An anxious traveller's guide to visiting London
A Londoner's guide to how to enjoy a (more) relaxing trip to London
Posted by: Josh, 17 August 2026
London is big, it’s sometimes loud, but it doesn’t have to be stressful.
This guide is specifically made for you if you are a would-be London visitor but are generally anxious about travelling, or if you have one or two specific concerns stopping you visiting London.
It covers the best times to visit some of London’s biggest attractions, some of our favourite places that don’t attract the biggest crowds, advice for getting around the city, and areas that we’d recommend staying in.
I’m sometimes overwhelmed by choice when planning a trip so, with Liz’s help, I’ve tried to help create some shortlists for where to stay and where to eat for you rather than giving you more suggestions than necessary. Our tips are based on more than two decades’ combined experience living in London. While there’s not enough hours in a lifetime to learn everything there is to know about this city, we’ve got a pretty good idea of the best ways to spend time here.
If you’re not an anxious traveller, please keep checking our London travel guides page for more detailed guides to London – including some of our favourite places, longer guides on where to find the best food and drink at different budgets, and tips on all the things you need to know before visiting.
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The big attractions
The purpose of Anxious and Travelling is to help people see parts of the world they wouldn’t think to visit, or don’t feel able to visit without a helping hand. This is a short list of some of London’s biggest attractions and how you can make visiting them a bit less stressful.
City centre shopping
If you want to do some shopping therapy in London, the best place for it is the area around Oxford Circus. It might be even nicer, once large sections of it are fully closed off to road traffic later this year.
All along Regent Street, Oxford Street, Carnaby Street and their surrounding roads are popular high-street brands, designer shops, and high-end department stores like Liberty of London and Selfridges. Sadly, this isn’t a well-kept secret and the streets are always quite busy.
At peak times – from around 8am to 9.30am and from 4.30pm to 6.30pm – Oxford Circus tube station is often temporarily closed due to overcrowding. If you want a more relaxed shopping experience, visit between these times.
If you only want to spend a couple of hours indulging in retail therapy before escaping to a greener, more open space, it’s easier than you might think. Take the tube to Piccadilly Circus and walk up Regent’s Street past the many designer shops to Oxford Circus, with a very slight detour to Liberty of London on your way. Turn left at Oxford Circus and follow Oxford Street all the way to Hyde Park, where you can relax, take a long walk around the Serpentine, or just sit and admire the local parakeets.
If you want to tick off another London shopping landmark after your walk, leave the park from the other side to where you entered and you’ll be just a few minutes’ walk away from Harrods – it’s not many Londoners’ favourite place but it’s worth a quick look around as a tourist, if you’re already in the area.
Museums and art galleries
London has a huge number of art galleries and museums, most of which cost nothing to enter. This makes them very popular attractions, particularly for families with children.
While the biggest and best-known museums – the British Museum, the Natural History Museum and the National Gallery, to name a few – are somewhat busy at all times, you can avoid the worst of the crowds by making sure to visit on a weekday and by planning your trip to avoid school holidays.
London Council websites (like this one) list school term time dates for the next two years, so you can book to avoid the half-term, Christmas and Easter breaks if avoiding crowds is important to you.
Of course, you don’t have to visit the most visited museums to get your history fix. Liz recently spent a lovely morning with a friend at the Victoria and Albert Museum in South Kensington admiring the art, ceramics and other creative works on display there; she was able to walk straight in, while people nearby queued out of the door of the National History Museum waiting to get in. With 3.3 million visitors a year, it’s a well-loved and popular attraction… but still only has half as many visitors as the British Museum.
I’d also recommend a day trip to Greenwich. There are two free museums, Queen’s House and the Royal Maritime Museum, but you will need to buy tickets for the two biggest attractions, the Royal Observatory and the 19th-century sailing boat the Cutty Sark. It’s free to wander through Greenwich Park, which has excellent views back over London from the top of the hill on which the observatory is located.
Houses of Parliament
I used to work in Westminster, so trust me when I tell you that the Houses of Parliament are a lot less impressive on the inside than they are on the outside.
While I won’t say that you definitely shouldn’t take a tour – I haven’t been willing to part with enough money to try for myself – I will tell you that you can see inside the House of Commons or the House of Lords without spending any money at all.
Parliament usually sits from Monday to Thursday, and you can queue to observe debates from the public gallery. Please read this website carefully for all the details and to avoid queuing for one of the parliamentary sessions that is only open to UK residents.
