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June 15th 2015
Published: July 29th 2015
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London wasn't as beautiful as Stockholm, Amsterdam or Paris, but the museums and cultural activities were incredible, as expected. I could have bounced from museums to meals to plays for days on end, and nearly did. The gardens, too, were impressive - although I had to save Kew Gardens for my next trip - and, of course, the historical monuments are a top draw for any visitor. We only had a few sho... Read Full Entry



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Victorian public house interior details
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Victorian public house interior details
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The Theatre Box, Pierre-Auguste Renoir (1874)
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The Luncheon on the Grass, Edouard Manet (1863-68)
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A Bar at the Folies-Bergere, Edouard Manet (1881-82)
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In a Private Dining Room (at the Rat Mort), Henri de Toulouse-Lautrec (1899)
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Self portrait With a Bandaged Ear, Vincent van Gogh (1889)
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Torso (the Idol), Kees van Dongen (1905)
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Female Nude, Amedeo Modigliani (1916)
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Ye Old Cheshire Cheese

There's been a pub here since 1538.
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The vaulted cellars are thought to belong to a 13th-century Carmelite monastery which once occupied the site.
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Charles Dickens was a frequent customer, and Mark Twain, Alfred Tennyson and Sir Arthur Conan Doyle were also supposedly regulars.
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Detail of Portrait of Mary Hill, Lady Killigrew, Anthony van Dyck (1638)
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St-Martin-in-the-Fields, William Logsdail (1888)
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The Health of the Bride, Stanhope Alexander Forbes (1889)
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Detail of Saint Eulalia, JW Waterhouse (1885)
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Portrait of Madame X, John Singer Sargent (1884)
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The Ball on Shipboard, James Tissot (1874)
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The Reading Girl, Theodore Roussel, (1886-87)
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Detail of study for The Courtyard of the Coptic Patriarch's House in Cairo, John Frederick Lewis (1864)



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