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− You see, Olya, the aircraft itself sits down; it is not the Earth that rises and takes it into its arms.
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− Oops! Good morning, good morning, good morning to you! Good morning, good morning, I am glad to see you!
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− Olya learned this poem in English and stole a coat from Queen Elizabeth II.
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And this means that "Heads and Tails. Metropolises!” is in London!
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− Sir Anton, I have a pound sterling for you.
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− Yes, yes, Lady Olga!
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− Here you are! Queen Olga!
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− So let’s figure it out! Heads!
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− It is me again! It is me again! Good luck, Anton! Here you are! So, royal life, where are you?
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London became a metropolis a hundred years ago. When it was the capital of almost a quarter of the world.
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When through the city held a line between west and east.
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London is kings and queens, knights and legends, castles and heroic chases.
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Fans of "Game of thrones", we have found the perfect city for you!
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All VIPs go to the VIP parking lot!
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But they go there not on foot but in a personalized capsule!
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Wow! Stop. And where is the driver? Well, this is a drone! It is computer controlled! Technology!
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London! Well, what can you say?
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The daily cost of parking here is 36 and half pounds. Almost 1265 hryvnia!
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Therefore, they made such a convenient VIP transfer (not a bus through the entire airport) for customers!
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Just a couple of minutes and I am on the spot!
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Thank you, Mister Drone!
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With a slight movement of the hand of unprofitable currency transactions, these 100 dollars turn
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into 75 pounds. For London, it is nothing at all.
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Do you know what you can afford for 75 pounds? You can eat three times in a small café
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or spend 2 nights in a two-star hotel. Or you can take a taxi from the airport to the city centre once.
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Well, or 2 guided tours. In general, with this money, you will not allow yourself much.
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For comparison, at least travel by subway — in London it is one of the most expensive in the world! Prices for the trip start from 70 hryvnia!
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If you want to save money, take the Oyster card! With its help, all movements around the city are much cheaper.
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Oyster means “a large flat shellfish”. And as the oyster saves its pearl, so this card saves my money.
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Thanks to the Oyster map, the fare from the airport to the city centre will cost me 5 pounds 10 pence
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(instead of 6). However, there is another trick. You can wait until 9:30 a.m.
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and then the fare will cost 3 pounds 10 pence.
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In general, the cost depends on the time at which you plan to go.
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The most expensive subway ticket is at peak hours, that is, from 6:30 till 9:30 a.m. and from 4 till 7 p.m.
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So here they thought up to unload the subway cars at the expense of those people who want to save money.
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I have to wait until 9:30 a.m.
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With a gold card, you can choose anything you want. You can choose Ferrari or Bugatti;
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however, with respect to London, I will be rolled by a real English aristocrat today.
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If the status is multiplied by luxury, you get Bentley Bentayga, which costs 250 thousand pounds!
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Everyone is used to the fact that the Bentley is basically a sedan. Nevertheless, this is not a sedan.
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This is a crossover. And it is even bigger, cooler, and smarter. I think so.
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It feels like you are not being taken in a car but in some expensive beautiful leather bag.
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Because of all these lines and all these bulges. By the way, do you know who was given the very first
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Bentley Bentayga? It was Queen Elizabeth II!
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Hello, British nationals! Queen Olga welcomes you to the city of London.
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OK, it is 9:30 a.m. Thus, we can go.
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3.10 is a great life hack, it works. I have just saved 2 pounds.
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The London Underground is like a separate city with a million interesting stories and facts!
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For example, did you know why the cars are rounded?
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This is done so that the new wide subway cars could crawl into the old narrow tunnels.
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The London Underground is so old that the first trains were steam locomotives;
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so all the tunnels were in smoke. Therefore, then the cars were without windows.
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During the war, 180 thousand people lived in the subway! The trains carried food and water through the tunnels,
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and even hot cocoa in the evenings especially for children!
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London museums, they hid their exhibits in the subway.
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Regarding nowadays, 10 thousand umbrellas and more than 25 thousand mobile phones
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are forgotten in the London Underground every year! And among the very strange “losers”,
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there are three dead bats in a glass jar, a set of silicone implants, a samurai sword, a false eye, and a coffin!
