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    Big Ben: see Houses of Parliament

    Borough Market: Southwark/Bankside


    Saturday 8am-5pm (*8am-10am, crowded after 11am)
    U London Bridge/Borough
    …London Bridge Station—on Borough High Street (turn right/towards river for main
    market)

    -Summary: One of the largest food markets in the world, sells a “mammoth variety of delectables
    from across the globe.” In the market of small shops, you’ll find fish a chips galore and much
    more. Two Keys—ask for/try samples; bring cash.
    “Savvy London foodies have long known you can get a virtual free lunch on Saturday
    simply by enjoying the samples on display.”

    -Jubilee Market (bordered by Cathedral Street)


    --Rabot Estate
    -bisected by Middle Row
    --Continue and turn right on Stoney Street for Konditor & Cook (organic bakery)
    --Continue and turn left on Stoney Street for Flour Power City Bakery (artisan
    bakers)
    -bordered by Bedale Street
    --turn right onto Borough High Street for De Gustibus (artisan bakers)
    -Interesting Vendors:
    -Veggie Table (edge of Green Market); Pims (coffee); Monmouth Coffee (2 Park St.
    near Stoney Street); The Natural Smoothie Company; Cinnamon Tree Bakery (brownies);
    Kappacasein (raclette); Neal’s Yard (cheese); Furness Fish & Game (curry); Turnips
    (juice bar)

    British Museum: Bloomsbury


    Great Russell St.
    Open 10am to 5:30pm
    U Russell Square or Tottenham Court Road or Holborn

    -Sainsbury African Galleries


    -Great Court
    Open 9am to 6pm
    -Highlights:
    --Greek and Roman Rooms—nos. 11-23; 69-73; 77-85
    --Room 4—Rosetta Stone
    --Room 18—Elgin Marbles
    --Rooms 62 to 63—Egyptian mummies

    -Nearby: The British Library, 96 Euston Road


    Buckingham Palace: Westminster/St. James
    -St. James Park
    …If “Royal Standard” is flying, Queen is home.

    Churchill Museum and Cabinet War Rooms: Westminster


    Clive Steps, at end of King Charles Street (off Whitehall, near Big Ben)
    ₤15/12, daily 9:30am to 6pm
    U Westminster or St. James

    -Cabinet War Rooms: Bombproof bunker suite of rooms, as abandoned by Churchill and British
    government at the end of WWII. Includes Map Room, Churchill’s bedroom/office, Sir Winston’s
    private detective rooms and more—like the tiny “Transatlantic Telephone Room where Churchill
    used the “scrambler phone” to confer with Roosevelt.

    -Churchill Museum: Explores life of Churchill.

    Fortnum&Mason: Soho
    181 Piccadilly
    U Piccadilly Circus

    -London’s premier department store, since 1707, offers a comprehensive food market, stationary,
    clothing, gift items, and tea.

    Harrods: Knightsbridge
    87-135 Brompton Rd.
    West down Knightsbridge Rd, continuing onto Brompton Road (left-hand side)
    Monday to Saturday 10am to 8pm; Sunday 11:30am to 6pm
    -Food Halls

    Horse Guard: Westminster/Central London


    Whitehall—West side, north of Downing Street

    -Horse Guard building is the headquarters of the British Army—changing of the guard every
    hour, from 10am Sunday and 11am M-Sat.
    -Inspection at 4pm with a flair-filled dismount at 5pm.

    Houses of Parliament: Westminster/Central London


    Near Westminster Bridge

    -Big Ben, 13-ton bell contained in Clock Tower, completed in 1858

    Hyde Park:
    U Hyde Park Corner (NE) or Marble Arch
    Sunday mornings (approx. 9am)
    -The former deer-hunting ground of Henry VII, contains Kensington Gardens (U Kensington
    High Street or Queensway), featuring the famous statue of Peter Pan and the “Serpentine” Lake.

