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Enjoying London on a Budget

There was a time when London was to visit an expensive city. Due to the financial crisis in the area of cheap – and free – has to do things in London, expanded.

Most visitors come to London for its cultural attractions, museums, theaters and galleries. Many of his major museums are free, as much of its small, specialized museums and galleries. Theater tickets from around £ 10 (the Globe Theatre cheapest tickets are only £ 5).

Careful planning in advance can help ensure that you arrive in London for one of his many great ceremonial events to which the public can attend free of charge. It procession of the mayor in November, for example, when to coach the newly elected mayor of London he was spectacular at the Royal Courts of Justice, there is the magnificence of the Trooping the Colour in June to celebrate the Queen’s birthday, there is the daily changing of the guard ceremony at Buckingham Palace.

There are also less formal events like the Notting Hill Carnival for two days in late August, and the City of London Festival runs, for about a month in summer, with a series of free events and conditions. Public transportation is plentiful in London, and to use much cheaper if you an Oyster card, a smart card to buy the current on the London buses, underground trains, trams and trains, the surface is. A typical travel with an Oyster card costs about half the cash price. On the subway, just swipe the card on the reader as you, and enter the train and bus on the left handed player next to the driver.
The cheaper hotels tend to be a bit “to be street outside the center of town, but the extent of the underground and bus networks means that the center of things long sequences.

As for food, the world is literally at your feet in London.

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