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 [...]

Certain cultures give off different feelings to the viewer, resonate different auras. Two places, that are only a few hundred metres apart geographically, can give off a totally different emotional response on an outsider. After London, I took a train along the coast to Scotland. I instantly fell in love with the area and all [...]

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 [...]

BREAKFAST IN HOLYWOOD Panini, a small shop in a town 6 miles east of Belfast, Northern Ireland, is an Italianate delicatessen stocked with dried pasta, salad dressings, a wide variety of Olive oil, and cooked meats from continental Europe. Inside there are three raised tables and a counter bar and outside, three wrought iron tables. [...]

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 [...]

A guide to hotels, inns, restaurants and guest houses is available from the tourist office. Some hotels have special weekend rates from $200 a person, which usually includes all meals from dinner on Friday thru lunch on Sunday. Other hotels start at Eur70 to Eur80 a day, based on double occupancy. Findel Airport is four [...]