London is not the loveliest city in the world, nor the most antique, romantic, or mysterious. Far from exotic, it’s not the richest, largest, or even most happening place on the planet either. All of these in parts, it’s still quite impossible to resist. Civilized, improvised, sophisticated and alive, London wins all comers over in the end. A workaday, endlessly surprising mess, very much the capital of the UK, and very British, it’s also a global town that has grown up thanks to other nations...
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