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The fourth walks around London takes you even further off the beaten track, into the East End of London, an area which is still very run-down in parts and not so immediately enchanting to the visitor. Take the trouble to study it, however, and you’ll get a gander of London’s rich cultural diversity as well as seeing how pockets of renewal continue to rub shoulders with wretched dereliction.

Trafalgar Square is to the east and Buckingham Palace to the west. If you want to watch the Changing of the Guard, it takes place daily at 11.30 am from April to August and on alternate days from August to April. The best place to position yourself is by the gates of Buck House, but the crowds are awesome. Cross back into beautiful St James’s Park and follow the lake to its east end. Turn right onto Horse Guards Rd which takes you past the Cabinet War Rooms, offering an extraordinary insight into the dark days of WWII.
Continue south along Horse Guards Rd, then turn left on Great George St, which leads to Westminster Abbey, the Houses of Parliament and Westminster Bridge. Westminster Abbey is so rich in history you need half a day to do it fairness.
London is a huge and often overpowering urbancenter, but the central area is agreement enough to make walking an exceptional way of seeing the coupd’oeil.
The four tours of London find out here are designed to authorise you to study widely different domain of London and get the succession not just of the tourist highlights but also of the more workaday modem urbancenter.
The walks around London takes you routine the must see vision from St Paul’s Cathedral to Trafalgar Square; if you’re pressed for interval this is one you’ll probably want to go for. The second collect on the Strand and Fleet St, two notorious thoroughfares which tiein Westminster with the City and were the haunt of such notorious London luminaries as Samuel Pepys, Dr Johnson and Charles Dickens. This walk also gives you the chance to take in some Christopher Wren masterpieces other than St Paul’s.
The third walk lets you uncover the south bank of the Thames, one of the most happening domain of London where revolution and new-fangledisation are taking place at a staggering pace. Here you can see some fine new-fangled construction like Terence Conran’s Design Museum as well as exploring some of the murkier bits of Southwark aroutine the old Ctiein Prison.

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