Shopping:
- most of the best shops are in West End
- Oxford street – the best known
- Regent Street – galleries, antiques[1] and jewellery shops
- Piccadilly – clothes shops
- Soho – a lot of restaurants, very dubious[2] night life
Parks:
- St. James’s Park - the oldest one, the home of many water birds
- The Hyde Park - the most famous
- there is a Serpentine lake (boating and swimming)
- Marble Arch was the executing place from the 12th to the 18th century
- at Speaker’s Corner everybody can say what they want without punishment[3]
- Kensington Gardens - Albert memorial – commemorates Victoria’s husband
- Kensington Palace – home of the Royal family
- Albert Hall is the place where a lot of concerts take place
- Regent’s Park - London’s most elegant park – gardens, lakes and zoo.
Other Places:
- British Library - more than 11 million volumes[4] of printed books
- is a part of British Museum
- the Museum includes outstanding things from Egypt, Asia, China, Greece, Rome…
- London Dungeon - situated in the City, first medieval[5] horror museum
- Madame Tussaud - contains wax portraits of a famous people
- Wembley - football stadium
- Wimbledon - the world famous tennis cup takes place there
- Greenwich - there is a pedestrian tunnel under the Themes
- on the other shore[6] there is Cutty Sark – an old cargo ship
- there is also Old Royal Observatory and Greenwich Prime Meridian ( 0 )
- Thames Flood Barrier
- it is at the estuary[7] of the Themes against floods[8]
[1] ) starožitnictví
[2] ) problematický, pochybný
[3] ) trest
[4] ) svazek
[5] ) středověký
[6] ) břeh
[7] ) ústí
[8] ) záplavy
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