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 Olympics

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

Lodon Olympics Mascot

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.