London’s musical heritage is almost is popular of its own and has many worthy musicians and lyricists being in the city, who carved out their career out of things and attitudes out of the musical tradition in the city. The Beatles and The Rolling Stones to Jimi Hendrix and The Sex Pistols all these are born over here carried there musical journey to the entire world.

• Britannia Row, Islington: It is a recording studio in Fulham, London SW6, and England. The studio was created by Pink Floyd in the street Britannia Row, Islington, London N1, after their 1975 album Wish You Were Here as it was released. After the opening of the studio he shot his next album, Animals and parts of The Wall involving the famous school chorus “Another Brick in the Wall”. Nick Mason later on took the ownership of the studio however sold it to its current owner, Kate Koumi. During mid 1990s the studio was shifted to its present location in Britannia Row.

• Camden: The city is distinguished in a range of musical lyrics and song titles and is synonymous with local band Madness and later on the Britpop movement. Even at present time too it is a home to the British rock scene. The Hawley Arms pub, for example, is a notorious musician’s haunt. And Amy Winehouse and Pete Doherty as well have roots to this place. Camden has also hosted Madonna’s first UK gig.

• King’s Road, Chelsea: It is also known as KR and is a very popular street in Chelsea, at west London, England. It is related to 1960s style and fashion figures like as Mary Quant and Vivienne Westwood. The miniskirt became a vogue from Mary Quant’s boutique and the infamous Chelsea drugstore from the Rolling Stones’ “You Can’t Always Get What You Want” is now a McDonalds..

• Abbey Road, NW8: On the road is situated world’s most famous zebra crossing as immortalized by The Beatles on the cover of their Abbey Road album. The crossing is nearly 50meter down the road from the Abbey Road Studios, the place where beetles has made most of their recordings. Of all the eight photos taken there one is only in focus and aptly used as the album cover.

• 102 Edith Grove, Chelsea: This is the address where rolling stone was living during their initial years of struggle and somehow survived with the help of the Mick Jagger’s student loan money. The address also became an inspiration for the greatest of songs of its time “I see a red door and I want it painted black” as was the opening line.

• The Courthouse Doubletree by Hilton Hotel: Sounding a bit queer but indeed this is the place where many great rock stars faced trail on various charges. John Lennon, Keith Richards and Mick Jagger are some of those great musical stars. Presently courthouse has been developed as a very impressive hotel.

• Denmark Street, Soho: This spot is popular for music publishing if notes for a song have been created and printed down then it most probably occurred only here. Reginald Dwight used to work at Number 20, and in 1968 he wrote “Your Song”. In 1973, an astonishing 2% of all music sold worldwide was his and Reginald’s alter-ego – Elton John – was a global star. Close to Denmark Street is Denmark Place, there is a wall covered in posters and adverts for bands wanting bassists, drummers and frontmen with a rather specific look.

• Curzon Place, Mayfair: Flat 12 of Number 9 Curzon Place was the residence of Harry Nilsson, who composed music titles as well as songs like “Without You” and “Coconut”. In 1974, Mama Cass of Mamas and Papas fame died here. Surprisingly, four years later another famous musician died here on the same bed and the same room. Who was the drummer, Keith Moon, overdosed on pills as designed to suppress his desire to drink alcohol.

• St Anne’s Court, Soho: Here is situated Trident Studios where on a small sheet of paper there around some songs has been recorded there, and it reads even like a list of all time greats. There George Harrison recorded “My Sweet Lord” here, Lou Reed nailed “Perfect Day” and “Walk On The Wild Side”, The Beatles finished “Hey Jude” and Carly Simon made “You’re So Vain”.

• The Park Lane Hilton Hotel: At this spot Patty Boyd married to both George Harrison and Eric Clapton and hence changed the course of music history. She introduced George Harrison to the Maharishi Yogi, and then Beatles had a new outlook on life and music.

• Abbey Road studios: Abbey Road Studios is a recording studio situated at 3 Abbey Road, St John’s Wood, City of Westminster, London, England. It was made on in November 1931 by a predecessor of British music company EMI, its present owner. Other than recoding studio, the premises were used as facility to remaster many of the classical music concerts happened at Kingsway Hall. It is also outstanding for being the venue in the 1960s for innovative recording techniques as employed by The Beatles, Pink Floyd, and others.

