The picturesque Arctic Coast Way is a newly-christened, 900 km touring route in North Iceland, which features in Lonely Planet's "Best in Europe 2019 Guide". A lesser-visited coastline than its southern counterpart, the scenery is equally dramatic and inspiring. Discover winding roads that hug clifftops, trace peninsulas and skirt deserted beaches. Encounter the locals in the 21 tiny villages that dot the route. Visit in spring or summer when the coast is bathed in the golden light of the midnight sun. Or early autumn with the chance of witnessing the aurora. Since World War II, the British have been hampered with a reputation for grey, bleak food, and an absence of culinary tradition. This belief, prompted by the rudimentary diet of ration-book Britain, persists all over the world to the present day, but couldn’t be further from the truth. From all corners of the isles, Britain has so many delights and delicacies, all steeped in the traditions of the communities that give the country its identity. Once you’ve worked your way through these 10 choices, you’ll want to get out and explore the rest of what Britain has to offer. When you think of British people, you think of tea. Hardly a surprise, as the average Brit drinks around three cups a day, and the country itself brews around 62 billion cups each year – it’s a well-earned reputation, and one that most people in the UK would readily admit to. The most popular alcoholic beverage, by some distance, in the United Kingdom is beer, which accounts for around 70% of all drinks ordered in pubs. In fact, beer has been brewed on British land since before the arrival of the ancient Romans, and breweries remain common throughout the country today. From backroom microbreweries to beers with centuries-old recipes like Newcastle Brown Ale and London’s very own Fuller’s Ale, Britain is – and forever will be – mad about its beer. Wherever you are, and whatever you’re doing, you’re never too far from a proper pint, so you have no excuse not to try one. No trip to London is complete without visiting Brick lane in the capital’s east, and no trip to Brick Lane is complete without a salt beef bagel. It’s an innovation of Britain’s Jewish community, now adored up and down the UK (as the lines outside the sandwich shops will tell you). The original creators of this dish in late 1800s took the traditional British staple of boiled beef, and tweaked it with the astringent pickling spices of their Central European heritage, to then served it in freshly baked bagels, slathered in sinus-clearing English mustard. The result was an uproarious success – a cheap, filling, delicious bite; salty and spicy enough to satisfy the area’s factory workers. Nearly a century and a half later, enthusiasm for the salt beef bagel is yet to subside. A hearty slice of bara brith Translating to ‘speckled bread’ in Welsh, bara brith is a classic British tea bread, made from warming spices like nutmeg and cinnamon, and dried fruits – anything from raisins and currants, to chunks of dried apricot. Characteristically moist, the bread gets its sumptuous texture and earthy flavour from brewed tea, which is used as a soaking liquid for the dried fruits. Yeasty, spicy, sweet, and rich, bara brith is typically served warm and in thick, generous slices, with a cup of tea, and a slick of salty butter to contrast with the bread’s natural sweetness. Created and perfected in the tiny Leicestershire town of Melton Mowbray, the hand-raised pork pie is a must for any British picnic – and, more often than not, any British party buffet. Surrounded by a sturdy crust, made with lard and hot water in the traditional way, the pork filling is cooked within the pie before the crust is filled with gelatin made from the pig’s bones. This jelly preserves the cooked meat, meaning that the pie can be stored and transported without spoiling; as such, it has established itself as the perfect snack for a summer afternoon. Fresh fish and chips Where to start with the most British of dishes? Well, if you want to find it, there are over 10,000 independent fish & chip shops up and down the country, from Land’s End to John O’Groats and everywhere in between. It is the British dish: North Sea cod, or more commonly haddock nowadays, battered and fried, with a shovel’s-worth of chips, and lashings of salt and vinegar. Best eaten, of course, out of the paper it’s served in. You’ve heard of it already, but can’t possibly visit Britain without trying it properly.
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London is the capital city of England and the United Kingdom. It is the most populous city in the United Kingdom, with a metropolitan area of over 13 million inhabitants. Standing on the River Thames, London has been a major settlement for two millennia, its history going back to its founding by the Romans, who named it Londinium. London's ancient core, the City of London, largely retains its 2.9 km2 mediaeval boundaries and in 2011 had a resident population of 7,375; making it the smallest city in England. Since at least the 19th century, the term London has also referred to the metropolis developed around this core. The bulk of this conurbation forms the Greater London administrative area (coterminous with the London region), governed by the Mayor of London and the London Assembly.
