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Who hasn't seen the iconic images of London's bright red double
decker buses, its staunch Beefeaters at the Tower of London, Big Ben
overlooking the Thames, and wondered what it's really all about?
Grandeur and glamour sum it up well. London has gorgeous expanses
of park, superb Victorian architecture, more galleries than can
be listed, and a glitzy restaurant and theatre land to rival that
of New York or Paris. But in one of the oldest industrial and imperial
cities of the world, you also have to expect the crowds, the pollution
and the expense. Somehow it's the bustle that shows you London at
its best though: street markets, buskers, old book and antique sellers…a
whole fusion of cultures and characters, in some way bound to capture
a little piece of your heart.
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