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London - it's all about the details. This is one city where it pays to take a close second look. Welcome to London on Skiponover.com, by Jill Browne.
Agatha Christie was a prolific writer whose mystery stories are still popular on TV decades after her death. Her play The Mousetrap has broken records for longest-running stage play.

22 Cresswell Place, SW10
Agathie Christie Lived Here


Miss Christie lived in a variety of houses. This one is in South Kensington, at 22 Cresswell Place and is marked with a Blue Plaque. It appears to be privately owned and probably occupied by a family who don't want to hear another word about Hercule Poirot, the famous Belgian detective created by Dame Agatha.

The house looks like a place where Christie's other well-known puzzle solver, Miss Marple, would have felt right at home. Lace curtains, one imagines doilies and an air of refinement within. We'll never know.

Thanks to rahuldlucca for sharing this picture on Flickr under a CC Attribution 2.0 Generic license.
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River Thames and Houses of Parliament

September 23rd 2008 03:29
True confessions, I have not ridden the giant Ferris Wheel - ski gondola hybrid called the London Eye. I love aerial views, but I have this really bad fear of falling off the edges of things, so ... not number one on my list of tourist attractions.

"Everyone" raves about it, though


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Sir Richard & Lady Burton's Stone Tent

September 21st 2008 21:55
Victorian explorer Sir Richard Burton (the role model for Lawrence of Arabia) and his widow are buried in a mausoleum of their own. It's a stone tent, in the Mortlake churchyard, an easy walk from the British Rail station at Mortlake.

Through a window, visitors can see inside


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