Our general impression of London By Melanie Tewes and Sylvia Ulm London, as everybody knows, is a very big and » living« city. People who would like to know London for the first time do not leave out out the famous sights: The Tower of London, Westminster Abbey, Piccadilly Circus etc. Already on the first visit tourists soon recognize the different atmosphere of the single town quarters and the great differences of lower class, upper middle class and upper class. In many quarters you can see the great variety of expensive and modern shop like Kensington (Harrods) and Oxford Street. London, the big metropolitan city, lives of tourism. Therefore it is very useful to have a good-working underground system which makes it possible to move from one part to another very fast. One central place for London’s great night life is Piccadilly Circus with its many shops, pubs, discos, cinemas and street artists who portrait tourists or who sell little souvenirs. Although we were there for only five days we were able to recognize some of the main aspects in the behaviour of the British. Going by bus is a wonderful experience for every German tourist. People have to wait in a queue at the bus stop. Tourists who are not used to this system will be very surprised. Britons will react a little bit angry seeing people who do not wait in the queue but try to jump the queue. Another conspicuous element of London’s society is the great difference of its citizens. On the streets there are many people who wear extraordinary and unusual clothes. Usually teenagers and adults up to 25. Normally, people would have comments on this, but in London, one of the greatest melting-pots in Europe, nobody cares about it because there are too many of them. It is taken as something not mentionable because it belongs to London’s street life.

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