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A dem fine piece of engineering, wot!

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Westminster, London

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Each of the new stations [...]

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 [...]

Best station to see God

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Canary Wharf
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“Coming over the water and into that high skylit ceiling [...]

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 [...]

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. [...]

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 [...]