Madame Tussauds is a famous wax museum of London that has branches at major cities world over. It was founded by wax sculptor Marie Tussaud and was popular as “Madame Tussaud’s”, but the apostrophe is no longer used and it has now simply become Madame Tussauds. Madame Tussauds is a major center of tourist attraction in London, which displays the waxworks of historical and royal figures, film stars, sports stars and famous murderers. It is situated on the corner of Allsop Place and Marylebone Road as to the north of Central London. The nearest Tube station close to it is Baker Street, that is on the Jubilee, Bakerloo, Metropolitan , Circle and Hammersmith and City Lines. Its green dome is used to house the London Planetarium.

After having a successful tour of the UK, Madame Tussauds made a permanent base for her exhibition in London in the Baker Street Bazaar in 1835. There visitors used to pay    six pence as to meet the biggest names of their time. From there attraction moved to its present location in Marylebone Road in 1884. From here it can be told about how this museum came into existence and its present shape and form.

Marie Tussaud, was born in Strasbourg, France and her mother used to work as a housekeeper for Dr. Philippe Curtius in Bern, Switzerland, who was a physician skilled in wax modelling. Curtius taught Tussaud the art of wax modelling. She made her first wax figure of Voltaire in 1777. At that time she even made wax model of other famous personalities Jean-Jacques Rousseau and Benjamin Franklin. During the French Revolution she modelled many prominent victims. After the doctor’s death she inherited his huge collection of wax models and thereafter spent around 33 years traveling throughout the Europe. In 1795 she married to François Tussaud. In 1802, she went to London but due to Franco-British war, she was not able to return to France, therefore she travelled throughout Great Britain and Ireland showing her collection. Exhibiting her collection from 1831 she took a series of short leases on the “Baker Street Bazaar” and it became her first permanent home in 1836 and there opened a museum.

One of the primary attractions of her museum was the Chamber of Horrors that exhibits victims of the French Revolution and newly created figures of murderers and other criminals.

By 1883 due to lack of space and rising cost of the Baker Street site her grandson (Joseph Randall) shifted the museum to its current location at on Marylebone Road. The new exhibition galleries were started from on 14 July 1884 and were a huge success.  Madame Tussaud’s wax museum presently is a popular tourist attraction in London and has branches at Amsterdam, Bangkok, Berlin, Dubai, Hamburg, Hollywood, Hong Kong, Las Vegas, Moscow, New York City, Shanghai, Vienna and Washington D.C.

The present day wax figures at Tussauds include historical and royal figures, film stars, sports stars and famous murderers. Known as “Madame Tussauds” museums its present owner are Merlin Entertainments, that acquired The Tussauds Group in May 2007.

There are many section of the museum, the most popular one are:

•    A-List Party: This is the first room while entering the museum as it showcases personalities from the United States including wax sculptures of      Robert Pattinson, Morgan Freeman, Leo DiCaprio, Nicole Kidman, Brad Pitt, Angelina Jolie and Tara Palmer Tompkinson.

•    Warhol’s Women: The Warhol’s Women zone has figure of Andy Warhol as well other female celebrities portrayed by her like  Liza Minnelli, and Jerry Hall.

•    Premiere Night (Movie Room): This area is famous for celebrities from Bollywood as well as Hollywood. It is consisted of sculptors of celebrities like Steven Spielberg, Jim Carrey, Audrey Hepburn, Julia Roberts, Jennifer Lopez, Whoopi Goldberg and Marilyn Monroe. It also has many fictional characters like as Shrek and the smallest wax figure ever made, Tinker Bell.

•    Sports Zone: This area undoubtedly is for sport personalities like as there tiger woods can be seen as putt a golf ball with Tiger Woods, stand on boxing scales next to Mohammed Ali and see what ‘weight’ you would qualify for in boxing.

•    A Royal Appointment: In this section there are stationed wax statues of Queen Elizabeth II of the United Kingdom and Prince Philip, Duke of Edinburgh, Charles, Prince of Wales, Camilla, Duchess of Cornwall, Prince William of Wales and Prince Henry of Wales.

•    Culture: In the culture section one can enjoy wax statutes of cultural and scientific icons like William Shakespeare, Albert Einstein, Stephen Hawking, Pablo Picasso and Charles Darwin.

•    Music Megastars: This section contains wax statues of stars including Beyonce, Madonna, Britney Spears, Leona Lewis, Michael Jackson, Kylie Minogue, Amy Winehouse, Tom Jones, Bob Marley, Justin Timberlake and Freddie Mercury.

•    World Leaders: This area is consisted of world leader’s area from political and spiritual segments. The latest addition to this segment is figure of Barack Obama dominating this area. Other leaders that have their wax statues here are Margaret Thatcher, Winston Churchill, Nicolas Sarkozy, Ronald Reagan, Tony Blair, Benazir Bhutto, Martin Luther King, Mustafa Kemal Ataturk and Gandhi.

