<?xml version="1.0" encoding="iso-8859-1" ?><rss version="2.0"><channel><title>washingtonpost.com - London</title><link>http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/travel/archive/abroad/europe/greatbritain/london?nav=rss_travel/archive/abroad/europe/greatbritain/london</link><description>London</description><language>en-us</language><ttl>15</ttl><image><title>washingtonpost.com</title><width>140</width><height>20</height><link>http://www.washingtonpost.com</link><url>http://media.washingtonpost.com/wp-srv/hp/image/wp_web.gif</url></image><item><title><![CDATA[A Magical Mystery Tour]]></title><link>http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A61700-2005Mar23.html?nav=rss_travel/archive/abroad/europe/greatbritain/london</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A61700-2005Mar23.html?nav=rss_travel/archive/abroad/europe/greatbritain/london</guid><pubDate>Thu, 31 Mar 2005 20:20:33 GMT</pubDate><description><![CDATA[LONDON, March 23<br> The four long-haired young men from Liverpool were a half-hour late when they poured into Studio Two at EMI Records on Abbey Road on June 6, 1962. They raced nervously through a ragged set of songs, while a producer named George Martin listened to the audition from the...]]></description><author> Glenn Frankel</author></item><item><title><![CDATA[It's Bloomin' London]]></title><link>http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A27133-2005Mar11.html?nav=rss_travel/archive/abroad/europe/greatbritain/london</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A27133-2005Mar11.html?nav=rss_travel/archive/abroad/europe/greatbritain/london</guid><pubDate>Thu, 31 Mar 2005 20:20:33 GMT</pubDate><description><![CDATA[ <em>Few cities deserve a giant pick-me-up bouquet after a dreary winter more than London. Fortunately, that comes in the form of the annual Chelsea Flower Show, the granddaddy of such events. The famed exhibition and competition draws 157,000 visitors and sets trends in the horticultural world. Secure a decent deal on flights by planning a jaunt to London now.</em>]]></description><author></author></item><item><title><![CDATA[Postcard From Tom: London]]></title><link>http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A7502-2005Mar4.html?nav=rss_travel/archive/abroad/europe/greatbritain/london</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A7502-2005Mar4.html?nav=rss_travel/archive/abroad/europe/greatbritain/london</guid><pubDate>Thu, 31 Mar 2005 20:20:33 GMT</pubDate><description><![CDATA[AMAYA <em>(15 Halkin Arcade, Motcomb Street, Belgravia, 011-44-20-7823-1166)</em>]]></description><author></author></item><item><title><![CDATA[London War Rooms Add Churchill Museum]]></title><link>http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A63778-2005Feb4.html?nav=rss_travel/archive/abroad/europe/greatbritain/london</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A63778-2005Feb4.html?nav=rss_travel/archive/abroad/europe/greatbritain/london</guid><pubDate>Thu, 31 Mar 2005 20:20:33 GMT</pubDate><description><![CDATA[  London's new Churchill Museum will never see the light of day.]]></description><author></author></item><item><title><![CDATA[In London, Say Ta-Ta To Touristy Spots]]></title><link>http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A39983-2004Dec31.html?nav=rss_travel/archive/abroad/europe/greatbritain/london</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A39983-2004Dec31.html?nav=rss_travel/archive/abroad/europe/greatbritain/london</guid><pubDate>Thu, 31 Mar 2005 20:20:33 GMT</pubDate><description><![CDATA[When I moved to London from the United States in late 1997, I knew no one. Worse, as a new journalist at the BBC, I worked the graveyard shift: 8 p.m. to 8 a.m. three to four days a week, including every other weekend. Even if I'd had any friends, they wouldn't have been up for an after-work drink at 9 a.m. or free when I woke up at 2 p.m. on a Tuesday.]]></description><author> Jane Black</author></item><item><title><![CDATA[London Calling, But at What Price?]]></title><link>http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A63184-2004Aug13.html?nav=rss_travel/archive/abroad/europe/greatbritain/london</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A63184-2004Aug13.html?nav=rss_travel/archive/abroad/europe/greatbritain/london</guid><pubDate>Thu, 31 Mar 2005 20:20:33 GMT</pubDate><description><![CDATA[    RESEARCH QUESTION:  Are those too-good-to-be-true air/hotel packages to Europe, well, too good to be true? You know the ones -- cheap deals to European capitals that pop up on Internet discount sites like Travel Zoo (<a href="http://www.travelzoo.com">www.travelzoo.com</a>) and Smarter Living (<a href="http://www.smarterliving.com">www.smarterliving.com</a>), bundling air and hotel costs into one preposterously low total. When a $499 six-night summer trip to London recently appeared on Go-Today.com, it seemed too cheap <em>not </em>to go. The trip would have cost at least $1,150 if purchased ` la carte: Airfare was running about $750, and a bare-bones hotel would have added at least another $400.]]