While in Westminster, you might also want to visit Westminster Abbey. Book tickets in advance if you wish to visit, as tickets sometimes sell out and you might face a long queue at the on-site ticket office even if there are slots available. If you’re spending a long time in London and have seen similar styles of churches elsewhere, I’d be tempted to save my £27 to visit St Paul’s Cathedral – which has a unique British baroque style – at another time instead.
If you have less time and need to do as much in a day as possible, it might be worthwhile. It is a very beautiful building.
Buckingham Palace
If you're not interested in the Royal Family, you don't need to visit Buckingham Palace. You can't see much from the outside and it's one of the less pretty royal residences in the UK. But if you feel it would be a shame to come all the way to London and not see it, here's how to do it.
Green Park station, the closest tube stop to Buckingham Palace, is on the Jubilee and Victoria lines. These are both busy commuter lines, so you might want to plan your photo op outside the palace for outside peak travel times. From Green Park, it's a very short walk to the front of the palace.
A nicer way to visit would be to travel to St James’ Park tube station (you can walk here easily from the Houses of Parliament and Westminster Abbey too) and walk past the Ministry of Justice building – an awful mess of concrete or a fine example of British brutalist architecture, depending on your point of view – and into St James’ Park. Take the scenic route to your destination, heading to your right in the direction of Horse Guards Parade (away from the palace) to give yourself the best chance of seeing the pelicans that live in the lake at the park.
From there, walk down the Mall – the wide road that leads towards the palace and the endpoint for the annual London Marathon – and arrive in front of the palace gates to take your pictures. If you can time your visit so you arrive at 11am on a Monday, Wednesday, or Friday, you’ll be able to watch the ceremonial changing of the guard, where troops of uniformed beefeaters march up and down the Mall playing music and waving flags about. It's deeply silly behaviour but it's admittedly kind of fun too.
There are also Captain’s inspections on Tuesdays, Thursdays, and Saturdays, as well as a parade on Sundays, all of which involve performances from the marching bands. The times for those ceremonies sometimes change, so check online for the latest information.
Borough Market
A visit to Borough Market is a must for foodies. We’d recommend visiting between Tuesday and Friday, as the market is closed on Mondays and seriously crowded on Saturdays and Sundays. On a weekday, you’ll find nearly all of the same stalls and restaurants open as you would on a weekend. You'll also have a much more relaxing time visiting them.
If you’re struggling to make a decision about where to eat, our favourite restaurants in and around the market are the Sri Lankan restaurant Rambutan, Kolae for a different take on Thai food than you’ll find in most other parts of London, Liz enjoys Brindisa for tapas (I wasn't that impressed by the vegetarian options), and we both love Plaza Khao Gaeng for more casual Thai food at a reasonable price. You can find good food at the market stalls without queuing up for the most popular places but Liz and I prefer the comfort of sitting down at the restaurants next to the market to enjoy watching the world go by as we eat.
If you’re on more of a budget, you might want to pick up your favourite type of bread at any one of the many bakery stalls around the market before heading outside to Neal’s Yard Dairy, possibly London’s best cheese shop. Buy your sandwich fillings here (if you’re vegetarian, make sure to ask staff for advice on which cheeses are okay), then walk a short distance to have a picnic outside the Tate Modern art gallery next to the River Thames.
If you’re looking for budget restaurants, there are some reliable restaurant chains with outlets a short walk away from the market. Pizza Pilgrims and Honest Burgers both serve decent, if slightly greasy, food at a good price. Spizza is also a very good option for a cheap pizza, but they don’t have indoor seating.
For coffee lovers, Monmouth Coffee serves the best drinks but it is always busy – to the point you might not find a seat. Crol and Co, around five minutes’ walk away, serves good coffee too and is often much quieter on a daytime, while Scenery (15 minutes’ walk from Borough Market) is one of our favourite spots to get a simple, cheap lunch and coffee in a relaxing atmosphere.
If the crowds around the market get a bit much, head towards Southwark Cathedral. It’s usually a bit less busy there and there are some places to sit down as well as a small café if you need to catch your breath before you continue.
Best areas to stay in London
Deciding where to stay in a city as big as London is difficult. To make planning your holiday a bit less stressful, we’ve tried to provide you a small number of very specific locations to pick from – nice, convenient places that we’d happily recommend to friends visiting London. This isn’t the complete list of best places to stay in London, but it might save you time making a shortlist.
Lower Marsh
Why: Central, convenient, characterful
Lower Marsh is a street just next to Waterloo station, with several good cafes, a lunchtime food market from Monday to Friday, good value restaurants, and a very small park at one end of it.