London is a leading global city, with strengths in the arts, commerce, education, entertainment, fashion, finance, healthcare, media, professional services, research and development, tourism, and transport. It is one of the world's leading financial centres and has the fifth-or sixth-largest metropolitan area GDP in the world depending on measurement. London is a world cultural capital. It is the world's most-visited city as measured by international arrivals and has the world's largest city airport system measured by passenger traffic. London's 43 universities form the largest concentration of higher education institutes in Europe. In 2012, London became the first city to host the modern Summer Olympic Games three times.
London has a diverse range of peoples and cultures, and more than 300 languages are spoken within Greater London. The region had an official population of 8,416,535 in 2013, the largest of any municipality in the European Union, and accounting for 12.5% of the UK population. London's urban area is the second most populous in the EU, after Paris, with 9,787,426 inhabitants according to the 2011 census. The city's metropolitan area is the third most populous in Europe after Moscow and Istanbul, with 13,614,409 inhabitants, while the Greater London Authority puts the population of London metropolitan region at 21 million. London was the world's most populous city from around 1831 to 1925.
London contains four World Heritage Sites: the Tower of London; Kew Gardens; the site comprising the Palace of Westminster, Westminster Abbey, and St Margaret's Church; and the historic settlement of Greenwich (in which the Royal Observatory, Greenwich marks the Prime Meridian, 0° longitude, and GMT). Other famous landmarks include Buckingham Palace, the London Eye, Piccadilly Circus, St Paul's Cathedral, Tower Bridge, Trafalgar Square, and The Shard. London is home to numerous museums, galleries, libraries, sporting events and other cultural institutions, including the British Museum, National Gallery, Tate Modern, British Library and 40 West End theatres. The London Underground is the oldest underground railway network in the world. Today we feature the city of London, capital of the United Kingdom. It is situated in south-eastern England at the head of the River Thames estuary. Settled by the Romans as an important shipping point for crops and minerals, it gradually developed into the wealthy capital of a thriving industrial and agricultural nation. London straddles the River Thames, 80 km upriver from its mouth at the Nore, where the English Channel joins the North Sea. Most of London, including its central districts and the majority of its famous landmarks, lies to the north of the river. The original settlement that gave London its name was the Roman fort of Londinium, founded in the first century AD. The City of London is on the site where this stood, and the description of the Roman town as "a busy emporium for trade and traders" by the Roman historian Tacitus seems equally apt today. St Paul's Cathedral stands on the western edge of the City, and the Tower of London, the Norman fortress built by William the Conqueror to defend his new lands late in the 11th century (listed by UNESCO as a World Heritage Site), lies to the south-east. It is the current repository of the Crown Jewels.
Spanning the river to Southwark (west of Tower Bridge) is London Bridge, a modern replacement of the only bridge over the Thames in London until the 18th century. To the east and north-east of the City are the predominantly working-class districts of the East End, home to successive waves of immigrants from Ireland, continental Europe, and the former British Empire. Lively and industrious, the East End continues to have many thriving small businesses. The area known as the Docklands comprises (on the north bank of the Thames) the districts of Wapping and Poplar, the Isle of Dogs, the Royal Docks, and (to the south of the Thames) Surrey Docks. Docklands is the site of a massive inner city regeneration project. West of the City lie the ancient Inns of Court (Lincoln's Inn, Middle Temple, Inner Temple, and Gray's Inn), the legal district occupied by barristers and firms of solicitors; and Fleet Street, once the home of Britain's national press (which has now relocated to other parts of the capital). Further to the north-west is Bloomsbury, the haunt in the 1920s of a renowned group of literary intellectuals (the Bloomsbury Group), thanks to its proximity to London University and the British Museum.
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The long history and influencing culture of England make the country as one of most popular tourist destinations in the world, have 17 world heritage sites, finest beaches, world class music festivals and games. Every year England welcomes more than 25 million international tourists. In that way tourism plays an important role in economy of the country. Followings are 10 most popular attractions of England.
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