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The distance between the stations in the subway is very short.
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For example, the distance between Mansion House and Cannon Street is only 380 meters!
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Locals came up with the following challenge: run out of the train at one station,
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run down the street to the next one, and have time to jump into the same car! I accept the challenge!
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In my reserve, there is 1 minute 20 seconds, 380 meters, 2 turnstiles,
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and 1 pair of feet not yet worn down at the heels. Run, Zaitsev, run.
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So, here to the right. So, here immediately left.
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I think I hear the train come! Damned turnstiles! Trains in the London Underground are at stations for a long time.
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Therefore, I still have a chance.
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Almost caught up. I almost caught up.
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I did not have just a couple of seconds! You know, in fact, this is a great attraction out of the blue!
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Now I will restart my pacemaker and then we will go.
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London is so beautiful! Here everything looks like in the book about Sherlock Holmes!
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I would like to add more music like “tam ta dam tarara dam”.
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London is a city of traditions. However, they live here not in old books but in the neighbourhood!
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Here is a guard on horseback in armour.
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And here the royal infantrymen in hats made of bear fur replace each other on guard.
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And all this to the musical accompaniment of bagpipes!
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It seems that all these people came in the 2019th straight from the 17th century!
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Please me where else in the 21st century will you meet a company of guys dressed up as London dandies,
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that is, with walking sticks and vintage top hats?!
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- What are you doing?
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We are playing cylinderball. You have to take a walking stick and put your hat on like this.
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Then you need to hammer it with a walking stick.
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In this modern metropolis, there are still laws that are already hundreds of years old.
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There is a law forbidding catching a cab if you are sick with plague!
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It is forbidden to glue a stamp with the image of the queen located head down because it equates to treason!
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The queen is still asking for permission to enter London every time!
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According to the old law, residents have the right not to allow her to enter the city!
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London skilfully combines centuries-old traditions and modernity (for example, a public call box with Wi-Fi).
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Mum, please send a pound special for the Internet.
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It is no secret that the British capital is a haven for runaway oligarchs. Why exactly London?
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Because here they feel safe!
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Britain will never extradite them to countries where they have caused so much harm.
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So that the wealth is here at every turn! Don’t you believe me? Just come to Knightsbridge, Chelsea or Belgravia
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and see how Rolls-Royces, Bentley, and sports cars are located here — bumper to bumper!
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Apartments here are worth millions of pounds!
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There are so many indecently rich people in London that it leaves an imprint on everything around!
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For example, if you want a room in a five star hotel, get ready to pay a five-digit sum!
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Ladies and gentlemen, we are in the Marylebone area, next to the Regent’s Park on Langham Place.
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The rich people have already guessed that I will live in the Langham Grand Hotel.
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This is the legendary, the very first grand hotel in Europe! Mark Twain and Arthur Conan Doyle have been here.
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These walls remember Winston Churchill, Charles de Gaulle, and Princess Diana!
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- Hello, miss Antipova. Welcome to Langham Hotel!
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Langham Hotel was built 150 years ago for the richest people in the world. Then it was the height of luxury!
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For the first time in England, elevators (which were called “rising rooms”) appeared here.
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Also, for the first time in England, hot and cold water taps appeared here.
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The corridors are designed so that the ladies in crinoline dresses could cross over and not hook each other.
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And now everything should be even more luxurious. This is my hotel room.
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- Welcome to your room!
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- Please, put your signature here.
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- How much is it?
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So that you understand it reminds one-room apartment in Kiev — for one night.
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Well, let’s see everything here. This is the dining room. It is huge with such a table. Well, this is the dining room.
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Ahhh, yeah, this is the living room. However, we have already seen it.
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And here there is a white piano, such as that of Freddie Mercury or like any other person who has a white piano.
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There is a home cinema. Wow! My window at home is smaller than the TV. Here we have a living room again.
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They say that this chandelier is made with Murano glass. Oh, this wallpaper.
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They say it is decorated with 9-carat gold. Bed, well, that is the king’s bed.