If you stay here, you’ll be just around the corner from one of London’s biggest overground and underground stations, making it easy to travel to just about anywhere you might want to visit in London. Several great places are within 25 minutes or less walking distance: the foodie paradise of Borough Market; the palace of Westminster; the Tate Modern art gallery; Shakespeare’s Globe; Tower Bridge; Somerset House (a grand Georgian building home to creative exhibitions and some brilliant restaurants)… the list could go on and on.
Though Lower Marsh is a small street, there are still places to stay for people on all budgets, with two four-star hotels, a three-star apartment hotel above a nice wine bar, and even a two-star hostel above a pub.
Liz and I love this street. If you decide to stay here and happen to spot us enjoying our favourite coffee outside Café Pedlar, come say hey.
Canary Wharf
Why: Clean, spacious, unobjectionable
Canary Wharf isn’t exciting, unless your interests are characterless glass buildings and big finance. But sometimes, you don’t want your hotel to be in the most touristy areas of a city.
What Canary Wharf offers is convenience. You can get there easily from both London Gatwick and London Heathrow airports. From Heathrow, take the Elizabeth line all the way to Canary Wharf. From Gatwick, it’s a train to London Bridge followed by three stops on the Jubilee line on the Underground.
The Jubilee line is a good line to pick for getting around London, as it takes you directly to several destinations – for just a few examples: Green Park for Buckingham Palace, Bond Street for city centre shopping, Westminster to see the Houses of Parliament – and it links you to London Bridge and Waterloo stations if you want to take a train to places outside London.
Canary Wharf is also full of nice, if often slightly overpriced restaurants. Dishoom will be a favourite for many tourists (as well as Liz and I, for their breakfast), but there are loads of other good options too: Kricket serves curries that are at least a match for Dishoom, while Liz enjoyed an Eastern Mediterranean lunch at Brother Marcus recently.
If you’re looking for something British to do on an evening, make a reservation at Fairgame where you can try some traditional fairground games over cocktails and street food. I warn you, the games are very British.
If there are downsides to staying in Canary Wharf, they would be the lack of distinct character and the possibility that you might pay slightly elevated prices for a room in a chain hotel. You would be located right in London’s money-making heart, so costs here might be higher than you’d find elsewhere.
Richmond
Why: Green, pleasant, Ted Lasso
If you want to stay within the Greater London area, but in a place that feels a bit separated from big city life, then Richmond is a great place to stay.
Richmond is a green, leafy, and upmarket London Borough. You’ll have no trouble finding nice cafés and traditional pubs to relax in after a day exploring the city. It’s on the District London underground line, which takes you directly to places including Westminster, Kensington (where several big museums are located) and Tower Hill (for the Tower of London and Tower Bridge).
You’ll also have two of our favourite green spaces in London within easy reach. Richmond Park is famous for its wild deer population, while Kew Gardens compares favourably to any other garden I’ve visited on my travels. Both are great places to while away a relaxing afternoon if you need a more peaceful day to unwind during your trip.
If you decide Richmond is the place for you, make sure to book well in advance. While there are hotels and holiday rentals in the area for people of all budgets, they can sell out quickly. Even before Ted Lasso and his merry band of football cowboys rolled into town (fine, you caught me, I’m the only person who hasn’t watched it), Richmond was a desirable place to stay.
Relaxing places to visit around London
Kew Gardens
One of the world’s best botanical gardens, with rare plants of all kinds spread out over 326 acres of land. Highlights for me and Liz are the tropical pavilion, the water lily house (reopening in 2027 after renovations), and the Princess of Wales Conservatory which houses the famous Titan Arum, also known as the corpse flower for its overpowering rotten smell when its flower opens for just two days - usually only once every few years. If you come in the springtime, the cherry blossoms are also lovely.
There are a couple of cafés and a restaurant on site, so if you’re interested in plants or just want to spend time chilling out on the lawns it’s easy to spend a full day out here. You can also bring in your own food and drink to have a picnic if you’re on more of a budget.
You can buy tickets either through the Kew Gardens website or through Viator - it will cost you the same either way. Be aware that a standard entry ticket will not get you access to any special events like the Christmas lights displays - you need a special ticket to access those.
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Hampton Court Palace
The former home of King Henry VIII, Hampton Court Palace is a place to learn about England’s history in a spectacular 16th century complex of traditional Tudor buildings and immaculately maintained grounds.
After exploring the palace, take some time to stroll through Home Park (also known as Hampton Court Park). You can walk the length of the long water, spotting herons, swans and other small waterfowl as you go. Home Park is also one of the best places in London for spotting deer with around 300 animals, all directly descended from the herds introduced by Henry VIII, living within its confines.