></description><author></author></item><item><title><![CDATA[London's Fringe Scene]]></title><link>http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A63460-2004May28.html?nav=rss_travel/archive/abroad/europe/greatbritain/london</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A63460-2004May28.html?nav=rss_travel/archive/abroad/europe/greatbritain/london</guid><pubDate>Thu, 31 Mar 2005 20:20:33 GMT</pubDate><description><![CDATA[For most visitors, a trip to London means a night or two at the theater. But increasingly, Americans are learning what the Brits have known for some time: Many of the best shows in town are not playing in the West End but at venues around town known collectively as Off-West End and the Fringe.]]></description><author> Susan Davidson</author></item><item><title><![CDATA[Something Flaky in London]]></title><link>http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A58008-2004Feb20.html?nav=rss_travel/archive/abroad/europe/greatbritain/london</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A58008-2004Feb20.html?nav=rss_travel/archive/abroad/europe/greatbritain/london</guid><pubDate>Thu, 31 Mar 2005 20:20:33 GMT</pubDate><description><![CDATA[The turnover-shape pastries are golden, glistening and hot. Inside are delectable fillings: steak and Guinness, chicken and vegetable, lamb and mint, cheese and mushroom.]]></description><author></author></item><item><title><![CDATA[Outside The Box]]></title><link>http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A28491-2004Mar26.html?nav=rss_travel/archive/abroad/europe/greatbritain/london</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A28491-2004Mar26.html?nav=rss_travel/archive/abroad/europe/greatbritain/london</guid><pubDate>Thu, 31 Mar 2005 20:20:33 GMT</pubDate><description><![CDATA[For Post art critic Blake Gopnik, the Tate Modern's Donald Judd retrospective "is about as good as any art show gets."]]></description><author> Blake Gopnik</author></item><item><title><![CDATA[In London, Paging All Bibliophiles]]></title><link>http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A42282-2004Jan23.html?nav=rss_travel/archive/abroad/europe/greatbritain/london</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A42282-2004Jan23.html?nav=rss_travel/archive/abroad/europe/greatbritain/london</guid><pubDate>Thu, 31 Mar 2005 20:20:33 GMT</pubDate><description><![CDATA[Reading and the collection of books approach obsession here, and to find the heart of this world, walk along Charing Cross Road and enter a quiet alley flanked by a cafe and the top-hat-and-bowler-strewn display window of Lipman & Sons Ltd.]]></description><author> Ambrose Clancy</author></item><item><title><![CDATA[SHERLOCK HOLMES 101]]></title><link>http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A3988-2004Jan9.html?nav=rss_travel/archive/abroad/europe/greatbritain/london</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A3988-2004Jan9.html?nav=rss_travel/archive/abroad/europe/greatbritain/london</guid><pubDate>Thu, 31 Mar 2005 20:20:33 GMT</pubDate><description><![CDATA[<br>   WHAT:  Tracing the Victorian London of Sherlock Holmes; his colleague and biographer, Dr. John H. Watson; and his creator, Sir Arthur Conan Doyle.]]></description><author></author></item><item><title><![CDATA[What's Up? Docks.]]></title><link>http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A32413-2003Dec26.html?nav=rss_travel/archive/abroad/europe/greatbritain/london</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A32413-2003Dec26.html?nav=rss_travel/archive/abroad/europe/greatbritain/london</guid><pubDate>Thu, 31 Mar 2005 20:20:33 GMT</pubDate><description><![CDATA[She had no intention of visiting London's historic Docklands area. Then her original plans went awry.]]></description><author> Cindy Loose</author></item><item><title><![CDATA[A Tip of the Hat to the Queen]]></title><link>http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A31336-2003Sep5.html?nav=rss_travel/archive/abroad/europe/greatbritain/london</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A31336-2003Sep5.html?nav=rss_travel/archive/abroad/europe/greatbritain/london</guid><pubDate>Thu, 31 Mar 2005 20:20:33 GMT</pubDate><description><![CDATA[WHAT:  "Hats and Handbags: Accessories From the Royal Wardrobe"]]></description><author></author></item><item><title><![CDATA[London Show Is a Real Pain]]></title><link>http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A46562-2003Jul25.html?nav=rss_travel/archive/abroad/europe/greatbritain/london</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A46562-2003Jul25.html?nav=rss_travel/archive/abroad/europe/greatbritain/london</guid><pubDate>Thu, 31 Mar 2005 20:20:33 GMT</pubDate><description><![CDATA[<br> Torture is big business in London. Madame Tussaud's Chamber of H orrors attracts more than 2 million visitors each year. The London Dungeon in Southwark re-creates grim episodes in the city's history using state-of-the-art special effects. Nearby, the Clink Street Prison Museum showcases a torture chair and foot crusher, and a Monty Python-esque soundtrack of screams and groans greets you at the door. Now the Tower of London joins the crowd, with a new permanent exhibit, "Torture at the Tower," which opened this spring .]]