London Trip Planning - London Fotos, Impressions and Info

LONDON VACATION - After a short flight to London airport Stansted (STN) from airport Dusseldorf-Weeze (NRN) hitting to the London hotel using the Stansted Express of the London Eastern Railway to Liverpool Street Station and a ride on the tube through the London Underground we settled in our hotel close to Hyde Park and Kensington Gardens in almost Central London. Stansted seems the airport for a cheap flight and cheap tickets to London where many low-cost airlines have their base. The site www.tfl.gov.uk Transport for London provides the best and all the necessary no nonsense information about London transport including a London map for the tube, trams, trains and even a tube bicycle map of London. Other London airports are London Heathrow (LHR), London Gatwick (LGW), London City (LCY) and London Luton (LTN).

London Underground Queensway Central Line station, station refurbishment finished in May 2006

London Underground
on escalators pay attention to stand on the right so people in a hurry can walk on the left

London Tower Bridge at the Tower of London

Entry to the traitors gate of the London Tower where prisoners entered The Tower
London Tower

The London Tower Bridge

London sightseeing tour by open top bus at night
St. Paul's Cathedral
Night shots of St.Paul, the official site of St.Pauls Cathedral

What to do in London
London Trip Planning Info - The London Travel Card purchased online at ticket-on-line dot com TfL (Transport for London) is a relaxing way to spend your time in London. The London Travel Card is valid on tube, buses having the London Buses logo Dockland Light Railway, National Rail, Tramlink and scheduled Thames riverboat services at 1/3 off the normal fare. As most of the common London attraction like Tower of London, London Bridge, London Eye, Westminster, Big Ben, the British Museum, Buckingham Palace, Downing Street, Covent Garden, Piccadilly Circus, Harrods, London Dungeon, Madame Tussauds, Oxford Street, St. Paul's Cathedral (website of St. Pauls Cathedral), Trafalgar Square and Westminster Abbey are within zone 1 a zones 1-2 Travelcard is just fine. Other fine opportunities to discover the city and see the most famous sights and landmarks is a sightseeing tour on an open-top double-dekker bus City Day Tour or a river cruise to see London from the river on board of one the various riverboatss along river Thames between Westminster and the historic martime Greenwich.

The 1999 London Eye along the Thames
Eye of London

London Eye facts:
0.9 Km/h - 135 metres - 1.700 tonnes
air conditioned cabins
London Eye - Full Story

Traveling the City of London with a Travelcard
London Tour by bus

Where to sleep in London
LONDON - Bed and Breakfast and Hotel accommodation, there are plenty of cheap London hotels and bed and breakfasts. One of the better resources is the following site with the possibility of on-line booking. This site also features a city map and a street map of London which shows where the hotel is located, has guest reviews and one can check the availability of hotels in the City of London on certain days.

Celebrate Thanksgiving in London travel to the cool capital of UK in your Thanksgiving vacation.

Modern London taxi Cab

London City transport
the red Double Decker bus

The clock tower at Westminster Bridge houses the famous
bell Big Ben
The inscription of Big Ben's clock

London Changing the Guard at Buckingham Palace

London Harrods the 5 floor store with restaurants, bars and cafes, founder Charles Henry Harrod.

Change of the Queen's Guard
at Buckingham Palace

London Kensington Palace at Hyde Park, birthplace of Queen Victoria and the royal residence where Diana, Princess of Wales lived.

To consume alcohol in a London pub one must be at least 18 years old.

The tube ticket gates

Full scale replica of the Golden Hinde of Sir Francis Drake at St. Mary Overie Dock - Southbank

What to do in London?
London Shopping - On Bond Street one or actually woman can spend a whole day on almost 200 exclusive shopping destinations. A wealth of elegant fashion, accessories and fine jewellery stores. New Bond Street is the fashion shop area with famous brands and designer fashion while the first part of Old Bond Street stands for fine jewellery and watches. Watch for celebrities and the international jet set, former residents of Bond Street were Lady Hamilton, Admiral Nelson and a number of renowned poets and authors. The closest tube stations are Oxford Circus, Green Park and of course Bond Street.

About Olympics 2012 London!

Olympics 2012 takes place from July 27 to August 12 in the east London Olympic Park and at 25 other venues listed here.

1948, Last Games in Great Britain
22.01.2007, Olympic Park in (Stratford) East London. Deputy chairman of the London 2012 Organizing Committee: London's preparations for the 2012 Games are well on track. There’s a lot of construction going on but it’s mainly underground;
22.01.2007, Blue Badge tourist guides get training course on east London’s past, present and future in the context of the Games
24.01.2007, London Olympics organisers promise: the greenest games in history; speculations: cost go up to 8 billion pounds;
28.02.2007, Mayor Ken Livingstone: Londons Olympic Games, Europe's largest public building project, will cost at least 5.1 billion pounds;
14.03.2007, First domestic sponsor and exclusive banking partner, £80 million - British bank Lloyds TSB;
16.03.2007, Announcement in parliament final budget of overall cost $ +18 billion;
17.03.2007, Scotland Yard: 2012 Olympics biggest challenge ever, +9.000 police officers required at the peak of the 2012 Olympics;
04.06.2007, introduction of the new London 2012 brand (cost: £400,000,-) Criticism and comments: this brand sucks, is meaningless, lousy and unmemorable;
22.06.2007, Doping: The IOC plans to test about one out of every two athletes for banned substances at the London 2012 Olympics, an increase of +10 per cent compared to the Beijing 2008 Games;
02.10.2007, Green light final planning permission to let Olympic Delivery Authority begin constructing of the 2012 Olympic Park;


The domain of the London Summer Games london2012.com provides useful information about the Games. Tickets Sale for the Games will go on in about 18 months before the Opening Ceremony by officially appointed agents. Featured sports: Athletics, Gymnastics, Weightlifting, Aquatics, Canoeing, Rowing, Sailing (to be staged at Portland and Weymouth), Badminton, Basketball, Volleyball, Handball, Hockey, Football (to be played at Old Trafford, Villa Park, Hampden Park, St James' Park and Millennium Stadium), Table Tennis, Tennis, Boxing, Judo, Taekwondo, Wrestling, Cycling, Shooting, Triathlon, Modern Pentathlon, Equestrian, Archery and Fencing. Olympic events take place within Olympic Park, other events to be staged in are central London, Horse Guards Parade, Greenwich Park, Wembley Stadium, Arena and Wimbledon.

London Where?

City Day Tour

Eye London

London Tower

Under Attack

South Garden

St.Pauls

Hyde Park Live

City Pier

WikiPedia

2012

London Tour

London Underground

Video Search

Piccadilly Circus

O2 Arena

Westminster

South Bank

Queen Victoria

Buckingham Palace

London Spam

London Shopping

Downing Street

Kensington Palace

London Gold

Design Museum

Wembley
seating plan

Aquatics