Markets in London are described to have their origin as back as from the Middle Ages and ancient period .Over the time from middle ages some areas and sectors of London have emerged as wholesale market others have created niche as special and broad segment market. More to these expandable markets in 18th and 19th centuries, there a cult of street markets has also developed over the time and span of period. However, with markets as available there for daily tourists they are to be found in London are being as:

•Camden Passage Market: This market located at Islington High Street and Camden Passage has its origins back to 1960s when small shop and stall holders collated together to make a market as to deal with antiques and collectables. Wednesdays and Saturdays is the best time to go for collectables. Thursday is the time for book market, whereas fashion accessories stalls come on Fridays and mixed craft/fashion/antiques on Sundays.

•Petticoat Lane Market: This cloth market is located at Wentworth Street and Middlesex Street in East London.

•Portobello Road Market: These market sales out antiques and is situated at Notting Hill area of West London. The fine day to travel this market is Saturday.

•Old Spitalfields Market: This market is situated at Crispin Place in East London and is one of the busiest London market on Sunday and keeps hundred of stalls with specialization in Fashion, art and design with restaurants and food all provided under one place and spot.

•Columbia Road Market: This market started as back as in 19th century is a follower market that sales produce on Sunday acquired from nearby Spitalfields.

•Covent Garden Market: Initially, a flower market, operating from West End it has now been relocated to New Covent Garden Market, Vauxhall in south London. Its original building now is a shopping and tourist area with some shops and with an indoor market selling jewelry, specialty soaps, tourist souvenirs, etc.

•Bermondsey Market: This market is situated at Tower Bridge Road in Bermondsey, South London and caters to commodities like antiques, originally sold under the rules of market overt.

•Brick Lane Market: Situated at the northern end of Brick Lane along Cheshire Street in East London. This market developed was developed in the 17th century for purpose of collecting fruit and vegetables.

•Camden Lock Market: It is located next to Regent’s Canal in Camden Town, North West London. It sales out general goods, music, collectables, jewelry, incense and clothing.

•Greenwich Market: Situated at Greenwich, South East London, this market deals into antiques, arts, and crafts.

Another way to get better feel of the city of London other than commercial bus tours is buying an Oyster card and have a ride around London in on the top deck of standard London buses. In case, if the tours on standard London busses appear to be a bit boring than in such a condition you can go for a commercial tour for better understanding and learning of the city.

•Open Top Bus Tour: There are provided a good number of buses to tour operator to have an open bus tour of the city. These tours are consisting of The Original Tour and The Big Bus Company.

•London Ducktours: In order to have a view of London by boat one can have help from various number of London Duck tours for help and assistance.

•London Movie Tours: As London is the third busiest filming location in the world and there is a good number of famous film locations to visit from movies like Bridget Jones’s Diary, The Da Vinci Code and Sherlock Holmes. So one can roam there as provided in the tour of the city.

•Architectural Tours: These tours take place on every Saturday morning and therefore provide opportunity to take experience into London’s experiment at first hand and to ease of the tourists. The tour guides there happen to be architects, architectural writers or architectural historians. On an Architectural tour the prominent places to be roamed and toured regularly are The Square Miles, Edges of the City, Westminster and Docklands.

•London Tours: More you can have private walking tours in guidance and aid with an experienced tour guide and keeps on thronging daily through out the year.

•London Olympics Tour: For an interesting tour of London 2012 Olympic Games venue in London, there a good number of professional and credible services are provided. These tours are carried out by the experienced and knowledgeable tour guides; there Olympics take a person along the Lower River Lee Valley along the Olympic Park.

•City of London Walking Tour: The City of London is the key financial center with trend going in history back to ancient Roman Times. There on the tour one can have two hour guided walk as to look out the beautiful garden and planted areas around the cities huge official buildings. The features of the city garden walk are Victorian gardens as formed from churchyards, gardens on wasteland after World War II bombings and Gardens related to new high tech office buildings.

•Theatre Land Walking Tour: This tour of London, takes you to walking tour of Covent Garden and Lecicester Square. There one can learn about the history of some of the West End’s best theatres and can enjoy stories about flamboyant actors and theatre ghosts.

