Guidebook for Greater London

Chris
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.
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Trafalgar Square (Stop B) station
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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.
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Buckingham Palace
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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.
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I-British Museum
Great Russell Street
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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.

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.
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Old Compton Street
Old Compton Street
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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.
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.
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Shepherd Market
Shepherd Market
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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.

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.
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Piccadilly Circus Station
Piccadilly Circus
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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.
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.
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Leicester Square
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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.
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Chinatown Bakery
7-9 Newport Pl
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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.
Loads of shopping, street acts, markets, people, cobblestones. It's a calming walk around life in Covent Garden which offers many characters, all friendly.
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Covent Garden
41 James St
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Loads 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.
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Burlington Arcade
51 Piccadilly
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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.
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
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Hunterian Museum
43 Lincoln's Inn Fields
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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
I love suits. Go and check out some tailoring and fine schmutter on Saville Row. Ignore the high street brands putting up camp.
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Savile Row
Savile Row
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I 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.
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Bond Street
Oxford Street
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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.

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.
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Ronnie Scott's Jazz Club
47 Frith St
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Londons 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.
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Bar Italia
22 Frith St
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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.

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
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Hamleys
188-196 Regent St.
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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