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Look how many (1, 2, 3, 4, and 5)! There are five rows of pillows! I have only 1 at home!
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There is a wardrobe with lighting. Here is a beautiful mirror. Space toilet, just sit silently. Bath! Bath! What a bath!
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Listen, well, this is a very cool hotel room. However, its price...
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It’s got right into my head, since it is almost 24 thousand pounds sterling. It is a lot, it is expensive.
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30 thousand bucks. No, it is still expensive. It is really expensive.
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Nevertheless, in London, the rich are willing to pay that kind of money! After all, Langham — it is prestige,
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it is the same symbol of the city like Big Ben or Tower Bridge.
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I do not know what the opinion of the others is. However, as for me, this is the main symbol of London!
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Tower Bridge! Every pupil knows this silhouette with towers! Hello, my friend!
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Outside, the Tower Bridge was seen by millions of people. However, only a few of them saw it inside.
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In any case, we have not seen it in “Heads and Tails”. I will correct the situation.
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Therefore, I will show and tell you all about it.
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The entrance here costs almost 11.5 dollars. However, it is better for a budget tourist
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to buy a single ticket for two attractions at once, that is, the bridge and the London Monument for 16 dollars.
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Thus, you will save almost 2 dollars!
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If you come to the bridge at the time of its closure, they will not let you in there.
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However, they will give you a nice bonus, i. e. a pound discount on your next visit.
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By the way, they close the bridge until 5.00 p.m.
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I would like to tell you some interesting facts about the Tower Bridge. It was built for eight years from almost
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30 thousand stones. One million one hundred eighty four thousand pounds.
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10 persons died during its construction. 42 meters above the Thames.
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And you say that our television show is not informative. Everything is here!
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When we say “Tower Bridge”, we mean two bridges at once! Lower and upper.
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Why do we need to build another bridge over the bridge? When the bridge is drawn here, there, in the gallery,
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you can still pass to the other side. Isn’t it convenient? Sure, it is.
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However, the people did not appreciate this notion of architects.
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And they still waited downstairs until the lower bridge was brought back.
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And the upper bridge began to turn into one of the darkest places in London.
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Over time, suicides began to appear in the gallery. Oleg, do not dissuade me! I will jump down.
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Homeless people and girls of easy virtue.
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Hence, the upper bridge was converted from the pedestrian zone into a viewing platform
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with a transparent floor.
And it seems that people and cars tickle your heels.
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And now the most interesting facts! Tower Bridge is the world’s first mechanical drawbridge!
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The two halves are laid out to miss the ships which height is more than 9 meters.
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Once it was drawn every time someone wanted to swim, i. e. up to 50 times a day.
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And now we need to give an application in advance because they give way to the ships in groups
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just a couple of times a week.
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It was the first movable bridge, which was driven not by hand but by a special mechanism using steam supply.
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How did it work? The firemen threw coal and heated the water,
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which gave steam and pressure to start the system. However, they did not use such a shovel but this one.
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Olga, in London, with a gold card, you can forget for a while that you are an ordinary girl.
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In the next hour, I am the new girlfriend of James Bond.
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In London, there is entertainment for the rich, which is called the “James Bond Experience”.
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The guide in the image of James Bond will be at your service!
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And you can drive along the River Thames on a high-speed boat, like agent 007 in the Spectre movie.
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And after the extreme chase, James Bond will kindly tell you all about London!
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And here is the Shakespeare Globe Theatre! However, it is not real.
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This is a replica! 400 years ago, it was a great place for parties!
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This is the Belfast warship, that is, a floating museum moored on the River Thames!
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It was blown up by a German mine during the Second World War!
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And this is the Shard skyscraper, i. e. the highest building in London! Its height is 310 meters!
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And here is the old fortress-prison — Tower. Anne Boleyn was executed here.
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This is a great tour! There is adrenaline and it is very informative!
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And it turned out that the Thames is an ideal route to see all major London attractions
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in an hour without traffic jams and crowds of tourists!
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- Beautiful girl! My job is to turn good girls into bad ones. If you want, then I will ride you on my Aston Martin!
