsea West Brompton Deptford Fulham Nine Camberwell Greenwich Battersea Elms Friday night drinks at The Salisbury in Covent Garden 2 | London City Guide / Facts For The Visitor ‘When a man is tired of London, he is tired of life; for there is in London all Facts & Figures that life can afford.’ SAMUEL JOHNSON Population: 7,500,000 Latitude: 51.50 Longitude: -0.12 Area: 1572 sq km Timezone: GMT/UTC 0 Daylight savingsBreakout box starts: last Sunday in March ends: last Sunday in October Weights & Measures: metric Metric is used for all measurements with the exception of beer and milk, which are measured in pints, and distances, which are still measured in miles Electricity: 240V, 50Hz Area code: 020 Dialling out: 00 Orientation Friday night drinks at The Salisbury in Covent Garden The main geographical feature of the city is the River Thames, which meanders through central mix of poor, dirty, graffiti-ridden suburbs, and RELATIVE COST (ROOMS) London, dividing it into northern and southern Religion: Christian (58%), No Religion (16%), increasingly gentrifying areas like Clapham and, Muslim (7%), Hindu (4%), Jewish (2%), Sikh > Low £20-80 halves. The central area and the greatest number to an extent, Brixton. of important sights, theatres and restaurants are (2%), Other (11%). > Mid £80-120 within the Underground’s Circle Line on the north > High £120-150 bank of the river. In the past decade, however, Society Money > Deluxe £150+ the south bank of the river has been transformed People: Anglo-Saxon, Irish, Indian, Pakistani, Currency Code: GBP RELATIVE COST (MEALS) into one of London’s must-see district with Bangladeshi, Sri Lankan, Arab, South Asian, attractions such as Borough Market, the London Currency name: Pound Sterling > Low £8-12 African, Caribbean, Chinese, Filipino, Japanese, Currency symbol: £ Eye, Shakespeare’s Globe Theatre and the Tate Russian, Polish, Vietnamese, Other. > Mid £12-20 Modern art gallery. The tourist-ridden West Currency unit: Pound > High £20-35 End includes Soho, Trafalgar Square, Piccadilly > Deluxe £35+ Circus, Leicester Square and Regent St. The Languages spoken: English (official) SAMPLE PRICES East End, so beloved of Ealing comedies, lies Perhaps England’s greatest cultural export has > Pint of lager £3.50 TIPPING been the English language, the current lingua east of the Circle Line; it used to be the exclusive > Movie ticket £9 Many restaurants now add a ‘discretionary’ franca of the international community. There are preserve of the Cockney but is now a cultural > Coffee in the West End £2.50 service charge to your bill, but in places that astonishing regional variations in accents, and it melting pot. There are interesting inner-city > Short ride on the Tube £4 don’t, you are expected to leave a 10% to is not unusual to find those in southern England suburbs in North London, including Islington > Admission to a big-name club 15% tip unless the service was unsatisfactory. claiming to need an interpreter to communicate and Camden Town, with leafy Hampstead on a Friday £15 Waiting staff are often paid derisory wages with anyone living north of Oxford. further north. Further south, London includes a > Admission to British Museum free on the assumption that the money will be 3 | London City Guide / Before You Go supplemented by tips. You never tip to have for stays in the UK up to six months, but they SWIMMING your pint pulled in a pub. If you take a boat trip are prohibited from working. Citizens of the North of the centre, Highgate Ponds on Health & Safety on the Thames you’ll find some guides and/or European Union (EU) don’t need a visa to enter Hampstead Heath offer open-air swimming all Considering its size and the great disparities in drivers importuning for a tip in return for their the country and may live and work here freely. year round. Otherwise, take a dip in Ironmonger wealth, London is a remarkably safe city; it has commentary. Whether you pay is up to you. You Row Baths or the Art Deco Porchester Spa. one of the lowest murder rates in the developed can tip taxi drivers up to 10% but most people world. Nevertheless, you should take the usual round up to the nearest pound. Activities HORSE RIDING precautionary measures against pickpockets who operate in crowded public places such as If beer and chips are adding excess to your Aristocrats of the 19th century used to waistline, London offers a number of ways to the Underground and major tourist attractions. Before You Go promenade on horseback along the paths At night, a bus or taxi can be a safer option work it off. Take out a rowboat for a dreamy drift of Hyde Park. If you want to follow in their WHEN TO GO after a picnic or promenade with a pipe in Hyde than the Tube. hoofprints, steeds can be hired by the hour. A major London hazard remains its traffic. London is a year-round tourist centre, with few Park. Or hire a nag and go for a canter. Remember to look right before crossing its highly of its attractions closing or significantly reducing GYM congested roads, and don’t expect mercy from their opening hours in winter. Your best chance PADDLE BOATING Many hotels in London lack gym facilities. If couriers or taxi drivers. of good weather is, of course, at the height of If you feel like a paddle on the water, hire a you’re missing your work-out try the popular summer in July and August, but there’s certainly pedalo for an hour or two and go boating on the Oasis Sports Centre in Covent Garden, which no guarantee of sun even in those months - plus Serpentine in Hyde Park. has everything a healthy heart desires. Events it’s when you can expect the biggest crowds and Most businesses close on public holidays highest prices. CYCLING ROLLER SKATING such as New Year’s Day, Good Friday, Easter You can hire a bike practically anywhere in the Monday, May Day Bank Holiday (the first VISAS OVERVIEW Join packs of roller-blade enthusiasts in Hyde city, although if you’re planning to ride in traffic Park - every Friday evening there’s a communal Monday in May), Spring Bank Holiday (the last Citizens of the USA, Canada, Australia, New you might be taking your life in your hands. It skate starting out at Wellington Arch. Monday in May), Summer Bank Holiday (the last Zealand and South Africa do not need a visa may be wiser to stick to the parks. Monday in August), Christmas Day and Boxing WALKING Day (26 December) although London’s essential multiculturalism means you’ll always find some It’s good for the constitution, and London’s parks shops open. - especially Hyde Park and Regents Park - are There are countless festivals and events in delightful settings for a stroll. London. It all kicks off with the New Year’s Eve fireworks and street party in Trafalgar Square, Transport followed by the New Year’s Day Parade. On GETTING THERE AND AWAY Shrove Tuesday pancake races are held in Covent Garden, and in early May more serious London is one of the world’s major transport racers take part in the London Marathon. hubs, and your choices of ways to get in and All London gets its colours on for the FA Cup out of it are myriad. Its major airports - the Final in mid-May. There’s even more colour at monster Heathrow and the smaller Gatwick, the Chelsea Flower Show, held in the last week Stanstead, Luton and City - are all efficiently of May. linked to the metropolis. You’ve always been Trooping the Colour, the Queen’s birthday able to hop to the European mainland (and parade, is held in June; Wimbledon runs for Ireland) by ferry, but now the Chunnel link two weeks in the same month and London makes it a breeze. Pride, Europe’s biggest gay and lesbian festival, also hits the streets. The raucous Notting GETTING AROUND Hill Carnival takes over the West End streets Getting around London is often best left to in August, although there is now a smaller the experts. Hop on a bus, a Thames ferry or celebration in Hyde Park, too.
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