•    Chamber of Horrors and Scream: The horror section of Madame Tussauds, showcases serial killers and murders. As Guy Fawkes and Dennis Nilsen are placed here.  It also shows the original guillotine blade that killed Marie Antoinette. The Scream experience is a live-action, actor-led scare maze.

•    Marvel Super Heroes 4D: Here are located wax figures of super heroes like incredible Hulk, Iron Man, Nick Fury (Samuel L Jackson) and Spiderman and  wolverine.

In London, that is world’s great metropolises you can purchase anything that is in your list of wishes. However, you need to know about possible places in London where you can purchase product of your choice and opinion. However, one thing is quite popular with perspective of shopping in London that hardly there is left out or remains any opportunity with respect to bargain as in high prices and high exchange rates. There are many popular streets in London with respect to shopping in the city of London.

• Soho and Chinatown: This area is quite famous for its bars and restaurants. It attracts a good number of crowds including especially on and during Friday and Saturday nights. During the noon time Soho is rather popular for coffee bars and cafes. Old Compton Street is Soho’s ‘High Street’ and also London’s most notable gay area. The area close to Leicester Square is London’s Chinatown.

• Carnaby Street: It is a cheerful pedestrianised region at north Soho at back of   Regent Street. The area has witnessed rampant development during a last few years, especially during southern end of Carnaby Street, with addition to a good number of new stores with a passage through to Kingly Court with three floors of one towards the concept shops and studios in the region.

• Marylebone and St. Christopher’s Place: It is the area located at North of Oxford Street. It is a ten minute walk to the High Street from Bond Street station through pedestrian-only St Christopher’s Place. Chiltern Street is a comparatively quiet street there with having a good numbers of very special women outfits Marylebone High Street have many a time has received praise for its character and the better mix up of shops and restaurants.

• Portobello: Arranged around weekends this market is one of the prominent reason why most of the people tour around the Notting Hill. The portion of the market to the north of the flyover and is mostly bric-a-braq, where as clothes and food stall are situated at its middle section. Antiques and collectibles there are situated at the southern end, close to Notting Hill Gate tube station. Area there remains respectively peaceful during entire weeks.

• Islington: This famous antique shops and market is located a few minutes distance from Angel tube station, on the same side of the street going up towards Islington Green. For Chapel market (the local street market) and for the N1 shopping centre, cross over Upper Street on leaving the station, and walk down Liverpool Road. There one can have a good number of restaurants and bars. The Exhibition Hall thus is third noted center there. 

• Fulham Road: Fulham Road goes out towards Fulham from South Kensington, running parallel to the King’s Road to the south. The area called Brompton Cross can be found at number1 on the diagram below. There are plenty of antique dealers and specialist interior furnishing stores which give Fulham Road a rather sedate atmosphere.

• Oxford Street: This is half a mile long shopping street in London and is one of the most famous shopping streets in London. Oxford Street has reputation for big stores like Selfridges and others departmental stores being located there. These departmental stores are located in between sections from Marble Arch to Oxford Circus, having name and companies from a very big multinationals. It is said to be the busiest shopping street in Europe.

• Regent Street: Regent Street divides swanky Mayfair to the West and trendy Soho to the East. The main shopping area in the street lies between Oxford Circus to the north, and Piccadilly Circus to the south that is a quarter to a mile. Regent Street shops also opens with same timings of Oxford Street.

• Bond Street: At Bond Street in Mayfair there exist a good number of elegant and most expensive shops in London. Designer cloths like Gucci and Armani; perfume; art and antiques; and more Royal Warrant holders are available in London. New Bond Street is a few minutes walk from Bond Street Station, connected by pedestrian-only South Molton Street, and Old Bond Street is the short section at the Southern end which joins Piccadilly.

• Piccadilly and Jermyn St: It is a wider street on a very busy main road that carries and leads to the Picccadilly Circus. There is situated The Ritz Hotel and the Fortnum and Mason department store that is at the same location for three hundred years.  The Royal Academy art institute is on the northside of Piccadilly at Burlington House. Parallel to Piccadilly to the south, is rather peaceful Jermyn Street having menswear shops, precisely shirtmakers.

• Camden Town: It is famous for the four markets like Camden Market, Camden Lock Market, Camden Canal Market and Stables Market. These all market sales out vintage clothing, street fashion, antiques and arts and crafts. This market extremely busy at weekends is even nice place for body piercing too.

