Here are some interesting places to visit. First the West End. The West End is the name given to the area of central London. It includes Trafalgar Square, the main shopping areas of Oxford Street and Regent Street. Most of London’s big department stores are in these streets and the entertainment centres are in Soho, Piccadilly Circus and Leicester Square.
Trafalgar Square was built early in the last century to commemorate the Battle of Trafalgar. Admiral Lord Nelson's statue stands on top of a column in the middle of Trafalgar Square. At Christmas time, carol singers gather round a huge Christmas tree which is sent to Britain from Norway every year. Behind Nelson's column is the National Gallery. Piccadilly Circus is the centre of night life in the West End. It is usually at the top of everyone's list of things to see in London, because it is so well known. It is actually quite small and most people are rather disappointed when they see it for the first time because they had imagined it would be much bigger. To the north of Piccadilly Circus is Soho, which has been the foreign quarter of London since the 17th century. Now it has restaurants offering food from a variety of different countries, especially Chinese and Italian ones. London is famous for its live theatres, and there are over thirty theatres within a square mile. If you want to know what is on in London, the best place to look is in a newspaper.