></description><author></author></item><item><title><![CDATA[London Hotels: Eat 'Em Up]]></title><link>http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A5706-2003May2.html?nav=rss_travel/archive/abroad/europe/greatbritain/london</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A5706-2003May2.html?nav=rss_travel/archive/abroad/europe/greatbritain/london</guid><pubDate>Thu, 31 Mar 2005 20:20:33 GMT</pubDate><description><![CDATA[It isn't too many years ago that, if faced with the choice between a hotel restaurant and what Max Bialystock in "The Producers" calls "El Fresco's" (a hot dog cart), the wise diner might well have opted for the latter. There were always shining exceptions, but a useful rule of thumb was: Keep away from restaurants in hotels unless you want tired food served by tired waiters in tired (though usually cushy) surroundings.]]></description><author></author></item><item><title><![CDATA[ART DECO 101]]></title><link>http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A51756-2003Apr18.html?nav=rss_travel/archive/abroad/europe/greatbritain/london</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A51756-2003Apr18.html?nav=rss_travel/archive/abroad/europe/greatbritain/london</guid><pubDate>Thu, 31 Mar 2005 20:20:33 GMT</pubDate><description><![CDATA[WHAT:  "Art Deco 1910-1939," billed as the most comprehensive exhibit ever dedicated to  the sleek, linear, futuristic design movement.]]></description><author></author></item><item><title><![CDATA[LONDON]]></title><link>http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A25997-2003Mar14.html?nav=rss_travel/archive/abroad/europe/greatbritain/london</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A25997-2003Mar14.html?nav=rss_travel/archive/abroad/europe/greatbritain/london</guid><pubDate>Thu, 31 Mar 2005 20:20:33 GMT</pubDate><description><![CDATA[London has a centrifugal effect: Bus routes, Tube lines and roads seem to conspire to draw you into the center toward the famous museums, Houses of Parliament, the river, churches, parks, grand arcades and theaters. You can stay occupied in the city for days without a thought of leaving town. Yet within a few hours of the capital, there are cathedrals, castles, medieval university towns, Roman ruins, Neolithic monuments, great country mansions, beautiful countryside and much more to give you a taste of England's complex, layered history.]]></description><author> Tamsin Todd</author></item><item><title><![CDATA[$8 Daily Fee Aims to Ease London's Traffic Jams]]></title><link>http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A18356-2003Feb16.html?nav=rss_travel/archive/abroad/europe/greatbritain/london</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A18356-2003Feb16.html?nav=rss_travel/archive/abroad/europe/greatbritain/london</guid><pubDate>Thu, 31 Mar 2005 20:20:33 GMT</pubDate><description><![CDATA[The British capital is launching a revolutionary &#150; and controversial &#150; program to deal with congestion.]]></description><author> Glenn Frankel</author></item><item><title><![CDATA[In London, Dinner and Drama]]></title><link>http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A7079-2003Jan17.html?nav=rss_travel/archive/abroad/europe/greatbritain/london</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A7079-2003Jan17.html?nav=rss_travel/archive/abroad/europe/greatbritain/london</guid><pubDate>Thu, 31 Mar 2005 20:20:33 GMT</pubDate><description><![CDATA[London, once a culinary wilderness, is now  hailed by many as one of the restaurant capitals of the world. Only Paris has more Michelin-starred restaurants.]]></description><author> Sharon Watson</author></item><item><title><![CDATA[10 London Hotels to Call Home]]></title><link>http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A47040-2002Oct18.html?nav=rss_travel/archive/abroad/europe/greatbritain/london</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A47040-2002Oct18.html?nav=rss_travel/archive/abroad/europe/greatbritain/london</guid><pubDate>Thu, 31 Mar 2005 20:20:33 GMT</pubDate><description><![CDATA[A clean, well-lighted room is hard enough to find in London, let alone one with a private bathroom in a central location that costs less than a transatlantic flight for one night's stay. While there are plenty of hotels to choose from, it's all too easy to find yourself booked into a bed-and-breakfast with the bathroom five floors away, or at an overpriced, soulless chain hotel. Still, with some research and advance booking, it's possible to find good quality, inexpensive yet charming accommodations in central London.]]></description><author> Tamsin Todd</author></item></channel></rss>