• Queensway: The area around Bayswater is popular for a good number of hotels and restaurants in the areas. So the Queensway market there, primarily caters to tourists as there in the region there are located a good number of souvenir shops, bureaux de change and fast food restaurants prominently close to the southern end.   On the  top side of Queensway there is located the huge Whiteleys shopping center with many high street names can be found out along with restaurants and a multi-screen cinema.

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.

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.

Europe that is place filled with exotic destination for travelers to visit through is exceptional in terms of touring in following cities that are nice for a healthy traveling of Europe.

1. Brussels (Belgium): The capital of Belgium and administrative center of European Union Brussels is the one of the most well connected cities of European Union with high speed rail connections across the continent and to London.
2. Amsterdam (The Netherlands): The city known for its canals, parks and museums and for being place for the best international schools in Europe.
3. Copenhagen (Denmark):  The city known for its 11 Michelin star restaurants is the best served city in terms of International schools and private medical facilities. For love to bike city is also named as city of cyclists.
4. Bern (Germany): Situated at German speaking part of Switzerland has  six kilometers of shopping arcades and is the best place to locate whatever consumer goods as required by people. The city also has world class medical facilities including the world class University Hospital Insel.
5. Frankfurt (Germany): Known to be as financial capital of Germany the city has some splendid architecture including the opera house, cathedral and a very beautiful opera house and cathedral. It has well maintained hospitals, shops and a thriving economy.
6. Munich (Germany): The city famous for its annual beer festival, thriving economy fuelled by sectors like information technology, biotechnology and publishing sectors is well connected to Europe and world from its international airports.
7. Düsseldorf (Germany): The city situated at the bank of river Rhine has developed immensely during over past few years in infrastructure and international transport connections. With a good number of consumer goods in access the city is considered as fashion and shopping capital of Germany.
8. Geneva (Switzerland): Due to the heavy existence of international agencies and bodies like United Nations, Red Cross and others over 50% of Geneva population has a foreign passport. Therefore city is intensified with private banking, hospital and education facilities in the city of Geneva.
9. Vienna (Austria):  Austria’s political, cultural and economic capital has been recognized as United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization World Heritage site.
10. Zürich (Switzerland): It is the large number of bars and restaurant numbering upto 2,000 and panoramic view of the Alps and Lake Zurich makes it very special for travel.  The city is also well rated for its medical facilities and international banking services.

Manchester situated in England at north of Leicester known in modern history for starting capitalism and industrial revolution and famous for Pennines to the north and east. City with historical traces back to AD 79 but come into notice during 19th century when unplanned urbanization resulted into the city as result of boom in textile manufacturing during the industrial revolution. Presently center of arts, the media, higher education and commerce Manchester polled as second city in UK.   As learning this much about the city below we would discuss about the some panoramic and exciting places to visit in Manchester.

1. Castlefield Urban Heritage Park: This roman fort that is credited for giving birth to the city of Manchester was constructed day back in Castlefield in AD 79. Soon with span of time it become center for all activities in industrial Manchester and become its heart. It became landscape of weather stained brick buildings and rusting cast-iron relics of canals, viaducts, bridges, warehouses and market buildings. It is now developed into Urban Heritage Park.
2. City of Manchester Stadium: The spectacular City of Manchester Stadium is home to the Manchester City Football Club. It is one of the most impressive state of the art conference and events venues in England. The Stadium was constructed Manchester’s bid for the 2000 Summer Olympics and 2002 Commonwealth Games at a cost of £110 million.
3. Godlee Observatory: This old observatory is under ownership of University of Manchester and is named after Francis Godlee. It is situated in a tower on the roof of the University’s Sackville Street building in the City Center of Manchester, England.
4. Imperial War Museum North: The Imperial War Museum North is a war museum at historically impoverished area in London designed by world-renowned architect Daniel Libeskind. It is one of the five branches of the Imperial War Museum and the lone one at southeast England.  It is a museum to tell about the impact of war on the lives of British and Commonwealth citizens since 1914. It is worth visiting for travelers having fascination for military hardware and battle strategy.
5. The Museum of Science and Industry: The Museum of Science and Industry in Manchester (MOSI), is the largest museum in the city devoted to the cause of science, technology and industry. It is a non departmental public body. There are extensive exhibits in the museum on the theme of transport including railway locomotives, rolling stock, aircraft and space vehicles; on theme of power comprising water, electricity, steam and gas engines.  The stream train at the museum is real attraction over there and is run by volunteers.