London is less a city than a collection of villages that swallowed an empire and never stopped expanding.
The Tower and the Abbey hold a thousand years of crowns and beheadings while glass towers crowd the old financial square mile. Every neighbourhood is a different country-curry houses, Caribbean carnivals, Polish delis-stitched together by a red-bus, black-cab grid.
It's expensive, vast and weather-beaten, but its great museums are free and its energy is endless.
Eat a curry on Brick Lane, a Sunday roast in a pub, and submit to the ritual of afternoon tea.
Round trip from Prague, any dates in October 2026.