Louise H: Incredible buildings for a museum. A bit crowded considering it's free, which makes a visit a bit stressful and it's hard to go in depth with the works
Department Store · Kensington and Chelsea · 1113 tips and reviews
Louise H: The suitcase with the portable desk and chair in the luggage department is amazing! Not so amazing is the fact that you can buy a puppy in a department store - makes me sad!
Unit 34a, Trocadero Centre, Rupert St, London, Greater London
Sushi Restaurant · Piccadilly · 22 tips and reviews
Louise H: Just died and went to sushi heaven: All you can eat off the belt for £18,50 Tues-Thurs - simply amazing! Also loved the personal water-tabs with both still and fizzy water at the seats!
Theater · Holborn and Covent Garden · 24 tips and reviews
Louise H: Saw STOMP and it was just amazing! Thank you for a great show - completely forgot everything about time and space! (When sitting at stalls you can't see upwards on the stage.)
Louise H: A lot of waiting for an empty shuttle to the immigration hall where there were more waiting in looong lines to enter UK. Also a bit frightening to be welcomed by policemen with machine guns
HISTORY UK: Piccadilly is named after a type of broad lace collar fashionable in the early 17th century, the ‘piccadil’. The best examples were sold by a local tailor whose shop became known as Piccadilly Hall.
Shopping Plaza · City of Westminster · 375 tips and reviews
HISTORY UK: The square here was laid out by Inigo Jones in 1630, on land once used by the monks of Westminster Abbey as a garden, but confiscated by Henry VIII during the Reformation.
HISTORY UK: The iconic bridge (opened 1894) still gives priority to river traffic, and is raised on average 3 times a day. In 1997 it split the motorcade of US President Bill Clinton, causing some alarm.
HISTORY UK: Westminster Abbey was built by Edward the Confessor and completed just before his death in 1065. Since William the Conqueror all the kings & queens of England have been crowned here.
HISTORY UK: 175-9 Oxford St, now a retail and office development, was in 1912 the site of the world’s first ever motor museum, and included Britain’s first ever petrol-engined car, the 1894 Bremer.
HISTORY UK: This area was named after Leicester House, the London mansion home of the Earl of Leicester built in 1635. But by 1800 it was a home of popular entertainment and theatres, and has never looked back.
Capitol Building · Westminster · 106 tips and reviews
HISTORY UK: The stretch of the Thames alongside the Houses of Parliament is the only restricted area of the river, due to obvious security concerns. River traffic must keep to the east bank.
Road · Spitalfields and Banglatown · 56 tips and reviews
HISTORY UK: This road was used as the route for transporting bricks after the Great Fire of London in 1666, hence the name. It now boasts the greatest concentration of curry houses in Britain.
Millennium Bridge (btwn St Paul's and Bankside), London, Greater London
Bridge · South Bank · 154 tips and reviews
HISTORY UK: The bridge had to close within days of its opening in 2000 because of a slight wobble, which caused people to walk in step with each other, causing the wobble to become much worse!