0:00:09.175,0:00:10.024 ABOUT LONDON 0:00:10.024,0:00:14.441 If you want to go to London, maybe for the Olympic Games, don't miss a ride in a traditional bus. 0:00:14.441,0:00:23.707 Should you never have been at the Buckingham Palace and its surrounding, 0:00:23.707,0:00:25.373 you certainly have to do that on your trip. 0:00:25.373,0:00:31.974 If you're lucky, you can assist the changing of the guard which is the process of involving the new guard 0:00:31.974,0:00:38.392 exchange duty with the old guard or just watch 0:00:38.392,0:00:47.106 the Household cavalry with carriages as they pass by. 0:00:47.106,0:00:51.445 If it hand't been for the rain, we wouldn't have needed an umbrella 0:00:51.445,0:01:00.540 If you are interested in Swiss clocks, 0:01:00.540,0:01:01.700 you should go to see them on the Swiss Court. 0:01:01.700,0:01:11.025 Should you have become hungry from the sightseeing, go the the many very good Asien restaurants. 0:01:11.025,0:01:27.740 The famous murder myestery play "The Mousetrap" wouldn't have been going on since 1952 if Agatha Christie had not written it. 0:01:27.740,0:01:31.491 If there were only highways in London, 0:01:31.491,0:01:36.106 it wouldn't be so nice. 0:01:36.106,0:01:42.240 If you want to attend a musical or just listen to music, 0:01:42.240,0:01:46.406 you should go to Covent Garden. 0:01:46.406,0:01:54.390 If there was more space, architects would maybe not build 0:01:54.390,0:01:59.507 the highest skyscraper worldwide in London. 0:01:59.507,0:02:08.174 If the British Museum wasn't so interesting, 0:02:08.174,0:02:10.291 I wouldn't go there anymore. It's not just 0:02:10.291,0:02:13.074 about Egyptian art or culture but it also shows 0:02:13.074,0:02:19.924 the history of art through 100 objects and it's free. 0:02:19.924,0:02:27.606 If England and Lord Nelson hadn't won the Battle of Trafalgar 0:02:27.606,0:02:36.674 in 1805 against France, there would be no Trafalgar Square. 0:02:36.674,0:02:48.041 If Piccadilly Circus was not a famous junction and public space of London, 0:02:48.041,0:02:50.491 with major shopping streets, 0:02:50.491,0:02:54.857 people would not visit it so frequently. 0:02:54.857,0:03:02.707 In Saint Jaime's Park you could relax a little bit, should you have become tired 0:03:02.707,0:03:10.440 and should you feel like going onto the big wheel, just do it! 0:03:10.440,0:03:15.008 If there hand't been a big fire in 1666 0:03:15.008,0:03:21.124 which destroyed about 80'000 homes of the city's inhabitants, 0:03:21.124,0:03:26.724 Charles II's Palace of Whitehall wouldn't have been threatened 0:03:26.724,0:03:35.224 and also if the Tower of London garrison had not used gunpowder to create 0:03:35.224,0:03:38.707 effective firebreaks to stop further spread eastward, 0:03:38.707,9:59:59.000 who knows what would have happened to London.