•Houses of Parliament Tour: These tour help as to discover and enjoy the nearly 1,000 years of British history. Under the guidance of guide you can have the tour of parliament at the spots and places like Lords and Commons Chambers, Westminster Hall, Queen’s Robing Room, Royal Gallery, Peers’ Lobby, Central Lobby, Members’ Lobby, St Stephen’s Hal.

London museums are very true to the definition of museum as place for collection of objects of scientific, artistic or historical importance with objective to make them available for public viewing by exhibits that occur to be permanent or as of a temporary nature. London has hundred of museums and exhibitions of larger as well as smaller size. Here brief of some of the prominent museums of London is provided for reader’s interest as to acquaint them with history and tradition of London as well as the United States.

• British Museum: This museum showcases the human history and culture exhibits from more than seven million in numbers from all continents. One of the largest museums in the world, it keeps the entire history of human civilization from ancient to modern period preserved in documentations and collections. It was founded in 1753, initially on the collection of the physician and scientist Sir Hans Sloane. It was open for public on 15th January 1759 in Montagu House in Bloomsbury. Though during the century long history it developed into a several branch institutions and its first branch was British Museum (Natural History) in South Kensington in 1887.    It is a non departmental public body sponsored by the Department for Culture, Media and Sport and has no admission fee to visit this museum.  Since 2002 the director of the museum has been Neil MacGregor.

• Churchill War Rooms: This Museum in London is one of the five branches of the Imperial War Museum.  This particular museum is consisted of Cabinet War Rooms, a historic underground complex containing British government command center during the Second World War, and the Churchill Museum, a biographical museum exploring the life of British statesman Winston Churchill. The Cabinet war rooms hence were constructed below the Treasury building in the Whitehall area of Westminster in 1938 and became operational from August 1939 just before the start of the war in Europe. And were in operation during entire period of Second World War II, before they were surrendered in August 1945 after the surrender of Japan. As a branch of a national museum, the Churchill War Rooms is supported by the Department for Culture, Media and Sport, by admissions income and the museum’s commercial activity.

• Imperial War Museum : It is a British national museum that has branches spread about at five different places in England. Among its five branches five are situated in London itself.  This museum was started back during the period of First World War in 1971 with objective to preserve effort and sacrifice put down by Britain and her Empire during the war.  The museum tells people about informed information of modern war and its impact over individuals and society. In start museum started at Crystal Palace at Sydenham Hill, and it opened to the public in 1920. It works as a charity under the Charities Act of 1993 as a non departmental public body under the Department for Culture, Media and Sport.

• London Transport Museum: Situated at Covent Garden, London this museum tell all in entirely about the transport heritage of Britain’s capital city. Initially, museum had collection of London Transport; however, with expansion of creation of Transport for London (TFL) in 2000, the museum has expanded to cover all the import aspects of transportation in the city. Later on museum was renamed as to cover topics beyond London as London’ Transport Museum.

• Museum of London: This museum showcases the history of London from the Prehistoric period to the present time. It is situated close to Barbican Center as is a few minutes’ walk north of St Paul’s Cathedral. The museum is a non-departmental public body.

• National Maritime Museum : It is a  maritime museum of its type in National Maritime Museum (NMM) in Greenwich, England and is the one of the best museum its type in the world. It is a non-departmental public body sponsored by the Department for Culture, Media and Sport. It has  around two million items including maritime art cartography, manuscripts that contains official public records, ship models and plans, scientific and navigational instruments, instruments for time-keeping and astronomy.

• Natural History Museum: It is situated on Exhibition Road, South Kensington, London, England  houses around exhibits from life and earth science specimens combining nearly 70 million items primarily divided into categories like Botany, Entomology, Mineralogy, Palaeontology and Zoology. It is a world famous center of research, specialising in taxonomy, identification and conservation. Its many collections have intensive historical as well as scientific value like as specimens of Darwin. It contains extensive books, journals, manuscripts and artwork collections as aligning to different scientific departments.