    -Speaker’s Corner
    --Accessible by walking North from Intercontinental on Park Lane
    …from Lancaster Gate, turn left onto Bayswater Rd. Walk through Victoria Gate
    and continue left down Hyde Park.
    --nearby shopping on Oxford Street (East)

    ongoing
    -Football Festival, UEFA Champions

    National Gallery: Trafalgar Square


    Saturday, Sunday, and Monday 10am to 6pm
    U Charring Cross

    -*Computer: print customized tour—located in “Micro Gallery


    -Note the floor—Boris Anrep mosaic on the stairs
    -Sainsbury Wing: 13th-15th century works
    --Guided Tours—free, 1 hour (11:30am to 2:30pm)
    -Key Works:
    1) Van Eyck: The Arolfini Portrait
    2) Holbein The Ambassadors
    3) Botticelli: Venus and Mars
    4) da Vinci: The Virgin and Child*
    5) Caravaggio: The Supper at Emmaus*
    6) Constable: The Hay Wain
    7) Turner: The Fighting Temeraire
    8) Seurat: Bathers at Asnieres
    9) El Greco: Agony in the Garden

    National Portrait Gallery: Trafalgar Square


    Saturday, Sun. and Monday 10am to 6pm
    Walk down Strand to Trafalgar Square and turn right along square.
    St. Martin’s Place

    --Tudor Gallery
    --Balcony Gallery—20th century figures
    --Other Notable Portraits:
    …Samuel Johnson; Sir Walter Raleigh; full-length Elizabeth I; Holbein cartoon of Henry
    VIII; Bronte sisters
    --Key Vista: Portrait Restaurant = panoramic view of Nelson’s Column and backdrop along
    Whitehall to Houses of Parliament
    Shakespeare’s Globe Theater: Southwark/Bankside
    East of Tate Modern, on the River between Millennium Bridge and Southwark Bridge
    21 New Globe Walk…9am to 12pm and 12:30-5pm

    -Recreation, built on original site.

    St. Martin-in-the-Fields: Trafalgar Square


    Monday to Friday, 9am to 6pm
    U Charring Cross

    -Features free lunchtime concert at 1pm on Monday


    … piano and violin duo (Elizaveta Malyakina & Maya Soltan)—late Romantic/20th c.
    program

    St. Paul’s Cathedral: The City


    Mon- Sat. 8:30am to 4:30pm; Galleries open at 9:30am
    ₤13/12 or 30 for a “family” ticket; option for ₤4 audiotour
    U St. Paul’s or Mansion House or Cannon St. or Blackfriars

    -Summary: Located in the “City of London” and located on the northern bank of the Thames, a
    Christopher Wren masterpiece (1675 to 1710) that is the 4th cathedral on the site, the first dating
    to 604 CE.

    -Key Items to See:


    --Dome—climb to the Whispering Gallery (257 steps); Stone Gallery (378 steps, open-
    air); Inner Golden Gallery (530 steps, open-air view of the city)
    --Organ
    --crypt

    -Nearby: London Wall—

    Tate Modern: Southwark/Bankside


    53 Bankside, the South Bank—access by Blackfriar’s Bridge or Millennium Bridge, from
    St. Paul’s
    Saturday 10am to 10pm; Sunday 10am to 6pm
    U Southwark: left onto Blackfriars Rd. Right onto Southwark St. Left onto Sumner. Left
    onto Holland St.

    -Organization of works is thematic, not chronological.


    -Level 3:
    --Room 7: Rothko and Monet
    -Level 5: Energy and Process
    -Key Vistas—
    1) Restaurant, Level 7
    2) Espresso Bar, Level 4*
    Tower of London: East End
    U Tower Hill

    Westminster Abbey: Westminster


    Saturday and Monday, 9:30am to 2:45pm and 9:30-3:45pm, respectively
    ₤15 (₤12 students) or 32 family ticket, with free audio tour
    KEY—arrive early to avoid crowds
    U Westminster or St. James’s Park

    -Summary: Famous early-English Gothic abbey (based on renovations by Henry III with
    influence by other architects—Wren included), founded by Edward the Confessor as a
    Benedictine abbey in 1065. Traditional coronation site for monarchs, dating to 11th century.

    -North Door: look for painted-glass rose window


    …Coronation Chair
    …Chapel of Henry VII
    --tombs of Elizabeth I and Mary, Queen of Scots
    -Poets’ Corner—famous tombs (look for the stature of the Bard, with one arm resting on a stack
    of books)
    …Famous tombs: Chaucer, Samuel Johnson, Tennyson, Browning, Dickens, H.W.
    Longfellow; also, monuments to other authors.
    -College Garden: off the Cloisters, the oldest garden in England (900+ years of cultivation) }
    only Tuesday – Thursday
    -Abbey Treasure Museum: features oddities in the crypt (i.e. effigies used during “lying-in-state”
    ceremonies).

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