London- shopping, parks

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