- Pollock`s Toy Museum - Its collections include a fine example of the Victorian paper theatres popularized by Benjamin Pollock, who sold them under a slogan "a penny plain, twopence coloured". The other exhibits include vintage teddy bears, puppets, Red Army soldiers, wax dolls and many other items. more

- St Pancras Station - This London train station has to be one of the most impressive and best looking stations in Europe. This masterpiece of neoGothic architecture has languished as underused British Rail offices since 1935.

- Selfridge`s - Another London shop worth your visit if not to buy then just to glaze upon its window arrangements is Selfridge`s. The store was opened in 1909 by Chicago millionaire Gordon Selfridge, who flaunted its 130 departments under the slogan, "Why not spend a day at Selfridge`s?", but was later pensioned off after running into trouble with the Inland Revenue. Located - Junction Orchard Street and Oxford Street. more

- Sicillian Avenue - Created in 1910 this Continental promenade is sliced diagonally across the former slums on the corner of Bloomsbury Way and Southampton Row, Holborn. It houses a couple of cafes and one of the city`s largest secondhand bookshops. Go there for a nice and pleasant Mediterranean feeling.

- Sir John Soane`s Museum - Soane a bricklayer`s son who rose to be architect of the Bank of England, gradually bought up three adjoining Georgian properties, altering them to serve not only as a home and office, but also as a place to store his collection of art and antiquities. His home remains the best example of what he dubbed his `poetry of architecture`, using mirrors, domes and skylights to create wonderful spatial ambiguities. Located - North side of the Lincoln`s Inn Fields, Holborn. Telephone No. 0207 405 2107. more