Some London Highlights

Borough market - This sells quite expensive food, so you might not want to buy, but it's well worth the wander around, as it's got food from all around the world there.

Shepherd's market - This is a nice little area just off Picadilly (look for Shepherd Street on the map), opposite side of the road from Green Park. It's got a lot of good restaurants and bars in a small area.

Carnaby Street (Just off Regent Street, by Libertys) - Used to be good in the 60s then lapsed for a while and is now getting hip once more. It's quite like the Neal Street, Covent Garden area.

Portobello market - supposedly an antiques market, but increasingly Portobello road is going upmarket with boutique shops. Now the main street for the Notting Hill Carnival.

The Thames - At night, a visitor should either take a dinner cruise up from Embankment pier to Greenwich and back, or if they're on a budget walk over Waterloo bridge which give's the best view of London. Apart from the stretch from Westminster to Greenwich, my other favourite part of the Thames is from Hampton Court upwards. Here the river is narrower and much more picturesque.

Hampstead Heath - In my opinion, the best park in London. There's some lovely pubs in Hampstead, the view from Parliament Hill over London's great, and the men and women's open-air swimming pools (or should that be ponds) are great in the summer.