{"id":495,"date":"2018-10-09T10:46:28","date_gmt":"2018-10-09T10:46:28","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/andrew-may.com\/blog\/?p=495"},"modified":"2018-10-09T10:46:28","modified_gmt":"2018-10-09T10:46:28","slug":"random-encounters-on-the-london-tourist-trail","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/andrew-may.com\/blog\/2018\/10\/random-encounters-on-the-london-tourist-trail\/","title":{"rendered":"Random Encounters on the London Tourist Trail"},"content":{"rendered":"

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Just out \u2013 my second book in collaboration with Paul Jackson, following on from Weird Wessex<\/a> a few years ago. Like its predecessor the new book is \u201ca tourist guide to strange and unusual sights\u201d \u2013 but this time they\u2019re right in the centre of London.<\/p>\n

There\u2019s an Egyptian Goddess in Mayfair and Karl Marx in Soho, a tiny police station in Trafalgar Square and an 18-inch-wide alley in Covent Garden (careful you don\u2019t get stuck!). Alongside the iconic landmarks that the regular guidebooks tell you about, central London has an impressive assortment of quirky and unusual sights, from art installations in the form of human body parts to hundred-year-old advertising signs and a forgotten tube station. This book gives you a guided tour of all these sights and more \u2013 without straying far from the places you were going to see anyway, like Big Ben and Buckingham Palace, the Tower of London and St Paul\u2019s Cathedral, the museums of South Kensington and the entertainment hotspots of the West End.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

Like Weird Wessex<\/em>, Random Encounters on the London Tourist Trail<\/em> is packed with full-colour photographs. With improved paper and print quality, the colours really stand out in this one too. You can get it from Amazon UK<\/a> or any other Amazon store. There\u2019s also a Kindle version (although that won\u2019t give you colour pictures if you use an ordinary monochrome Kindle reader).<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Just out \u2013 my second book in collaboration with Paul Jackson, following on from Weird Wessex a few years ago. Like its predecessor the new book is \u201ca tourist guide to strange and unusual sights\u201d \u2013 but this time they\u2019re right in the centre of London. There\u2019s an Egyptian Goddess in Mayfair and Karl Marx … <\/p>\n

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