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By Val Schroder
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 LONDON - If you're going to London this year to help the Queen celebrate her Diamond Jubilee (60 years on the throne) or to attend the 2012 Summer Olympic Games, you don’t have to bring a lot of cash. In fact, there are plenty of “free” or “inexpensive” things to do in Britain’s vibrant capital. You just need a little guidance. So let me show you the way with this list of “free” museums, cheap places to eat and ways to get around sprawling London without blowing your budget:
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By Marc Atchison
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 BATH, ENGLAND – It’s graduation day and the banks of the River Avon are crowded with caps and gowns and the students wearing them jockey for position as parents and friends snap photographs of the momentous moment. |
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By Marc Atchison
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 LONDON – The lobby of the Lancaster Hotel is always a beehive of activity - a constant buzz of excitement fills the air here. |
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By Marc Atchison
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 LONDON – The Cockney cabbie taking us to the stylish K-West Hotel and Spa tells us the ultra-chic property is the “coolest hotel in London, mate.” |
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By Marc Atchison
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 NEWPORT, WALES – The nose of the tiny golf cart Luke Jennings is piloting dips into the lush Usk Valley and the stage on which the 38th Ryder Cup Matches will be played comes into full view.
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By Marc Atchison
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 CAERLEON, WALES – In a land full of sweet surprises, this tiny village may be the sweetest of them all.
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By Marc Atchison
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 CARDIFF – A small dusting of sugar that had dropped from the Welsh cakes I so exuberantly devoured settles on my black trousers and a young server offers to sweep away the sweet residue with a small brush.
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 KETTLEWELL, ENGLAND - Long before Helen Mirren became the queen of our hearts with her Acadamy Award-winning portrayal of the British monarch in The Queen, she already ruled the silver screen thanks to her many other excellent performances. |
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By Marc Atchison
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 BIBURY, ENGLAND - The trout that only hours earlier had been swimming in the brook gurgling outside the Swan Hotel was now being served at breakfast to guests in the hotel's wood-paneled dining room. While they ate, visitors quietly thumbed through local guidebooks and occasionally made notes as they mapped out their tourist strategy for the day.
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By Marc Atchison
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 WHITBY, ENGLAND - It was midday by the time we arrived in this pretty Yorkshire fishing town nestled by the North Sea. We had worked up a considerable appetite on our drive from historic York, so, we asked a local man where we might find the best fish and chips?
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By Marc Atchison
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 LONDON - Long before you see Borough Market, you smell it. Good smells. Like the kind produced by hot loaves of freshly baked bread left to cool on a rack outside one of the market's 80 stalls. Or sharp ones that come wafting from a cheese shop at the rear of the outdoor food emporium.
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