Rolling In The Grass… In London?

February 6th, 2010 admin

London is well known for being a place of culture, museums, pubs and a huge variety of people and communities. But what people don’t realize before they arrive in the city is how huge it is in reality. The roads and buildings stretch for miles and miles…even at the top of the British Airway’s London Eye on the side of the Thames , it is possible to see the end of the London City District, but the municipality of London continues to stretch…


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