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Travel Bloggers Share: Ten-Hour Layover in London

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Last September I was on a ten-hour layover in London en route from Kuala Lumpur to Lisbon. You may ask, why didn’t I choose to stay longer in London at least for two days or so? Well, I do love London and I miss it very much. I haven’t seen many of the sights except for Buckingham Palace, Westminster Abbey, Tower of London and the London Eye, and I would love to explore more of the city. But I was travelling on a tight budget last year and since a close friend in Lisbon had invited me to visit her,

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Beneath the Streets of Westminster – The Churchill War Rooms

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Who knew that beneath the streets of Westminster in London lies a secret underground bunker that operated as headquarters for the British Government during Second World War? That’s right, it’s the Churchill War Rooms hidden underground where Winston Churchill and his inner circle directed the Second World War from 1938 until 1945 when the war ended. While I remember reading about the ‘Blitz’ in the early 1940s, I wasn’t aware about the Churchill War Rooms until I read a review about the museum a few years ago. I was intrigued by the story that I promised myself to visit this

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