London Travel
Should I Get Travel Insurance for my Vacation in the UK?
Make sure you get your travel insurance completely prepared before you leave for the UK.
While the UK is safer than most places, you still have a chance of getting mugged if you decide to walk the streets at night for any reason. To make things...
Travel: London - 10 (Thousand) Things To Do
If you have five years for a vacation you might be able to see about half of what London has to offer. No matter your tastes - whether modern or classical art, monuments and museums, zoos and gardens, nightclubs, theater, music, and on and on - it's...
Travel: London - Buckingham Palace
Though one of the most popular tourist attractions in London, Buckingham Palace is still the official residence of Britain's monarchy, as it has been since Queen Victoria's designation in 1837.
Much of the building was constructed as early as...
Travel: London - Harrods
Much of London, for the tourist anyway, is historical. Ancient buildings and centuries old monuments. Palaces and works of art from the ages. But not Harrods. Harrods, even while its origins are from over 150 years ago, is as up-to-date as the...
Travel: London - Hyde Park
Perhaps most famous for the Speaker's Corner, where citizens stand atop a soapbox and shout their views to the crowd, there's much more to see and do here than listen to political opinions.
The land forming the park was first acquired by Henry...
Travel: London - Kensington Palace/Kensington Gardens
Kensington Palace has been home to royalty from long before Queen Victoria's birth there in 1819 to Princess Diana's residence until her death to today.
Still in use as a working Royal Residence, there are nonetheless many areas open to public...
Travel: London - Madame Tussaud's/London Planetarium
Madame Tussaud's Wax Museum is one of the very few attractions in London that is both centuries old and completely modern.
Madame Tussaud learned her unusual craft of modeling figures in wax by creating death masks of those executed by...
Travel: London - Piccadilly Circus
At the junction of Regent Street and Shaftesbury Avenue lies a trapezoidal area near London's West End known to the world as Piccadilly Circus.
It's an odd name, since there's no circus there, but even odder is that 'circus' usually denotes a...
Travel: London - The British Museum
Like most museums in London, The British Museum is free of admission (though some events and special exhibitions have an admission charge). But were it the most expensive attraction in the city, it would be worth the price. Often rated the number...
Travel: London - The London Eye
One of the best ways to see London is from the air. Unfortunately, that was fairly difficult until recently. Now it's as easy as stepping onto a platform that moves slower than the average escalator into the London Eye pod.
The London Eye can...
Travel: London - The National Gallery
Throughout its troubled history, the National Gallery in London has persevered to maintain one of the greatest art collections in the world.
Having no Royal collection with which to begin, the museum found its start with the purchase of a mere...
Travel: London - The Natural History Museum
Since its founding in the mid-19th century, the Natural History museum has offered one of the largest, most diverse collections in the world. The dinosaur exhibits are world-renowned, but there are dozens of others equally deserving of a visit.
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Travel: London - The Nature Experience
London has such a long history, filled with great churches, monuments, art and history museums that seeking nature here often isn't what immediately comes to mind. But that's an error, since London is home to one of the oldest zoos in existence and...
Travel: London - The Tower of London
Few prisons can claim to be as popular as the Tower of London, an attraction - unpleasant for some - for over 900 years. Its twenty towers are filled with an ancient tradition of royal blood, armor and jewels and the history to match.
The...
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