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Travelogue

Walking through London, tongue in cheek

Going around is a British invention, not improbable in the land of the cartwheel penny, but
the London Eye tops it all. It earns 25,000 pounds every day. This millennium marker was
supposed to last just five years but has gone around for 17.
T For a city selling Royalty, Londoners John's penthouse, "no one is
he slowly moving Ferris Wheel
there now, of course. it's all
takes 15 minutes to get to the
are pretty tongue-in-cheek while
top and it is fashionable for the
blown in the wind”, the Hard
showing more than 30 million visitors
annually the rear of Buckingham
elite to propose to their sweet-
Rock cafe...the Beatles and
hearts in one of the cabins while
Palace, the gardens open in a
and now John Beatty.
particularly rainless sunny August. Michael Jackson and Madonna
going up, but "it could be the longest 15 They all know the Queen isn't there...
minutes of your life down if she said 'no'", "she prefers to stay away when "Well, we have Ripley's," points
"Well, we have Ripley's," points
as Mathew Samson, a passerby who caught gawking visitors stroll through the out my African Londoner bus
me intently gazing at the marvel, put it.
open palace rooms". driver. It is amazing actually
to see the number of people
Sensibly, no cars and taxis are allowed in ensibly, no cars and taxis are allowed in
S In the lesser palaces, anecdotes on the n the lesser palaces, anecdotes on the swirling around Piccadilly and
I
the visitor interest areas, which keep the m Trafalgar Square, watching
memorable and mad kings; whatever emorable and mad kings; whatever
city very egalitarian, often making one the stories, Londoners do know how to a street play in Hyde Park or
wonder who still lives behind these amuse the stray visitor; theirs is a city getting into the eleven odd
scaffolding-faced granite walls with that thrives on tourism and tall tales. theatres in and around
embroidered doors.
Leicester Square or just
The city knows how to, literally, feed he city knows how to, literally, feed
T watching the jugglers perform-
All the great buildings are being patched the imaginations of visitors, 18,000 ing or walking into China Town.
All the great buildings are being patched
up. Prince Charles' office is unassuming restaurants, some 5,000 pubs and Soho is no longer James Bond's
and he is known to be a vehement critic about 40 cafes and sit-outs per mile. crime scene; it's become an
of London's ugly buildings surrounding elite district.
St Paul's or sandwiched between Globe And the people love to point out Elton
Theatre and ITV.
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-- By Papri Sri Raman- By Papri Sri Raman
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