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Bye-bye, Agent 007. It was very funny.
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For an hour, I was rescued, fascinated, my heart was broken, and they also told me about London.
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That was my excursion.
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Dear bar fans, London is full of bars and restaurants. However, I chose one of the most unusual among them.
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Let’s go and see!
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This is a very trendy bar called “Attendant”! What is its feature?
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Yes, it did not seem to you. These are urinals, since this bar is located in a former public toilet, Victorian toilet.
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A story with a scent awaits us.
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You probably have a reasonable question “how does it smell here?”
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It smells like it should smell in such places (I mean coffee and cinnamon). It really smells good here.
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Sure, today in London, each apartment has a bathroom.
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However, in the 19th century, it was necessary to run to the street because of need!
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The educated Londoners did not say “I am going to the toilet”. Instead, they said, “I will go and spend a penny”
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just because it was worth so much to go here. This toilet served people from 1890 to the 60s of the 20th century.
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Just imagine that it saw the grooms of the 19th century. It saw fashion-mongers in colourful flares of the 60s
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and maybe even world celebrities. Well of course it saw them not in the best light and not completely;
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however, it saw them. Then it was closed for 50 years and then they completely cleaned out
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and made such a bar. Porcelain urinals (sorry) and tiles on the walls were left in their original form.
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So you see that in London, even the toilets have their own story.
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For the pleasure of sitting in such a trendy bar, I had to take a fresh salad for as much as 6 pounds!
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Although there was one unresolved question for me.
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They have a toilet without a toilet. If you need atmosphere and photos, just come here.
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You should not visit this place in order to eat here. And where is the real toilet?
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There are such doors on Piccadilly Street and this is not a garage or even a grandfather’s barn.
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This is Hide Restaurant. In English,
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“hide” means “to put or keep somebody/something in a place where they/it cannot be seen or found”.
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Well, rich Londoners go to hide and dine right here. Well, I am rich.
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Hide is owned by the famous millionaire Yevgeny Chichvarkin.
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Hence, this is a millionaire restaurant for millionaires.
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Wow! Look at this staircase! I’ve got the feeling that they did not make it and it grew up here itself.
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Here the stairs cost 400,000 pounds! Wow! It costs like two Bentley cars!
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Oh, what is that? Well, this is a set of maracas.
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Oh, okay! I am in the expensive restaurant! Therefore, I will not embarrass myself.
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Nevertheless, the maracas are great.
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If you do not know what to order, then I recommend you to choose a tasting set of 11 dishes,
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the price of wish depends on the wine. I will take a set with the most expensive wine which costs 495 pounds.
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It is expensive. I will be fired.
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Hide Restaurant got a Michelin star six months after its opening! This is an unprecedented success!
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The main dish of our chef is an egg that is cooked at 72 degrees for two and a half hours.
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It is in butter with fried mushrooms. Enjoy.
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It seems that this is really an egg in the nest. It feels like a culinary bird laid it.
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I do not even have anyone to compare. Just imagine that you took a warm yolk, which is slightly undercooked.
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They added there fatty butter, mushrooms, and mixed up it all. This is how it tastes.
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However, the most interesting, of course, is the serve, which looks as if the chicken brought it. Speckled Hen.
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And this is our top dessert.
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I have never seen such a beautiful dessert. Just imagine it is served in a piece of ice.
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Yeah, it is ice. And if I touch it with my tongue...
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No, it does not stick. There is a plant in a piece of ice, that is, they froze a cactus.
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My God, what a beauty! This is a super serving. I am excited. Now I will try to guess what I eat
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with my eyes closed.
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This is some kind of sorbet. Therefore, outside you might think that it might be a raspberry, strawberry,
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or cherry. I do not know, since everything is red. However, no. Maybe it is a peach.
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I understood what it is. And you know what it is. This is not a fruit. This is what we eat in borscht!
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Here we have beetroot! Beetroot ice cream! This is something unreal! In London, this is quite natural.
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This dish, some kind of New Year. Christmas tree, cold fog, a cup with foam, and nuts on top.
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There is such huge milk foam. It is such a tender and tasty dessert.
