Description A dem fine piece of engineering, wot! Address Westminster, London Phone   Email   Price Range A tube ticket! Text Each of the new stations of the Jubilee line extension must surely qualify as modern works of art in steel and glass. Their scale is huge in an otherwise human-sized city, dwarfing and [...]

Ok, so if you’re running late in the morning, buying your favourite newspaper is the last thing on your mind, and fighting for the last Metro beneath you. But avoiding the gazes of others who didn’t get up when the alarm went off isn’t the best way to spend your journey either. Nor is daydreaming [...]

Best station to see God Medal of honour Canary Wharf Comments from cadets “Coming over the water and into that high skylit ceiling is amazing!” “As you ascend the huge escalator it’s like you’re ascending to heaven.” Commendation Angel   Most confusing station Medal of Honour Bank/Monument Comments from cadets “Is it one station? Is [...]

For a really different prehistoric experience, consider time travel at the Jorvik Viking Centre in York, England, devoted to the Viking City that was, in theearly Christian period, York, or Yorvik. Here you seat yourself in an electric cart and move quickly through the scenes typical, first, of 1976, when the archaeological digbegan, then the [...]

Once inside, visitors could marvel over "Ludlow Man," the body of a Kelt ritually murdered and preserved in a bog, a man whose stomach was found to contain mistletoe pollen from the drink administered, probably by Druids (to whom mistletoe was sacred), before his death. He was stunned by blows to the head, then garroted, [...]

Our helpful guide explodes some of the more bizarre and disturbing stories about the tube. Each story gets a plausibility rating of between 1 and 10 (1 being extremely implausible and 10 being highly probable). 1. If London suffered a month’s rain in one day, the Thames would overflow and flood the tube network. Plausibility [...]

Some find them irritating; others are soothed by them on their rush hour commute. Whatever your opinion, buskers are an integral part of the London Underground experience. A new scheme aims to license the guerrilla musicians in a move to regulate the music. Until recently, buskers hopped from station to station, and played for the [...]

I always give some spare change to buskers on the tube or on the street–that is, if they’re any good. My colleagues are a bit surprised by this, but fortunately they don’t ask me why. You see, it’s because I used to be a busker too. When I came to London, I discovered that a [...]

Incidentally, kudos to British Airways: on the flight home, I absent-mindedly left in the overhead rack two Japanese paper lampshades I had purchased at Spitalfields. The following morning I called the airline in Boston. A human voice responded, the lampshades were there in baggage, and safely delivered to me the next day. London has come [...]

London has its grand underview, too. At Spitalfields great public weekend market, the hundreds of individual stalls offered everything from furniture, antiques, clothes, ethnic arts & crafts, small appliances, Scot wools & Cotswold wools, to nuts and bolts, and all at prices you couldn’t afford not to buy. The Sunday morning Columbia Road Flower Market [...]