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London
This grand
city of the world is the tourist mecca of the UK and as
cosmopolitan as it gets. Split by the Thames- the best way of
getting around is still the world famous
Underground.
Country : United
Kingdom
Area : 130,423 sq
km
Population :
50.089.000
Language :
English
Major religion :
Christianity
GNI per capita :
$28350
Internet domain :
.uk
Currency :
Pound
Phonecode : # 44
# 20
Hotels : The Ritz,
St.James's ; The Savoy, Covent Gardens ; Claridges ; The Stafford ;
Soho Hotel ; Mandarin Oriental Hyde Park Hotel ; One Aldwych ; The
Berkeley Hotel, Knightsbridge ; Millenium Britannia, Mayfair ;
Brown's Hotel , Albermarle Street ; Sanderson Hotel, Soho ; Chester
Grosvenor ; The Hoxton Hotel, Shoreditch ; Rough Luxe Hotel, Kings
Cross ; St Pancrass Renaissance Hotel, London ; Firmdale Group of
Hotels including the Haymarket Hotel, Suffolk Place/The Soho/
Coevent Garden Hotel/Charlotte Street Hotel/Knightsbridge
Hotel/Number 16 ; Metropolitan London, Old Park Lane ; The Goring ;
The Connaught ; The Capital Hotel ; Claridges ; Four Seasons Hotel
London ; The Stafford ; The Langham ; The Athenaeum, on Picadilly ;
Hilton Tower Bridge ; The Lanesborough, a St Regis Hotel ; The
Dorchester ; Melia White House ; Hazlitt's Sloane Square Hotel ;
Harlingford Hotel, Bloomsbury ; Darlington Hyde Park Hotel, Sussex
Gardens ; Dean Street Townhouse, Soho ; Sofitel Heathrow
Restaurants : The Krug
Room Dorchester Hotel ; Alounak, Bayswater ; The Belvedere,
Holland Park ; New Piccadilly, Soho ; Maeson Touareg, Soho ; The
River Cafe ; Captain Kidd Pub, St Catherines Dock ; One on One
, Knightsbridge ; La Poule au Pot, Knightsbridge ; Beach Blanket
Babylon, Notting Hill ; The Ivy ; Maze, Grosvenor Square ; The
Ledbury, Notting Hill ; Nobu Berkeley ; Bibendum, Michelin
Building ; Nobu at the Metropolitan, Mayfair ; Below Zero, Mayfair
; The Square, Mayfair ; Sketch Gallery ; The Anchor &
Hope, Waterloo ; Nahm (Thai) London ; Tapas Brindisa, Borough
; Fifteen Trattoria, Shoreditch ; Chutney Mary, Chelsea
; Gordon Ramsay, Claridges,Chelsea ; Eight Over Eight, Chelsea ;
Brinkley's, Little Chelsea ; Hakkasan ; Bibendum , Fulham Road ;
Pied a Terre ; The Wolseley on Piccadilly ; The Grill, Brown's
Hotel, Albermarle Street ; Spoon (Sanderson Hotel) ; The
Square (2 Michelin Stars) ; Four Seasons, Bayswater ; The
Wapping Project, Canary Wharf ; Zizzi Restaurants (Chain) ; Thames
Foyer, Savoy ; St John Bar & Restaurant, Smithfield ; St John
Bread & Wine, Commercial Street, London; Eco, Clapham High
Street ; Canteen, Spitalfields ; Rivington Bar Grill, Hoxton
; Barrafina (Tapas Bar) ; Fishworks, Marylebone ; Mimmo d
Ischia (Italian) ; Tamarind (Indian) ; High Street Brasserie,
Chiswick High Road ; Brick Lane's BYO curry houses ; Upper Street
Islington, Nth. London ; Fire and Stone, Covent Garden ; Pacific
Otiental, Threadneedle Street ; La Trouvaile, Newburgh Street ;
Brasserie Roux, Heathrow ; The Capital, @the Capital Hotel)
;
Bars : Home, Match EC1,
Alphabet, Momo, Met Bar, Milk & Honey, Absolute Ice Bar (next
to Below Zero Lounge & Restaurant) ; 150 Bar, Mayfair Hotel ;
Long Bar/Purple Bar (Sanderson Hotel) ; Loungelover, Whitby Street
; Ye Olde Cheshire Cheese, Fleet Street ; Shoreditch/Hoxton ;
Boombox, Hoxton Bar & Kitchen ; Gordon's Wine Bar, Embankment ;
O'Neill's, Great Marlborough Street ; The Clachan, Kingly Street ;
White Horse, Newburgh Street
Attractions : London Eye
; Buckingham Palace ; Big Ben ; Tower of London ; Westminster Abbey
; Madame Tussaude ; Hyde Park ; Royal Albert Hall ; British Museum
; National Gallery ; Tate Modern (Salvator Dali exhibition) ;
Design Museum ; Wallace Collection ; East End-once to be avoided,
now chic. ; Carnaby Street
Tips/Shopping :
Sales start immediately after Christmas-earlier than the rest
of Europe. Shopping at Andrew Martin, Harvey Nichols, Harrods,
Liberty, Peter Jones, Selfridges, Saville Row, Topshop (Oxford
Street), Jermyn Street; Fortnum & Mason, Piccadilly ; Carnaby
Street ; Neal Street, Covent Garden ; Crockett & Jones shoes ;
Paul Smith (seconds) outlet, Mayfair, Avery Row ; Lillywhites for
sporting goods, Piccadilly Circus ; Taylor of Old Bond Street (the
world of shaving) ; Portobello Road markets ; East End ; Camden
markets ; Dover Street Markets(5 floors of designer fashions) ;
Hatchard's book store ; Austique, Kings Road, Chelsea ; Rockit,
Brick Lane ; 10 Gales, Shoreditch (vintage) ; Hurweundeki (vintage
furniture), Shoreditch ; Arch 389, Shoreditch ; Shopping
village(factory outlet) in Bicester Village-one hour from
London.
Airports: Heathrow(LHR)-
22 km west of central London, Gatwick(LGW)- 45 km south of central
London
Must play 18 @ :
Sunningdale G.C.-Old Course-(Sunningdale) Wentworth G.C.-West
Course-(Virginia Water)
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