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I can safely call it one of the most delicious desserts in my life.
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I was shocked that there are not nuts and crisps, since it is an acorn dessert. Just imagine!
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It is acorn! Acorn. I eat acorn.
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− Good afternoon!
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− Hello! How do you like our restaurant?
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− Oh, it is great! Everything here is very tasty.
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− I am very happy.
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− Are you a restaurant director?
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− Oh, even worse — I am its owner.
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What??? Chichvarkin??? Well, guys, it is silly to miss the chance to talk face to face with a real millionaire!
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Yevgeny Chichvarkin is an eccentric millionaire.
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He started his career with trading on the market and now he is the owner of the store with the largest wine list
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in the world, as well as the Hide restaurant.
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− You once said that your task is to tempt people with a service. So, how should we understand it?
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− Here we had a case when two guests ordered one steak and asked to do half as a medium rare and half —
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as a medium well. Well, if it was a chicken, then you can bake half of it and leave the second one undercooked.
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And we did it! Well, that is, we took a half and cut it. Then we made one half of it as well done and
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brought it together with the rest. There are strange requests.
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To very arrogant guests, we could say that we do not do it like this, and we are not ready for it.
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However, we are ready for almost everything.
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− The restaurant makes a rather modest first impression.
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Perhaps there are some details here or we do not understand something. What is there?
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− There are a lot of hidden details.
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There are people who come here once a week and still find something new.
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There are both footprints and my credit card, which is hidden somewhere, as a source of money.
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Somewhere the letters are hidden. Somewhere there are moss, wells, keys, etc. Yes, this is not Pshonka-style.
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There are no gold monograms, toilets, and a crane in the form of a golden goose.
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However, this is such a modest beauty without too much pathos. And after a while you will fall in love with it all,
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you will miss it.
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Now I understand that people do not come to the restaurant to fill their stomachs
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but for so-called hedonism, that is, to receive pleasure!
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Exquisite interior, fine dining, and high society conversation!
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Just remember, to save money, I bought a double ticket at the entrance to the Tower Bridge.
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It is time to use its second part!
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In London, everything breathes history. It is not just a column with an observation platform at the top.
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First, it is the highest free-standing column in the world.
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And secondly, it is a monument in memory of the great London fire,
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from the top of which opens the best view of London.
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The fire began in the house of the baker and almost destroyed London completely!
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The fire happened in 1666 during the reign of Charles II of England and lasted 4 days.
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It burned several thousand houses, 87 churches, and almost 2/3 of the city.
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70 thousand people were left homeless and took it not just as a natural disaster but a real apocalypse.
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Moreover, the year of the fire — 1666 — contained three sixes, that is, the number of the devil!
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However, on the other hand, some historians claim that it was this great fire that stopped the plague and,
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at the same time, gave impetus to the development of construction,
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since after that a law was passed that all new buildings should be made of stone and brick.
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Thus, another London (the one we know today) began to appear.
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Just see what a clear division is here: old London, industrial London, and London as a modern metropolis.
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Some famous person who has lived in London all his life said that if you are tired of London,
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it means that you are tired of life. Because here there is everything that a city can offer to a person.
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I am pleased to be in solidarity with the wisest people.
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When you have a lot of money, London seems to be somehow too grown up and serious — a car, a restaurant,
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a hotel. However, I know what it takes to make the evening in London fun.
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Balls, a lot of balls.
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This does not exist anywhere in the world! Just in the middle of the Ballie Ballerson Club there is a huge pool!
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And instead of water there are plastic balls in it!!!
There really are a million, a million balls.
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Can you imagine it? As a child, I always dreamed of jumping into the ball pools when I saw them.
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Well, I thought it would hurt because they were hard. You seem to be in bubbly water.
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You can neither get up nor move.
You can dive in these balls like a dolphin!
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Swim in them like a crocodile! And flounder as much as you want!
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Ahh, God! Oh my God!
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Ahhh! I did not pay a thousand pounds for it, since it costs a penny.
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However, the emotions, which you can get here, are just unreal. I have retreated into a childlike state.
