London: Notable neighborhoods
Sometimes an entire neighborhood is a sight in and of itself
Sometimes an entire neighborhood is a sight in and of itself
Spend a day in Greenwich, a Thameside village on London's eastern outskirts by which the world sets it clocks, with a rich maritime history, stellar little museums, and the Prime Meridian
A bustling plaza of buskers, tourists, theatre-goers, and pub crawlers at the heart of London's West End
London's old Bohemian neighborhood is firmly in the tourist and nightlife zone now, but still packed with great cheap eateries
Harrods of London installed a novelty in 1898: the world's first true escalator (to be fair, an inclined moving belt with metal bars for traction did make its debut two years earlier on Coney Island). The oddness of a moving staircase so unnerved many shoppers that employees were stationed near it with smelling salts and cognac to help revive those overcome with fear.