COVENT GARDEN
Covent Garden, in the heart of the most chic London, was born in the 17th century, being a cultivation area, which belonged to the monks of Westminter Abbey. Throughout the centuries it was modified, passing through a public square and a flower and vegetable market. Currently, it is full of shops selling handicrafts, cafes, and […]
LONDON: NOT WITHOUT A VISIT TO THE WEST END
The West End is London in its purest form. Oxford Street, Covent Garden or Piccadilly Circus. The West End has everything you need to get impregnated of London’s culture: theatres, shops, restaurants…, this is why there is no London without visiting the West End. Theatres are the main characters in this area known as Theatreland. In the West End […]
CHASING JACK THE RIPPER
Whitechapel (East London), 1888, a series of murders terrifies the whole community of London. The victims were at least five women who suffered terrible cuts in different parts of their bodies. These terrible actions went unpunished since the police did not get to find the identity of the murderer, who was given the nickname of […]
WINTER WONDERLAND
Winter Wonderland is a great place to celebrate Christmas one of the most beautiful seasons of the year: lightings, Christmas markets… In London you can enjoy a place that gathers all the magic of the season, Winter Wonderland, a place where you will feel you are living in your own fairy tale. This magic place […]
AFTERNOON TEA
The afternoon tea is one of the most representative traditions in the United Kingdom. Cold is already here and you cannot visit London without tasting a delicious tea to warm up before getting on London City Tour buses. Despite in this country people drink it at any time, pardon the cliché, at the beginning this ritual spread […]
PUMPKINS, WITCHES AND GHOSTS IN LONDON
During these dates in which streets, houses and shop windows are decorated with pumpkins, candles and skulls it is impossible to not dedicate the post of this month to Halloween, one of the most popular and awaited celebrations particularly in Anglo-Saxon regions. The origin of this tradition has pagan roots. In those ages it was […]