Opinion | I spent a week in London and found it's the perfect time to vacation. By jbarro.
) and another to Hampton Court Palace, the Tudor-Georgian home to Henry VIII, Elizabeth I, and William and Mary. We saw Twelfth Night at the Globe theater and Noel Coward's Blithe Spirit on the West End. We shopped at Harrods and Liberty and Fortnum & Mason. We took afternoon tea at Brown's Hotel and had dinner at Hutong on the 33rd floor of The Shard, the tallest building in Europe.
In the Cotswolds, we went to villages like Broadway and Bourton-on-the-Water that guidebooks warn will be overrun with tour bus visitors . Other touristy towns, like Chipping Campden, were positively quiet.The Tower of London, usually a total mob scene, was reduced to regular levels of busy. We had to wait about five minutes to get in to see the crown jewels, and it was a bit of a crush once inside — but in normal times, the wait to get in is often half an hour.
But when we strolled up to the palace, three minutes before 11 am, the tourist crowd was only one-person deep at the sides of the forecourt. We could see well. And by about 11:15, the people in front of us got bored and moved on, and so we had a front-row view of the main ceremony. Still, with advance planning, you can get into many places you want. I had especially good luck looking for reservations shortly before the cancellation deadline., a delightful and buzzy"English-Mexican fusion" restaurant that serves Mexican cuisine made with local ingredients, meaning no citrus and no avocado. The meal culminated with delicious pork cheek and chicharron carnitas with gooseberry salsa and house-made tortillas.
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