• Science Museums : It is too located at Exhibition Road, South Kensington, London in The Royal Borough of Kensington & Chelsea. It is part of the National Museum of Science and Industry. It holds a collection of around 300,000 items, involving famous items like as Stephenson’s Rocket, Puffing Billy, the first jet engine and many other wonderful scientific exhibits.

• Sir John Soane Museum: It is a museum of architecture and formerly was the house and studio of the neo-classical architect Sir John Soane. This museum keeps collection of many a number of drawings and antiquities as collected by him. It is located at Holborn district of central London, England. It is a non non-departmental public body sponsored by the Department for Culture, Media and sport.

• Victoria & Albert Museums: It is situated at The Royal Borough of Kensington & Chelsea, London, England, and is credited being as the  world’s largest museum of decorative arts and design while keeping a collection of over 4.5 million objects. It was opened with the name of Prince Albert and Queen Victoria and was founded in 1852, and since then it has been grown into a museum of around 12.5 acres and 145 galleries. It has collection of nearly 5000 years of art, from the ancient times to the present day from regions like Europe, North America, Asia and North Africa. It is a non departmental body as sponsored by the Department of Culture, Media and Sport.

• Madame Tussaud Museum: It is a wax museum in London with a number of branches in a number of major cities globally. The museum was founded by wax sculptor Marie Tussaud and later named as “Madame Tussaud’s” Museum.

Other museums apart from said and discussed above are Guards’ Museum, Hermitage Rooms,  Jewel Tower, London Canal Museum, London Fire Brigade Museum, Alexadner Fleming Laboratory Museum, Bramah Tea & Coffee Museum, Britain at War Experience, Clink Prison Museum, Bramah Tea & Coffee Museum,  Clink Prison Museum, Design Museum,  Faraday Museum, Florence Nightingale Museum,  Museum of Garden History, National Army Museum, Petrie Museum of Egyptian Archaeology, Pollock’s Toy Museum, Sherlock Holmes Museum, Wellington Museum.

The 2012 Summer Olympic Games that officially has been termed as Games of the XXX Olympiad are set to be held in London, United Kingdom, from 27 July to 12 August 2012. London with the task of organizing the 2012 Olympic Games is honored as a city for organizing this game thrice. London has organized games earlier in years 1908 and 1948. London was elected as a host city for the games on 6 July 2005 in the 117th IOC Session in Singapore after defeating cities like Moscow, New York, Madrid and Paris after four rounds of voting. This winning of the Bid for London Olympics prompted for a number of exciting development activities in many areas in London where games are to be held.

Mascots of Olympic Games

Wenlock and Mandeville are the official mascots for the 2012 Summer Olympic and Paralympic Games that were revealed out on 19th May 2010.  Wenlock and Mandeville are animations showing up two drops of steel from a steelworks in Bolton. They only have a single that is the Eye of Providence and learning. They were named as Wenlock after the Shropshire town of Much Wenlock that held a forerunner of the current Olympic Games, and Stoke Mandeville, a town in Buckinghamshire where the Paralympic Games were organized for the very first time.

Venues and Infrastructure

The venues for 2012 Olympic and Paralympic Games is a mixture of new places as well as sporting facilities which were been used in the previous Olympic games in the well recognized locations of the London like as Hyde Park and Horse Guards Parade. Organizers has decided that some of the facilities will be used in the games in their preexisting forms whereas the 80,000 seater main stadium will be reduced in size and several other stadiums would be relocated to some other places at UK. The entire sporting extravaganza is divided into three sporting zones within Greater London at places Olympic Zone, the River Zone and the Central Zone.  More there is a Weymouth and Portland National Sailing Academy on the Isle of Portland in Dorset for hosting sailing events, Tring in Hertfordshire will host the start of the 50 km walk. Lord’s Cricket Ground will be the venue for archery. The responsibility of carrying away spectators to Olympic venue would be shared by London Tube.

Below is the list of some famous spots in London other than that we discussed in the first part of our article.

