For the London traveler looking for variety, the West End is the place to be. Piccadilly Circus is next door, where antique book shops mix with the latest restaurants, and Covent Garden is not far. And, then, of course, there’s the world-renowned theater – the rival (some would say tutor) of Broadway. Soho is a […]

At the junction of Regent Street and Shaftesbury Avenue lies a trapezoidal area near London’s West End known to the world as Piccadilly Circus. It’s an odd name since there’s no circus there, but even odder is that ‘circus’ usually denotes a roundish city area where several streets meet in a circle. After the Roman […]