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Okay, not literally walking all throughout. Just want to share some photos I took when I visited London a couple of months back. If UK visa application wasn't such a hassle (Preparing the documents is the most hassle of all), I'd probably consider visiting London often. It's such a nice place to visit, but probably not to live in because the cost of living there is very high. It has the world's 7th largest economy by nominal GDP and 8th largest in terms of purchasing power.
Here are some interesting facts and figures about London:
"GSK House" is the current world headquarters of GlaxoSmithKline in Brentford, London. GSK is a British multinational pharmaceutical, biologics, vaccines and consumer healthcare. It is the world's fourth-largest pharmaceutical company measured by 2009 prescription drug sales
Average cost of a sandwich in London = £7 / ~Php 455
Average cost of a bottle of mineral water in London = £2 / ~Php 130
Average cost of a bowl of mixed fruits in London = £4 / ~Php 260
Average cost of a hot meal (Rice + Viand) in London = £12 / ~Php 780.00
A typical British lunch consists of a sandwich, chips, a piece of fruit and a drink.
Buckingham Palace (Originally known as Buckingham House) is the official residence and workplace of the British monarch. Built in 1705 for the Duke of Buckingham.
The official souvenir shop of Westminster Abbey. Uhm, if you want some stuff from here, you can also buy them online at https://shop.westminster-abbey.org/index.php
You don't simply become a taxi driver in UK. You must pass "The Knowledge" test to become one. There are 2 types of badges, a yellow one for suburban areas and a green one for all of London. Of couse, the green one is considered far more difficult as you need to intimately know the geography of London streets.
The Knowledge is the world's most demanding training course for taxi cab drivers. Applicants will need at least 12 appearances and an average of 34 months to pass the examination. Here in the Philippines, sad to say that you only need to go to Quiapo and have your driving license made for a fee. Won't even take half your day and no more than 2,000 pesos (~£30). You don't even need to know how to drive. This is the case for most of the Jeepney drivers and tricycle drivers here in the Philippines so this explains the crazy driving they always exhibit. We need to improve the security feature of our license.
London Heathrow airport is the 3rd most busiest airport in the world in terms of total passenger traffic. It started in 1929 as a small airfield but by 1944, they developed it to suit long-distance military aircraft bound for the far east. By the time it was completed, World War II already ended then, they decided to convert it to a civil airport initially known as London airport. London Heathrow airport is the host airport of London 2012.
Red double-decker buses in London have become a national symbol of England. Majority of buses in London are double-deckers and since 2007, they already have their first hybrid double-decker bus and in 2008, more and more hybrid double-deckers came into service.
Coloquially known as the Tube, it is the most used form of public transport in London. The Underground has 270 stations and 402 kilometers of track and 45% of which is literally underground. The London Underground is the 2nd most largest metro system in the world in terms of route miles, after the Shanghai Metro. In 2007 alone, it recorded more than 1 billion passenger journeys. It is the third busiest metro system next to Moscow and Paris.
Production of Beechdean Farmhouse Dairy Ice Cream is carried out on the family’s 600-acre dairy farm in the Chiltern Hills and at the state of the art new factory on a dairy farm in Cheshire, a ceremonial county in North West of England. I ate this during the intermission of Wicked: The Musical in Apollo Victoria Theatre. (£3.50 = ~Php 230)
The Red telephone box, more commonly known to us as the "phone booth" is a familiar sight in the streets of United Kingdom among others like Malta, Gibraltar and Bermuda. Designed by Sir Giles Gilbert Scott as a public telephone kiosk. If you think all those red phone booths are similar, check this site out to know the different versions of it: http://www.the-telephone-box.co.uk/
I know a lot of people will kill me for sleeping through almost the ENTIRE Wicked: The Musical show. This show is based on the 1995 Gregory Maguire novel Wicked: The Life and Times of the Wicked Witch of the West, a parallel novel of the 1939 film The Wizard of Oz. We booked our tickets via Ticketmaster. (Paid around £130 for 2 pax, ~Php 8,500)
We watched the play in Apollo Victoria theatre in London.
Harrods is a famous upmarket department store located in Brompton Road in Knightsbridge, UK. Other than the department store, this enterprise has Harrods Bank, Harrods Estates, Harrods Aviation and Air Harrods. This store occupies 5-acres of land and has over one million square feet of selling space in over 330 departments. This is the biggest department store in Europe. Some of the world famous departments inside Harrods are the seasonal Christmas department and the food hall. Henry Edward Harrod established his business in 1824 at age 25!
Mohamed Al-Fayed, was the former owner of Harrods Department Store. His son, Dodi Fayed is more famously known as Princess Diana's boyfriend. Currently, it is owned by Qatar Investment Authority. This is Qatar's sovereign wealth fund, specializing in domestic and foreign investments. This was founded in 2005 to manage the oil and natural gas surpluses by the Government of Qatar.
Founded in AD 604, St Paul's Cathedral is a church of England cathedral and seat of the Bishop of London. At 365 feet, it was the tallest building in London from 1710 to 1962. The dome is also among the highest in the world. St Pauls Cathedral is also the second largest building in UK after Liverpool Cathedral.
Wesminster Abbey was begun by Henry III in 1245. It is one of the most important Gothic buildings in the country. It houses treasures of world renowned paintings, stained glass, textiles, pavements and other artifacts. This is also where most of the significant people in the nation's history were buried or commemorated like Charles Dickens, Sir Isaac Newton and Charles Darwin.
The royal collection inside Buckingham palace includes paintings by Rembrandt, Rubens, Vermeer, Poussin. Sculptures by Canova and Chantrey and some of the finest English and French furnitures in the world.
*Tate Modern gallery is the world’s most popular modern art gallery.
*There are more than 900 bookshops in London – twice as many as New York.
*London has 22 national museums and more than 200 other museums
*London has four UNESCO world heritage sites: Tower of London, Maritime Greenwich, Westminster Palace, Kew’s Royal Botanic Gardens.
What's your favorite in London?
Below are other articles that we have on Europe:
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4 comments:
London is somewhat one of the most well-established city in the world for me. The amazing infrastructures as well as the styles of buildings would really amaze the tourists coming there.
London is somewhat one of the most well-established city in the world for me. The amazing infrastructures as well as the styles of buildings would really amaze the tourists coming there.
Nice Photos. Ganda talaga ng mga landmarks sa London. Sana makapunta rin ako diyan!
I like black cabs which provides services at london airport. they very comfortable.
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