•  Piccadilly Circus: It is a famous road junction and public space of London’s West End in the City of Westminster. The Circus was constructed in 1819 to connect Regent Street with the major shopping street of Piccadilly. Now it is straight connected to theaters on Shaftesbury Avenue as well as the Haymarket, Coventry Street and Glasshouse Street.  It also is a prominent entertainment center at the West End. Being a major traffic intersection Piccadilly Circus has become a busy meeting place and major center of tourist attraction in its own way.

•  Royal Albert Hall: The Royal Albert Hall, famous for the Proms, was constructed to commemorate the death of Prince Albert. It is an arts center located in the Knightsbridge area of the City of Westminster, London and reputation as UK’s most preserved and treasured buildings. Since, its inauguration by Queen Victoria in 1871 it has been stage for artist to showcase their talent from around the globe. Yearly it hosts about around 350 performances inclusive classical concerts, rock and pop, ballet and opera, tennis, award ceremonies, school and community events, charity performances and lavish banquets.

• Royal Courts of Justice: The other name for Royal Courts of Justice is Law Courts and is the building in the London that keeps within its premises Court of Appeal of England and Wales and High Court of Justice of England and Wales. The building is constructed in the Victorian Gothic style and was designed by George Edmund Street, a solicitor turned architect. The court was inaugurated by Queen Victoria in December 1882. It is located by the Strand, in the Cit of Westminster, near the border with the City of London and the London Borough of Camden. Around it is the four Inns of Court and London School of Economics. The nearest tube stations to it are Chancery Lane and Temple.

Royal Courts of Justice

•  Royal Observatory: The Old Royal Observatory in Greenwich, London, marks the point where Greenwich Mean Time began. The Royal Observatory, Greenwich come into operation in 1675 when it was commissioned in 1675 by King Charles II, with the foundation stone being laid on 10 August. It is located on a hill in Greenwich Park in Greenwich, London, overlooking the River Thames.

•  St. James’s Palace: It was constructed by Henry VIII, and had been home to some of England’s finest king and monarchs. It is one of the oldest palaces of London and is located at Pall Mall close to St. James’s Park.

•  St. Paul’s Cathedral: Constructed aftermath of Great Fire of 1666, it is considered as the second largest dome in Europe. It is an Anglican cathedral on Ludgate Hill, the highest point in the City of London, England and is the seat of the Bishop of London. The present building is as old as and dates back to 17th century and is being designed by Sir Christopher Wren.

•  Temple Church: This temple was made by the Knights Templar and is based upon the Holy Sepulchre in Jerusalem. It is a late 12th century church that is situated between Fleet Street and River Thames. Templar made it purposefully as their English headquarters. The church is famous for its effigy tombs and round church.  The entire area around the church is known as Temple including Temple Bar and Temple Church as all have derived their name from the church.

•  Thames Flood Barrier: The Thames Flood Barrier near Woolwich protects the City of London from the rising tide of the Thames. It is the world’s largest movable flood barrier and is constructed downstream of central London. Its northern bank is in Silvertown in the London Borough of Newham and its southern bank is in the New Charlton area of Charlton in the London Borough of Greenwich.

• Tower Bridge: It is a bascule and suspension bridge in London, over the River Thames. Due to its closeness with Tower of London, it has been named as Tower Bridge. It is an iconic symbol of London. The bridge is combined of two towers that are that are tied at the upper level by methods of two horizontal walkways as to survive the horizontal forces exerted by the suspended sections of the bridge on the landward sides of the towers. Tower Bridge sometimes is get confused with the London Bridge that is the next bridge upstream. The nearest tube station connected to it is Tower Hill on the Circle and District Lines.

•  Tower of London: Constructed by William the Conqueror, the Tower of London has the Bloody Tower and Traitor’s Gate. It is also recognized by name of Tower of London. Now is a castle and solaced monument in central London, England on the northern bank of the river Thames. It has been served for many activities like a fortress, a royal palace, a prison, an armoury, a treasury, a zoo, the Royal Mint, a public records office, an observatory, and since 1303, the home of the Crown Jewels of the United Kingdom.

