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About London
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.
Get to London
Round trip from Prague, any dates in November 2026.
Buses from London
Day trips from London
- Day trip
Windsor
~1 h
The world's oldest inhabited castle and the weekend home of British monarchs for 900 years: St George's chapel, the state apartments and the changing of the guard, with Eton just across the bridge.
- Day trip
Oxford
~1 h
€5 one wayThe oldest university in the English-speaking world: honey-stone colleges, the Bodleian library and Christ Church's dining hall. See the dreaming spires from the Sheldonian's cupola or a punt on the Cherwell.
- Day trip
Seven Sisters
~2 hRolling chalk cliffs rising and falling along the Sussex coast — the white England of the postcards (it's these, not Dover, on most of them). Walk the undulating clifftop towards the red-striped Beachy Head lighthouse.
About United Kingdom
Four countries, one island
London's density, Welsh and Scottish mountains, moorland footpaths and two thousand years of layered building — all a few train hours apart.
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