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Having walked, I went looking for an overnight stay. London is full of cheap hostels.
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However, they are all on the outskirts. Nevertheless, I did find a super option in the very centre!
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It even sounds like a fairy tale. I live almost in the centre of London (near Hyde Park) for 12 pounds.
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Welcome to my mansions.
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Now I understand how they save in the Smart Hostels network!
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It is even difficult to call it a room, since it is a narrow passage between the beds,
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and the beds themselves are three-story! To the very ceiling!
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A room overlooking the sea? Well, there’s a stroke of luck.
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I travel so often in a poor way that I can be called the king of state employees.
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Moreover, I already know the best places in the hostel where no one else can get to you.
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In general, it is an incredible happiness to live within walking distance of Hyde Park and central London,
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as well as spend less than 12 pounds on it. OK, I am happy.
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There is a stereotype that London is gloomy and grey.
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It is said by those people who have never been here in the spring!
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London is so blooming and smelling that I want to become a bee!
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Ahhh, what a sweet aroma of sakura (Japanese cherry) and free entertainment.
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There are so many ways to see London — from the water, from the ground, from the air.
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However, I will show you one that takes your breath away!
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In London, there are many amazing buildings. Nevertheless, the most ambitious is the O2 Arena!
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The arena is covered with the largest dome in the world, in which a special meaning is encrypted.
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Its diameter is 365 meters (just like days per year).
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There are 12 sectors (according to the number of months).
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And its height is 52 meters (according to the number of weeks).
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This is O2 Arena. There are always the loudest concerts, competitions, and contests.
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However, I do not care what is inside. I want to know what is upstairs. On it.
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At the very top of the dome, there is an observation deck. There is a steep path.
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Now I will climb there and, to tell the truth, my nerves are totally shot.
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This is an exciting adventure! Strong wind. The track springs like a trampoline.
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Safety cable keeps me from falling into the abyss.
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Just look, what a beauty!
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I climbed the huge white dome, which looks like the snowy top of Everest, and the suit is appropriate, right?
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The place is truly unique, since here you can see London at full 360 degrees!
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Do you know what is special about this place? It lies in the fact that I am practically on the prime meridian.
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As you may see, that green ball is a Royal Greenwich Observatory and the prime meridian starts from it.
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That is, as the beginning of the Earth. It turns out that I am at the beginning of the beginning.
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Any ascent must be celebrated with champagne!
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Just agree that it is better to drink champagne on the top of a giant dome,
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when you have all London at your feet, than somewhere in a restaurant!
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London is a truly unique metropolis.
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There is a place where you can visit two sides of the world at the same time! This is the prime meridian!
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For those who did not like to learn geography at school, I will explain. The prime meridian is a conditional line
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that divides the Earth into two hemispheres: the Western and the Eastern one.
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It passes through the Royal Greenwich Observatory.
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Well, here it is a legendary place where the Earth is divided into the Eastern and Western hemispheres.
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The only problem is that the entrance costs as much as 15 pounds. Therefore, the budget tourist cannot afford it.
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However, it seems I found a way out.
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Here is the exit, which is not closed. So, it means that you can go.
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Here it is! The prime meridian! Left — west, right — east!
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Look, I am in the east. Poof! And now I am a man of the Western world.
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I want to philosophize and lie on the pillows in my palace.
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I want to become a sheriff and compose country music. I adore Omar Khayyam. I am crazy about Immanuel Kant.
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Whatever you would feel (as if a person of the East or a person of the West),
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please do not repeat what I did and rather pay for the entrance. And I will live with it.
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I like that kind of life. I saw the prime meridian!
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However, to tell the truth, there is another way to not only see it but also to remain a law-abiding tourist.
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In fact, that pop meridian, next to which everyone takes pictures, is not real.
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The real meridian is somewhere in a hundred meters from the observatory.
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If I understand correctly, it is about here. Or here. By the way, why, according to the rules of the program,
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only the rich hide something? I would like to break this system.
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Dear travellers, here I am hiding the prime meridian for you. So, look for it.
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Keep putting one foot in front of the other.