•  Trafalgar Square: This famous square in central London, England has positions like Nelson’s Column, Admiralty Arch, and the world famous National Gallery. Being in the center of London It is a very attractive place for tourist and other activities. The center of Trafalgar square has decorated Nelson’s column that is protected by four lion statues at its base. It is owned by the Queen in Right of the Crown and is looked after by the Greater London Authority. It is placed to be at fourth spot as popular tourist attraction on Earth having more than fifteen million visitors every year.

• Wellington Arch: Wellington Arch was built to celebrate the Duke of Wellington’s victories in the Napoleonic Wars. It is also known by other names like Constitution Arch or Green Park Arch. It is situated to the south of Hyde Park in central London at the north western corner of Green Park. The Arch was constructed on a design by Decimus Burton between 1826-1830

• Westminster Abbey: It is a huge Gothic church in Westminster, London situated to the west direction of the Palace of Westminster.  It is burial site for English, later British and later still monarchs of the Commonwealth Realms for centuries. It was also been stood as to be the cathedral from 1546–1556, and is    a Royal Peculiar.

When there arouses question of describing London with reference to its landmark then one can easily comes across a long list of places with an equal importance from historical as well as contemporary perspective. Below is provided a very brief list of the must-see landmarks of the London.

• Big Ben: This massive 13nd half ton watch is a famous London clock face. It was designed by Charles Barry in 1956 and chimed its first tune at the end of the House of parliament. This clock was designed and developed by Charles Barry in 1856. It took nearly 13 years for it to be completed.  The mechanism of the clock was designed by London’s top barrister of the day, Edmund Beckett Dension. The entire clock is consisted of one big bell and four smaller bells at the side.  The clock had broken down previously in history many times. The most famous occasion it was broken down it was in December 1962 when heavy snow affected the temperature of the machine mechanism and it chimed ten minutes late on New Years Eve.

• Buckingham Palace: Buckingham Palace is the residential place for living of the Her Majesty the Queen of England. It was constructed by the 1st Duke of Buckingham in 1702. Initially it was constructed as a country mansion at the edge of St. James’s park but the exponential expansion of the city provided it a central place. George III purchased it in 1762, and grandeur embellishments by King George IV turned it into a magnificent royal home. The palace has total 661 rooms. Elizabeth II and the Duke of Edinburgh keeps twelve rooms in the north wing as against the 40 acre gardens. The State Apartments that also involves Ballroom, Music Room and Throne Room is too reserved for official business. These State Rooms can be seen during the Buckingham Palace Tour. The tour visits just 19 of the Palace’s 661 rooms.

• Cleopatra’s Needle: The name is here referred to three Ancient Egyptian obelisks as re-erected at popular cities of London, Paris and New York around in nineteenth century.  Despite being obelisks as older they are some how misnamed and has not any direct or indirect connection to Queen Cleopatra VII of Egypt. It was quarry at Aswan around 1457 BC and dates back to the time and period of Pharaoh Tuthmose III.  After the defeat of Napoleon in the 19th-century by British, Viceroy of Egypt Mohammed Ali commemorated the victory with a gift of ancient mason. However, Cleopatra’s Needle’s excessive weight led the journey of the mason to delay by several decades to London.

• Downing Street: Number 10 Downing Street has been the conventional home of British Prime Minister since 1731. Though appearing modest from outside the Downing Street is center of world famous activities and places to wonder and have amazement. The building was constructed by Sir Downing. For more over two hundred years this street is official residences of  the two most senior British cabinet ministers, the First one is First Lord of the Treasury an office kept by the Prime minister of the United Kingdom and the Second Lord of the Treasury an office kept by the Chancellor of the Exchequer. Once there people had liberty to ask questions to their leaders and came in and out of No.10 but this all changed since 1989, when IRA started bombing London Thatcher tightened up the security, and the closest now have a big iron gate at the  corner.

• Eros Statue: The bright lights of Piccadilly Circus and the statue of Eros have earned immeasurable reputation among London landmarks. Though against the common conviction that it resembles the Greek God of love, contrary it shows up the Greek God of love. The statue was erected in 1892 to commemorate Anthony Cooper, the 7th Earl of Shaftesbury, whose tireless work for the poor and mentally ill led to calls for a memorial.

