London neighborhood: Outside Central London
Anything beyond central London or the East End to Greenwich
Anything beyond central London or the East End to Greenwich
The royal palace so nice Henry VIII honeymooned here twice—and then three times, and four, and five...
The world's oldest scientific zoo (as opposed to some royal menagerie) is home to more than 750 species
A vast park in North London, with lovely views, wooded rambles, swimming ponds, cozy pubs, and Old Master art in a genteel manor house
A 17th century manor house in Hampstead Heath with a fabulous free art collection
A 395-acre park with an Open Air Theatre, zoo, sports pitches, and flower gardens
The Hampstead home where Freud spent his final year retains the actual couch Freud used during psychoanalysis sessions
The house in Hampstead where John Keats wrote his most famous poems and met his love, Fanny Brawne
Perhaps the nicest B&B in London—though not the most central (in Hammersmith and Fulham)
Dorm rooms in Clerkenwell with the London School of Economics
A 16th century pub on Hampstead Heath that inspired Keats, Dickens, and Stoker
In that paragon of travel documentaries, National Lampoon's European Vacation, there is a scene in which Ellen Griswold (Beverly D'Angelo) forgets to lock the door on the shared bathroom in their London hotel. A man comes in to brush his teeth and is pleasantly surprised when Ellen—washcloth over face and believing the man to be her hubby, Clark—calls to him from the bathtub to join her. Shock and hilarity ensue. The accidental intruder was played by none of ther than Robbie Coltrane, 16 years before he embodied Hagrid in the Harry Potter films.