prettycitylondon: Discovering London’s Beautiful Places (The Pretty Cities, 1)

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There are lots of beautiful restaurants to Instagram in London, but topping the list has to be Sketch. For those gardens with an entry fee, it is usually cheaper (and easier) to book your tickets online.

Red phone booths used to be all over the city, but these days there are less and less – and further between them. Along the way you peek at London Bridge, The Globe, The Millennium Bridge, The Tate Modern, National Theatre, BFI Southbank, Southbank Centre and much, much more besides. Home to more than 200 species of trees and plants, it’s also blessed with a variety of animals, fungi and birds and is a great place for a walk. Originally centred around fifth-century BC hilltop citadel the Acropolis, the Greek capital has since sprawled into an urban mass with gritty appeal.The reserve is home to plenty of wildlife, too; such as the largest pipistrelle bat roost in London, muntjac deer, terrapins and slow worms. Graffiti is officially allowed in the Leake Street Tunnel beneath Waterloo Station and as such it’s an ever-changing canvas of artworks, perfect for photos.

You can often find a man there who creates huge reams of bubbles that float perfectly in front of your shot. Back in the early Twentieth-Century, Alfriston so captivatedauthorEleanor Farjeon that she wrote the classic hymn 'Morning Has Broken' (later recorded by Cat Stevens) while staying here.San Francisco’s world-class museums and cultural institutions rival any on the planet—remarkable for a city of fewer than a million people. But it’s the quirky bars, pubs and restaurants of Reykjavik that give a flavour of this tiny population’s offbeat way of life. It’s a much shorter and more compact trail than The Line (see entry in South London above) – though you can combine the two for an epic day exploring east London’s public art. Whether you’re strolling along the Seine or sipping chocolat chaud from a Saint-Germain café, France’s devastatingly sexy capital is still the most romantic city in the world.