The image above shows London from space, as taken from the International Space Station on 2 February, The first things you notice are the oddly comforting boundary of the M25 circling everything though it goes a bit dark to the southeast and the Thames, jaggedly bisecting the centre. Look a bit closer, though, and a few other things start to stick out. First, colour: most of the lights are a pale yellow, building to a white roar in the busiest spots.
But there are also occasional blips of other colours, mostly red, purple and green. In general, these mark out large monuments or buildings, colourfully lit up to attract attention. But for some of the best sights you might like to get the RV1 bus from Tower Hill to Covent Garden ; crossing over Tower Bridge , going along the Southbank then crossing back over Waterloo Bridge and finishing in Covent Garden or going the other way.
This post on Londonist also has a great list of different bus lines to catch for sightseeing! Nothing makes it more obvious that you are a tourist than walking around with a paper map or guidebook! Instead, make Google Maps available offline if you are using a foreign sim, or get your phone unlocked very cheaply at the little tourist shops you will see all over the place. This is actually the one time where it can be beneficial to go to a tourist shop! Make sure you also have headphones in so you can listen to music and avoid eye contact with everybody on the tube at the same time — just like the locals do!
Now, apart from being a great place where you will be able to find a place to unlock your phone, Oxford Street is generally not a place to go if you want to blend in with the locals in London.
It is always incredibly crowded and usually very expensive. If you are interested in shopping in London there are many more interesting and unique places than Oxford Street. Head to one of the many markets Camden is great for clothing and loved by locals and tourists alike or, if you want to see the posh part of London shopping; Harrods, Liberty or Fortnum and Mason.
Another spot to avoid unless you want to be surrounded by other tourists and pay ridiculous prices for sub-par food and entertainment is Leicester Square. Unless you are travelling to London specifically to spot a movie star at a film premiere in which case feel free to queue here for hours you should also avoid the movie theatres here. For a much more fun and less expensive experience, that the locals also love, you could see a movie at Electric Cinema in their Portobello or Shoreditch locations.
With comfy couches, footstools and even beds in the front row this is a movie location with a difference! London has some of the best and most interesting museums in the world, and best of all most of them are completely free to visit!
While you should definitely visit the ones you are interested in at any time, in order to look very casual and not look like a tourist in London, why not see if you can go along to one of their special night-time events? As an Aussie, seeing urban foxes casually walking down the street in the middle of the day, or sleeping on top of the shed in my backyard true story!
But to most Londoners, foxes are a nuisance and they can actually be a bit dangerous. So if you really must get a photo then do so, but, you know, be cool. He says that when he spends time in London, he likes to entertain visitors from his homeland. There are around 40 flights a day from Poland to London, the majority of which are operated by low-cost airlines.
Those flights are full of bright young Poles with their eyes on the opportunities — and the way of life — London offers. In , 4. But today, looking back at their experiences, many returning Poles admit London was not always the dream town they had imagined. Olga Kaczmarek, an anthropologist at the University of Warsaw, says that before Poland entered the EU, a visit to London was a sign of prestige.
This has won him kudos in the world of luxury business as he prepares to launch a retail showcase for international couture brands that have until now have had no presence in his native Mexico. For many Mexicans, however, the UK capital is less about novelty than tradition.
Everyone knows Britain has a queen and that London is the capital, and they might be familiar with the London Olympics, but British people know more about Mexico than anyone in Mexico knows about Britain and London. Most Mexicans, though, live in the shadow of the US. But in protocol-loving Mexico, London has one enduring merit.
Many Kenyans keen to visit London despair of visa woes, turned down seemingly without reason despite having waited in long queues and paid hefty upfront fees. But for many, London remains home from home. Chris Foot, the son of a Kenyan mother and an English father who took up Kenyan citizenship on independence from Britain in , likens the relationship to home comforts. The entrepreneur, now in his early 40s, went to school in the UK aged Hampton by Hilton London Park Royal.
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