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Back of the queue. Where's Soane's house??London travel app for iPhones/iPods
I've just downloaded a neat little App which has been showing me around London. It's called Superlative London. It's a bit of a Guinness Guide in some ways - biggest, best, oldest, poshest, most popular, only this and that etc but you can of course visit everything here as it’s a travel guide. It does the tourist stuff, oldest statue, tallest buildings etc, as well as clever local stuff too, from dining in "London's gutsiest restaurant" (St John - specialising in offal - which I love!) to seeing the “biggest ever photograph of London” (in City Hall - some amazing pix of this posted on the App) - and the “widest choice of coffee sold in London” - at the brilliant little Algerian Coffee Stores in Soho. Only £1.79 – as the blurb says – “cheaper than a cappuccino and lasts longer” - recommended. You can get it at http://sutromedia.com/apps/Superlative_London A coffee in Neal's Yard, watching a (really good) busker in Covent Garden, shopping in Spitalfields, a glass of wine in dusty old Gordon's Wine Bar on Villiers Street, crossing Waterloo Bridge on a glorious sunny day and taking in the view looking east, a pint of real ale in a traditional London pub (beware fakes!), browsing around Liberty's, searching for treasure in the British Museum, wondering at the natural world in the Natural History Museum. strolling around the Inns of Court, knowing that only a handful of visitors (and not many more locals) even know about these incredible little oases in the heart of London, looking at the London Eye by night - yes, it's a tourist trap (though I've been on twice!), yes it's horribly expensive, but what a great sight....
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