Guidebook for Greater London
Sightseeing
You have to go to Trafalgar Square! The National Gallery is there and it's free and full of beautiful paintings from many epochs.
634 locals recommend
Trafalgar Square (Stop B) station
You have to go to Trafalgar Square! The National Gallery is there and it's free and full of beautiful paintings from many epochs.
This is where the Queen lives if you want to see it. Possibly worth a look at it's blandness. Looks more suited to a telephone exchange than a place for queens and kings, etc.
1912 locals recommend
Buckingham Palace
This is where the Queen lives if you want to see it. Possibly worth a look at it's blandness. Looks more suited to a telephone exchange than a place for queens and kings, etc.
You see an empire proclaiming it's knowledge too the world when you first witness this building. In a few moments such grandeur seems quite silly, embarrassing even. Glory and conquer show. Lovely.
1546 locals recommend
British Museum
Great Russell StreetYou see an empire proclaiming it's knowledge too the world when you first witness this building. In a few moments such grandeur seems quite silly, embarrassing even. Glory and conquer show. Lovely.
Drinks & Nightlife
The heart of Soho's daytime cafe culture and evening bar & restaurant culture. You can see it from the window it's so close. 5 min walk to most big theatres from here too.
29 locals recommend
Old Compton Street
Old Compton StreetThe heart of Soho's daytime cafe culture and evening bar & restaurant culture. You can see it from the window it's so close. 5 min walk to most big theatres from here too.
This precious pearl of Mayfair is a couple of magnificent streets of great nights out. Food, drink, and strangeness. Almost a time warp. Like a secret Soho.
19 locals recommend
Shepherd Market
Shepherd MarketThis precious pearl of Mayfair is a couple of magnificent streets of great nights out. Food, drink, and strangeness. Almost a time warp. Like a secret Soho.
Everything Else
A place curiously famous for having big, illuminated advertisments. Of more interest is the Eros sculture across the road and how the mixed colours of the lights make it dance in a neon sky.
142 locals recommend
Piccadilly Circus Station
Piccadilly CircusA place curiously famous for having big, illuminated advertisments. Of more interest is the Eros sculture across the road and how the mixed colours of the lights make it dance in a neon sky.
Leicester Sq used to be beautiful with a big old iron fence. The local council made it rubbish. Still worth a wander to see 1000's of other people wandering. Cinemas, casino's, clubs.
319 locals recommend
Leicester Square
Leicester Sq used to be beautiful with a big old iron fence. The local council made it rubbish. Still worth a wander to see 1000's of other people wandering. Cinemas, casino's, clubs.
Rupert St runs down into Chinatown, London's resiliant Chinese community with restaurants, markets and shops to turn normal people into dolls. Massage shops, good eating and fun. I walk there daily.
10 locals recommend
Chinatown Bakery
7-9 Newport PlRupert St runs down into Chinatown, London's resiliant Chinese community with restaurants, markets and shops to turn normal people into dolls. Massage shops, good eating and fun. I walk there daily.
Loads of shopping, street acts, markets, people, cobblestones. It's a calming walk around life in Covent Garden which offers many characters, all friendly.
955 locals recommend
Covent Garden
41 James StLoads of shopping, street acts, markets, people, cobblestones. It's a calming walk around life in Covent Garden which offers many characters, all friendly.
There's 3 of these beautiful Victorian arcades off Piccadilly and they offer super expensive treats in sumptuous kitsch excessive surroundings. Men in cloaks and hats stand at the entrance. Glorious.
17 locals recommend
Burlington Arcade
51 PiccadillyThere's 3 of these beautiful Victorian arcades off Piccadilly and they offer super expensive treats in sumptuous kitsch excessive surroundings. Men in cloaks and hats stand at the entrance. Glorious.
Lots of old stuff from the college of surgeons in the adjoining building. Grotesque history of putting halves of animals in jars. Amazing little place. Free
15 locals recommend
Hunterian Museum
43 Lincoln's Inn FieldsLots of old stuff from the college of surgeons in the adjoining building. Grotesque history of putting halves of animals in jars. Amazing little place. Free
I love suits. Go and check out some tailoring and fine schmutter on Saville Row. Ignore the high street brands putting up camp.
14 locals recommend
Savile Row
Savile RowI love suits. Go and check out some tailoring and fine schmutter on Saville Row. Ignore the high street brands putting up camp.
I walk up and down Bond street imagining what it must be like to spend such money on things. Clothes and Jewellery for people the likes of whom I've never met.
292 locals recommend
Bond Street
Oxford StreetI walk up and down Bond street imagining what it must be like to spend such money on things. Clothes and Jewellery for people the likes of whom I've never met.
Arts & Culture
Londons former Jazz cub for decades. Go for a quick dance, a few glasses and a dance. Unless that is creepy to you.
123 locals recommend
Ronnie Scott's Jazz Club
47 Frith StLondons former Jazz cub for decades. Go for a quick dance, a few glasses and a dance. Unless that is creepy to you.
Food Scene
Sohos all night Italian Cafe. Loved by all the residents and tourists alike. Pulp wrote a song about it. Lovely London at it's friendliest.
29 locals recommend
Bar Italia
22 Frith StSohos all night Italian Cafe. Loved by all the residents and tourists alike. Pulp wrote a song about it. Lovely London at it's friendliest.
Shopping
World famous toy shop. It's capitalism at it's most engaging: toys. We don;t know why we like them but we do. Millions of them here and loads of demonstrations and chances to break toys - accidentally
76 locals recommend
Hamleys
188-196 Regent St.World famous toy shop. It's capitalism at it's most engaging: toys. We don;t know why we like them but we do. Millions of them here and loads of demonstrations and chances to break toys - accidentally