The Best Things to See in London

In a list of London's top attractions, would you include Buckingham Palace, St Paul's Cathedral and Westminster Abbey, or maybe the River Thames, and London's Pubs?

Last week, fresh back from Florida, I tried to pick my top Orlando attractions. It wasn't easy and I couldn't reduce it to the Top Ten that I'd originally planned to do – but then I also wanted to include our side trips to the Space Coast and to the Tampa Bay area.

This week it set me thinking – could I choose a Top Ten list of London attractions? That would be even harder, as I lived in London for almost 15 years, and we'd only been in Florida for a month! But I decided this time I would definitely keep it to just ten, and try and come up with a list that everyone should absolutely not miss when on vacation in London, whether you're there on a family holiday, honeymoon, business trip, solo vacation or whatever.

Whether you're 17 or 70, there are certain things in London you really have to see, and then you can add some more depending on your personal preferences, whether nightclubs or theatre visits. And I did come up with my own personal London Top Ten, though because of the space restrictions on Suite101's pages, I had to divide it into two. But that made me realise that half of London's top sights are right on the river, and I'd already chosen the River Thames itself.

So here they are, London's Top Ten Attractions, divided into:

London's Top Five Travel Attractions

London's Top Five River Attractions

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