• Houses of Parliament: The Houses of Parliament or the ‘Place of Westminster’ is home to the British Government; it is situated at the similar spot near, where Canute the Great built a royal palace on the site. The building apart from parliamentarian activities were also been used for ceremonies and coronation banquets and the last one occurred in late 1821.

•  Kensington Palace: Kensington Palace were been used by British royalty for centuries as residential place for royalty including Princess Diana. It has been a residence of the British Royal Family since the 17th century. Today it is the official residence of The Duke and Duchess of Gloucester; the Duke and Duchess of Kent; and Prince and Princess Michael of Kent. Kensington Palace is also used on an unofficial basis by Prince Harry, as well as his cousin Zara Phillips. The nearest tubes to Kendsington Palace are Queensway, Bayswater, High Street Kensington and Gloucester Road.

• London Eye: The British Airways London Eye – or ‘Millennium Wheel’ – is the largest ferris wheel in the world. It is huge 135 meter tall Ferris wheel as situated on the banks of the River Thames in Central London, England. It is one of the most popular attractions in the UK and is visited by nearly 3.5 million people annually.

• Mansion House: Mansion House in the heart of the City, and is the official home of the Lord Mayor of London. It is used for many a times for official activities like an annual dinner hosted by the Lord Mayor, at which the Chancellor of the Exchequer occasionally gives speech. It was constructed between 1739 and 1752 in the fashionable Palladian style by the City of London surveyor and architect George Dance the Elder

•  Marble Arch: It was initially a part of Buckingham Palace that later moved to Hyde Park Corner. It is a Carrara-marble monument at the junction of Oxford Street, Park Lane, and Edgware Road opposite to Hyde Park in London, England. With referenced to history it were the members of the royal family and the King’s Tropp, Royal Horse Artillery are only allowed to pass through the arch in ceremonial processions.

•  Monument: The Monument mourns the death and damage caused by the Great Fire of London in 1666. It is a 202ft tall stone Roman Doric column in the City of London, England close to the northern end of London Bridge. It is standing tall at Monument Street and Fish Street Hill, 202 ft (61.57 metres) the place where Great Fire of London started in 1666. The  architecture of the monument consists a  fluted Doric column constructed of Portland stone having gilded urn of fire and was designed by Christopher Wren and Robert Hooke.

•  Nelson’s Column: This seventeen feet taller column was constructed during 1840 and 1843 to memorize the death of Admiral Horatio Nelson at the Battle of Trafalgar in 1805. The 5.5 m (18 ft) statue of Nelson stands over 46 m (151 ft) Foggintor granite column. Monument was designed by architect William Railton in 1838, and was constructed by firm Peto & Grissell. It also has symbolic reference to Adolf Hitler’s plan to invade Britain, Operation Sealion, and in case of successful occurrence and completion of invasion, he had planned to move the Column to Berlin.

•  O2 Arena (Millennium Dome): This is the largest single-roofed building in the world and is tall enough to accommodate Nelson’s Column. This large dome shaped building was constructed to employ and exploit the Millennium Experience a huge exhibition celebrating activity that started with the beginning of new Millennium.  Situated at the Greenwich Peninsula in South East London, England, the exhibition open for public on January 1st 2000 and was organized till 31 December 2000.

While on the tour of London it is expected and seems to be reasonably and up to the expectation that an outsider in the city would never leave any stone unturned to visit city on holidays and to one’s wonder certainly on Sunday. On a tour of London a person can do a good number of activities and loitering around the city like:

•  For Getting Wet: Splash around at Club Aquarium, London’s only club with its own swimming pool. Every Sunday there’s a night of dirty electro; on the first and third Sunday of the month, there’s after-party Insomnia, while on the second and fourth, it’s D-Late, with electro and minimal. Read more

•  Places to listen Classical Music: Kings Place’s main 420-seat auditorium that was started into operation from autumn 2008 is a place for a number of music activities like jazz, folk, leftfield rock for a  and spoken word on the bill.  Kings Place is the permanent spot for the London Sinfonietta and the Orchestra of the Age of Enlightenment.

