"London and its surrounding" a London Travel Page by UFitsME

I got my first impression from the British Isles when flying in 1991 to Manchester (to attend a conference in Springfields) via London. When approaching Heathrow, Windsor was directly below. In 1994, I spent a holiday week, living in Knightsbridge near Hyde Park, beautiful. Besides the many MUSTs (Buckingham Palace, Big Ben, Trafalgar Square, British Museum, Tower, again Windsor, Westminster Abbey, St. Paul's, Picadilly Circus, Madame Tussaud's) I remember one day when going (by foot) through the Docklands to Greenwich with its observatory, museums and Cutty Sark sailing ship. Excursions led to Oxford (by train) and by bus to Leeds Castle, Canterbury, Dover. Another day, visiting botanic Kew Gardens was really worth time. The same year, I had to/could attend as substitute a conference in York. Afterwards I spent - to reduce flight costs - the weekend in London again. Otherwise I had missed the flight. I experienced a strike for the first time, when sitting in the train towards London. The hotel near Picadilly was interesting too. They tried to have not got my (discount) in advance booking, of course offering generously another room, and during the night there were at least 5 wrong fire alarms. Besides, I made excursions of one day each by train to Brighton and Cambridge. An extended business trip to the South Bank in 1996 , that time approaching Heathrow parallely river Thames vis-a-vis Houses of Parliament, allowed me to make a weekend excursion to Salisbury, Stonehenge and Bath. And it was for the first time that I had to escape a railway station because of a bombing alarm.