London

This might seem an odd thing to review but given that I've never really "done" London properly until recently, I thought I'd give my thoughts as an middle-aged visitor.

Over the past twenty years I've been back and forward to London many times but always in the same way: fly to London, arrive ariport (Heathrow, Gatwick, Stanstead), tube to event, attend event, tube back, fly home. So I never got to see the place.

We spent a few days there recently and I finally got my bearings. I now know where the financial district is relative to river, where the London Eye is, how the theatre district flows into Picadilly. I have to say I enjoyed every minute.

The tube is a horror but an efficient one. Does anyone ever really get comfortable in the stations which only have lifts after the terrible fires? We took a taxi one night to a restaurant and utterly regretted it due to the amount of time it took.

We did an unusual tour of the place avoiding obvious things like Buckingham Palace but revelling in great architecture everywhere.

London is a city everyone should do once in their lives. But hell I could never live there!