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Italy was the country we had dreamed to visit long before in the Soviet Union, where there was iron curtain and it was impossible to go abroad. At last our group of relatives managed to make this tour in six days with a very good guide. Our guide Boris M. did his best to show us the country in such a short period. Italy made an impression of a country without strict rules: it was strange to see cars and buses on tram rails, then trams themselves on the same rails. People are lively and open. There are difficulties with languages, often we could not communicate, but still somebody knowing English could be found. We were told that in Naples mafia controlled restaurants, and in fact on our first morning in that town in a café I saw a man walking about and watching attentively.

The tourist objects were in good order. In the forum of ancient Rome there were  lots of tourists, and at some moment a woman from our group was lost. She immediately came to a policeman and very soon joined our group again. After a day in Rome we were taken to Tivoly, villa D’Este with 100 fountains of very special construction. In the evening we had a dinner in a restaurant, where we listened to very good singers, one of them a young girl, a singer of Rome Opera.

Summer is coming, my dear friends, isn’t? Obviously each of us has started to plan already to realize the most wonderful vacation dreams. Great idea! Because the universe is filled with so many wonder and magical things we have not seen but still want to discover.

What is the place we want to visit again and again? It’s London of course, because every time one meets this fantastic city he or she discovers something new without fail. Like a resonance of its very name suggests history and might London provides infinite opportunities for entertainment by day and night go on, exhilarating and intimidating, stimulating and irritating in equal measure again and again. It’s undoubtedly one of the most beautiful and mysterious cities in the world and everyone who takes its contrasts and cacophonies once then will be charmed with it for good. Anyway whether you’re going away on a family vacation, a short getaway, romantic, honeymoon, business or leisure trip it is worth to contact Tour Guide for the premier choice for all your travel needs and successful vacation. It will help you to figure out your splendid holiday in London or any other place you’ve chosen for and to be perfectly guided around its wonders.

Our excursion included also Oxford and Stratford upon Avon. Oxford is a very clean, nice and beautiful town with one- or two-storey buildings, we were in University campus and felt the atmosphere, in which students of old times learned. After that we went to Shakspere’s  native town and visited his wife’s Anne Hathaway house. In the centre of the town there is a remarkable monument to the immortal writer with many personages of his plays. There are 3 theatres in Stratford and the town looks nicely. What about theatres there are very many theatres in London and they are always full.
On one of the evenings we were taken to a restaurant-show “Beef-eaters”. There we tasted an ancient English soup and other good dishes and excellnt wine and bread. There was a show of knight tournament.
We were again in the Trafalgar Sqare and dropped for a short time in National Gallery. On the last day of our excursion we went to famous British Museum, where we met groups of French schoolchildren, that came from France for weekend. Dickens museum was not far from our hotel and there we went and were the only visitors of it at the time. Only one black woman fulfilled all the charges.  

When we planned our flying to London we checked cheap flights to London. We arrived in London in the morning. Our bus took us to the hotel. The first impression of London was of a whole region of small houses made of red brick, all of them having chimneys on the roof. Our guide told us that it was an old region and now mostly immigrants live here. Our hotel “Imperial Hotel” was in the centre of the city, Russel Square. The hotel was not new, but placed comfortably and gave us good breakfasts. What I noticed, the personnel was rather strict and even didn’t permit to change places they gave us for breakfast. This feature was characteristic for English clerks further on. In the evening we visited Picadilly Circus, Trafalgar Sqare with Nelson column (really very high), Green Park and looked at Buckingham Palace from outside. At that time the old queen, queen Elizabeth’s mother, still lived there.
Westminster Abbey was a very long hall, containing graves of heroes and noble persons, well-known writers and scientists. There is a grave of an unknown soldier in the centre. All the coronations are being performed here.
There are 33 regions in London.  There is no municipality, the regions have their own administrations. In Whitehall there are ministries and buildings for Queen’s guards. Queen’s guards are very picturesq in their red clothes and big fur caps. Parliament House and Big Ben known all over the world are placed on the Themse river. They were built in the X1X century. Tower bridge near the famous Tower is decorated with small towers and chains. In the Tower we watched the quieen’s jewelry and crown with lots of jewels. In the Tower yard there was earlier execution place, where noble persons and some king’s wives were executed. There live ravens in the Tower yard and it is said that while they live there, England will live, so they are taken much care of.
We visited the old Hampton Court palace, where in the kitchens we saw big old kettles, the rooms look rather modest. Windsor Palace not far from London looked better, the rooms decorated nicely, but the throne looked like a simple arm-chair. It gave a good impression, the oldest monarchy did not need luxury.
Saint Paul Cathedral is the second big cathedral in Europe after Italian Saint Peter. Madam Tussaud’s museum is the most remarkable place. Lots of historical figures made quite naturally from wax, numerous rooms, I was especially impressed by the figures of Maria Antoinette and her family. You couldn’t escape riding on the “taxy”, where London spirit is expressed uniqally.