Best Views In London
London is vast, but it is easy to forget just how vast. In fact it’s only when you get up high that anyone can start to really understand just how big our city is.
London is vast, but it is easy to forget just how vast. In fact it’s only when you get up high that anyone can start to really understand just how big our city is.
If the plethora of adverts on the Underground are to be believed it seems people have become incapable of meeting each other without the help of a dating.com.
You don’t end up with a city population of over 8 million without attracting people with some unusual interests and passions. This is of course one of the many reasons we all love London – it can be home for all: the masses and the individual, the average and the eccentric.
For Londoners 277 is an important number, but most won't have a clue why. It just so happens that 277 is the number of hours the average Londoner spends commuting to and from work each year.
Mind the Gap. Wait for the green man. Caution: coffee is (not surprisingly!) hot. Don’t use heavy machinery under the influence. The world is full of don’ts, health and safety warnings and protection measures designed to keep us safe, keep us healthy and – perhaps most importantly for those with the signs – to keep us from suing.
Now I always believed that the twelve days of Christmas started on the 13th of December (twelve days before the 25th). Apparently not; the gods of Wikipedia tell me that the days in the song begin on Christmas Day and carry on through into early January.