British Library

The Brirish Library is the national library of the United Kingdom. It is a major research library holding over 150 million items from many countries, in many languages and in many formats. The library's collections include around 14 million books and manuscripts and historical items dating back to 2000 BC.

 

Newton

As a legal deposit library, it receives copies of all books produced in the United Kingdom and Ireland.

William Shakespeare

Stamps collection

Magna Carta

The Gutenburg Bible

The Diamond Sutra

Bronze structure of "Sitting on History"

refers to book as the captor of information which we cannot escape

King's Cross St Pancras

We took the tube to King's Cross St Pancras Station to go to the British library.

On the way to the British Library we passed the St Pancras Renaissance Hotel

Earl's Court

Our hotel is about 150m from the station.

Breakfast in the hotel

Taking the tube to the British Library

Dinner at Byron

We had a late dinner before going back to the hotel.

Oxford Street

Our first port of call was Oxford Street, to see the busiest shopping street in Europe. The Christmas lights were already on.

John Lewis - "Never knowingly undersold"

London Heathrow Airport

We landed at the busiest airport in the world at 4.15 pm local time

Terminal 3

 

We took the tube to central London

Our hotel in Earl's Court

City Continental Kensington

Our itinerary in London

Day 1
Arrived in London Heathrow Airport
To the hotel
Oxford Street
Dinner at Byron

Day 2
British Library
Victoria Embankment
Sundial at Tower Hill
All Hallows by the Tower
Tower Hill Memorial
Tower Bridge
Lunch Fish & Chips
The Tower of London
British Museum
China Town
Dinner at Burger King

Day 3
London Eye
Houses of Parliament
Trafalgar Square
National Gallery
St Martin-in-the-Fields
Lunch at the Crypt at St Martin-in-the-Fields
Horse Guards
Monument to the Women of World War II
Cenotaph
No.10, Downing Street
St James's Park
St James's Palace
The Mall
Buckingham Palace
Wellington Arch
Hyde Park Corner
Speakers' Corner
Harrods
Dinner at McDonald

Day 4
Old Bailey
St Mary-le-Bow
Millennium Bridge
St Paul's Cathedral
Temple Bar
Lunch at The Centre Page
Madam Tussauds
Piccadilly Circus
Charing Cross
Dinner at KFC

Day 5
CAMBRIDGE

St Mary the Great

King's College

Corpus Christi College

Emmanuel United Reformed Church

The Parish Church of Little St Mary

Peterhouse

Pembroke College

Queens' College

The Backs
Lunch at Tatties

Trinity College

St John's College

The Church of the Holy Sepulchre  
Dinner at Gourmet Burger Kitchen

Day 6
Legal London
Gray's Inn
Lincoln's Inn
The Royal Courts of Justice
Law Society
Middle Temple
Inner Temple
Westminster Abbey
Windsor
Dinner at the Crypt at St Martin-in-the-Fields

Day 7
Windsor Castle
Lunch at Whittington Stone
Waterlow Park
Highgate Cemetery
Limehouse
Dinner at Gourmet Burger Kitchen

Day 8
Erlesmere Gardens, Ealing
London Dungeon
Lunch at Courtfield
To London Heathrow Airport

London

London is the largest city in Europe and is home to about 8 million people. It covers an area of 1,600 sq km and is more than twice the size of Singapore. The city is rich in historic buildings and treasures from all periods. There are museums, galleries, churches and castles, a vast array of entertainments and shops. Although our itinerary has covered a fair bit of London, there is still so much to see. We shall have to come back!