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London, home of the Millennium

While some of the Capital's year 2000 celebrations perhaps fell short of what the city deserved, the surprise hit and first of our recommendations is the British Airways London Eye. Affording unprecedented public viewing across the city and the fertile lands beyond, there can be few better vantage points for seeing the undulating topography of sheer history.

For lovers of visual art there are the great collections of the National Gallery and the Tate Modern, while theatre lovers can indulge their passion at Shakespeare's Globe Theatre, a few yards away from the site of the Bard's original and the only place in the world to afford a true feel of his plays in the form and the setting he knew them. Lovers of great books can touch the mind of one of the greatest true novellists and a man who knew the London of our imaginings with a visit to the town house of the great Charles Dickens.

The story of study and the fruits of intellect are revealed at the Natural History Museum, the Science Museum and the Planetarium; while the Imperial War Museum brings together the technology and the human face of warfare. Madame Tussaud's world renowned wax museum puts a very real face on the famous and infamous, past and present.

Away from the pursuit of knowledge and to the pursuit of shopping: from Covent Garden, with its market atmosphere and vibrant culture, to Harrods, with its genteel old world attention to detail, your credit card never had so much fun as during one of our shopping specials in the Capital.

The flowing heart of London is the River Thames. Criss-crossed by bridges, each with a tale to tell, surely one of the most famous spans in the world is presented in the stylish audacity of Tower Bridge. And down the river a little way, through Tilbury, where Elizabeth I rallied her forces against the might of Spain we come to Greenwich: the home of time itself!