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When you come to London, be sure to check the calendar of events and holidays,
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since there is always something interesting going on. London is beautiful because it has everything!
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And even with only a hundred dollars, here you can still find something to have fun!
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Racing in boats, light show... Oh, so far the most exciting event is the London Games Parade.
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I want to be properly understood by the London Games Parade.
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Games Festival is a festival for gamers! I am not a fan of computer games! But!
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Any parade is fun and a way to better feel the atmosphere of the city. Therefore, I will go!
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Only according to the rules, there must be a costume. I will find it.
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The money that I have was enough only for a stupid cloak of cheap fabric and a felt mask.
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Red has a super ability, that is, he knows when to run.
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Pikachu of the normal person, Pikachu of the smoker. Guys, here comes a brilliant decision — I spent 8 pounds;
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however, you just did not throw away the old shoe boxes.
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Red, the unicorn girl and a guy with a very thick moustache for his age.
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What do attack aircraft do in everyday life? Here they breed a family and grow corn. Darth Vader is sleeping.
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This is a smart decision, i. e. grandfather’s suit. He has been wearing it for years.
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The essence of the festival is to dress up in the costumes of your favourite characters,
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as well as fun and loud walk around the city in this form.
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Thank you! Thank you very much, guys! I love you! See Heads and Tails, thank you.
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Games Festival is one of the biggest festivals for gamers in the world. Sure. There are 37 of us here.
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Well, we look like traffic light!
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This will have to be removed and trimmed. Here we have to put the fillings!
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And, sure, to make a general photo, so that later you have something to show to your friends!
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I have already met modern London. It is time to learn the ancient one.
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There is even a representation, which is called a “Medieval Banquet”. And I am ready.
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This is terribly popular entertainment in London. For 50 pounds, you get the entourage of the dungeon
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of the castle, costume performance with songs, dances, and sword fights, as well
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as a dinner, during which they tell different interesting things about the English feasts
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during the time of King Arthur!
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Previously, in the Middle Ages, people did not clap their hands, they beat their fists on the table using forks,
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knives, glasses, etc. The main thing is to create as much noise as possible.
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Here they explain how to make medieval toasts!
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How to call a waitress!
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And how to sing old English songs!
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At this banquet, you realize that in the Middle Ages dinner was not at all the same as we used to see it!
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I am over here pouring myself a drink. Got it. This is some kind of soup. Green. Where is the spoon?
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- Excuse me! Where is the spoon?
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In England, not all people had cutlery because they could not afford it.
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Therefore, many people used liquid products in this way.
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They did not use plates but a slice of bread. They put food on it and ate it like this.
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Since the bread was soaked with fat, they later ate it too. This is reliable information. I read about it.
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Since the meat was too expensive, cheese, bread, and wine were the main products.
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And even for eating meat on Wednesday, Friday, and Saturday, one could be easily brought to church justice.
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Even the king could not eat meat!
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In medieval England, drinking water was unsafe, since the garbage and sewage often merged into reservoirs.
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Therefore, they drank wine and ale!
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- Well done, guys!
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Frankly speaking, this is unrealistically cool place. I thought that this is an ordinary tourist trap.
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Nevertheless, here more than half of the people are local. Some of them come to celebrate a birthday
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and just have a good time. I would like to emphasize once again that the atmosphere here is super.
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I am delighted, I am very glad that I visited this place.
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Dear friends, if you stay in London without money, these 100 dollars will help you.
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Just believe me that with their help you will have a great weekend.
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The bottle is hidden next to the Tate Modern Museum. Here in the square, there is a brick wall twined with ivy.
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The bottle is up there under the high cypress. Good luck! Good luck!
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At first you think that you need to act like you are in front of Queen of England, when you come to London.
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You think that everything is grand and serious here.
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But it turns out that London is a crazy metropolis.
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And the subjects of the queen are avid merry fellows.
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You do not get bored with such a company.
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− Anton, my words are over.
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− I also have nothing more to say.
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− Bye! Hey, listen! How do you say “11” in English? Ten and one?
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− This is not entirely true.
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− “11” is “eleven”.
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− “Eleven” is just like the name. Name of the number!