STORY "London" - Chapter Three

Visiting The City

A quick and easy way to get to different palces in the city is to use an Underground train. The trains run all day and most of the night. Buy your ticket before you get on the train. It’s better not to make your journey between eight o’clock and o’clock in the morning, or foru o’clock and six o’clock in the evening.

These are called the “rush” hours. Thousands of people are going to work or coming home again then, and it is difficult to move or to find a place to sit on the train.

You can see much more of London from one of its famous red buses. Some special visitors buses take you to many of the interesting palces in the city on one journey. It takes about one and a half hours, but you can break your journey and get off (and on again) at the different places you want to visit.

London taxis are called “black cabd”. Most of them are black, but some are not. You can stop one if it has a “For Hire” sign on it. The drives are usually friendly and helpful.

Why not take a boat trip a long the River Thames? Boats leave Estminster Pier and Charing Cross Pier, and they go to Tower Pier and Greenwich.

Between April and October, you can take a longer boat trip to Hampton Court (about four hours) _a beautiful palace in a big park.

_to be continued