•   Jazz on the Thames: It is a cruise that let you to have a three-course meal while listening to the relaxing strains of Cole Porter, George Gershwin and Frank Sinatra.

•  Cruise galleries in the East End: At the east end of the London, one can have Vegas Gallery to have Tracey Emin, Matt Collishaw and Gillian Wearing. Or one can move around The Drawing Room to see ‘Shudder’, a show of short animated films.

•  Get Steamy: This is a tranquil Turkish Baths at Ironmonger Row and is open only to women on Sundays. However, men getting away from the boozy Friday can have therapeutic perspiration on Saturdays. It is s Grade –II 1930 listed Turkish bath.

•   Procure organic food for being satisfied: You can have all the best taste of times with Pimlico Road Farmer’s Market and the activities their in the market make you memorizing and nostalgic about to Paris. It is a six year old market. One can have a higher concentration of fresh fruit and vegetables, meat and baked goods there.

•  Match Up Knitting with Sunday lunch: At Waterloo based shop, ‘I Knit London’ one can have real toast to the event as on the last Sundays of every month, it organizes Sunday Knit Roast at the Crown and Two Chairmen and their punters from around the massive places come to take their pick of an array of global beers.

•  Have a bit solace in Holland Park: If you desires to roam around at some lesser known places in London, than Kyoto Gardens in Holland Park is one of the least known outdoor treasures. This is an interesting London place loved equally by history buffs and horticulturalists with same aptitude and likeness.  During the 19th century, Holland House became center of political and literary activity and visited by Disraeli and Lord Byron amongst others, but its larger portion was destroyed by bomb in around WWII.

•   Roam around Camden Town: Lock Tavern and Camden Town are places that are worth visiting as they are to be thronged with crowd on weekends. The place to one’s enjoyment is filled with aesthetic beauty, wood paneling downstairs and open air terrace on the first floor. And for party mover’s big name DJs regularly roam around this place.

When you are on the tour of England and eventually are at London and looking out for places that you should visit on the tour of city, then you come across number of places and spots for your leisure and enjoyment. However among all the places and spots the Royal Parks of London are places that you should always look at as a great opportunity to learn about the traditional British horticulture as well as common and rare flora found in the England. The Royal Parks of London are controlled by the monarchy of England for the recreational activities of the Royal family. And public does not have legal right to use works and depends upon the mercy of Crown to use those parks. The Royal Parks Agency manages the Royal Parks under powers derived from s22 Crown Lands Act 1851.

Though with urbanization of London, these parks were preserved as and made freely accessible to become public parks. There are total eight parks over there in Greater London within jurisdiction of Royal Park and covers around 2,000 hectares of land in London.

• Bushy Park: It is home for freely roaming deer and has a mile long chestnuts avenue. The park also has an artificial river and large selection of sporting facilities.

• The Green Park: It is situated between Buckingham Palace and Piccadilly and is great place to sit and soak up the sun. It is such a nice place with for sunbathing and picnics in the summer months.

• Greenwich Park: It is a world heritage site and contains several historic buildings like Royal Observatory, Old Royal Naval College, National Maritime Museum and the Queen’s House.

• Hyde Park: It is located at the middle of London and houses Serpentine and Rotten Row, a renowned riding track and the first artificially lit road in England. And with the Serpentine Gallery, the Diana Memorial Fountain and open-air events are located here.

• Kensington Gardens: Kensington is in closer to Hyde Park at the end of the Serpentine. The features of this park are the Italian Fountain Gardens and the imposing Albert Memorial. The park too is living place to Kensington Palace with its peaceful Italian Gardens.

• The Regent’s Park: This park include an Open Air Theatre, a stunning rose garden, a boating lake (complete with islands), children’s playgrounds and a selection of cafés and restaurants, and the extensive London Zoo.

• Richmond Park: Spread around in the vast span of nearly 2,000 acres this includes diverse landscape with many walking trails through woods, parkland and riverside paths.

• St James’s Park: This park present’s a very attractive picnic spot on a royal itinerary and it’s lovely to hire a deckchair in summer and listen to the music in the bandstand.