You can find helpful directions on how to get to Hampton Court Palace online, along with up-to-date information on ticket prices. We spent most of an afternoon at the Palace and in its grounds; if you’re very interested in the history of English royalty, or if you’ve never been to an old palace before, I think you could spend longer there. The usual opening hours are 10am-5.30pm.
Castle Hill Farm
Just under an hour’s train ride from Blackfriars station, or Elephant and Castle station, is Shoreham, a pretty village in the county of Kent (not to be confused with the coastal town of Shoreham-by-sea).
From Shoreham station, you can walk 30 minutes through the English countryside, surrounded by fields, hills and wildflower meadows, to Castle Hill lavender farm. In the summer months, the lavender plants flower in fragrant, mellow purple blooms.
Take some pictures, treat yourself to whichever lavender-flavoured foods and drink most take your fancy (or, like me, stick to the organic lemonade), then wander slowly through the picturesque village streets back towards the station.
If you’d like to make a longer day of it, you can also visit the Mount Vineyard to try some English wine before heading back to London or visit one of the local pubs for a typical slice of English life.
Box Hill
Box Hill, as the name suggests, is a smallish hill with nice views of the Surrey countryside. Sport fans with good memories may recall it as a key feature of the London 2012 Olympics cycling road race event.
To get to the start of the walking trails, take a 45-minute train journey from London Waterloo to the quaintly named Box Hill and Westhumble station. From there, it’s around 15 minutes’ walk to the bottom of the hill. Most people will follow a route starting at the Stepping Stones across the river, but all the main routes are marked clearly on your maps app of choice.
Read our short guide to visiting Box Hill if you want to find out more about how to get there and how it compares to other walks around London.
Goring Gap
Saving my favourite of these countryside breaks for the last, the Goring Gap is a passage carved between the Berkshire Downs and Chiltern Hills, not far from the town of Reading. You can get to Goring and Streatley station, where most people start their walks, by train from London Paddington station.
The most popular walk is the Goring to Pangbourne trail, which takes about two hours if you aren’t stopping constantly to take pictures. As ever on these walks through rural English villages, you’ll find plenty of pubs to stop in for a drink and a traditional roast lunch.
It’s hard to pick a highlight of the walk; what makes the Goring Gap so lovely is the constantly changing but always pleasant views of hillside and the River Thames alongside you. Visit the National Trails website to find walking directions before setting off.
Other places to visit
We’ll post guides to these next few places in the coming months, but other places worth visiting outside of London including Cambridge (if you want to see a historic university town), Brighton (a coastal town with a reputation for inclusivity) and Seven Sisters (for a longer, more strenuous cliff-top hike).
Places to eat in London
London is one of the world’s great food cities. While British food doesn’t have a great reputation (and quite fairly so) London is home to restaurants serving delicious food from all around the world.
That makes picking where to eat very difficult, even for people like me and Liz who have lived here for a long, long time.
Here, we’re going to guess a few types of food that you might want to try while in London. We’ve picked one place for each where we think travellers on most budgets would be happy to eat. We've also chosen locations that are in London Underground Zones 1 and 2, the most central areas of London, to avoid any difficult public transport journeys.
For a great curry: Kricket, lunchtime thali menu
Britain can't claim to have invented curry, since its roots date back 4,000 years to part of what is now India. But it is strongly associated with British food culture and I'm sure it's high on many visitors' lists of foods to try in London.
For £20, Kricket (with five locations across London) will serve you a lunchtime thali comprised of a squash (vegetable) or chicken curry, a flavourful Tadka Dal, a samosa, pappadums, rice, and some small side dishes. The food is delicious and not too spicy, and it’s often much easier to find a seat than at the slightly more famous Dishoom.
For great fish and chips: Brockley's Rock
This is a challenging pick for several reasons - London doesn’t have many great chippies, fish and chips aren’t to everyone’s tastes and, perhaps most relevantly, this guide has been written by a vegetarian.
However.
There are one or two good fish and chip shops. Just barely inside Zone 2 is Brockley’s Rock, which serves good thick-cut chips without too much grease and crisply battered fish and – crucially for this writer – vegan fish alternatives. The curry sauce is pretty decent too, to an English palate. Liz has made a pilgrimage to this citadel of fried food with me and reassures me that the fish - the real stuff, not the vegan one - is pretty good too.
If you can’t travel as far as Brockley, I would either order a takeaway from Brockley Rock on Deliveroo or simply take my chances using Google reviews to pick a passable alternative in a more central location. There’s unlikely to be too much difference from one shop to another, although be warned that the quality of food doesn’t always match the price that some touristy central London fish and chip shops charge.
If you can travel even further than Brockley, many of the towns along the coast would be a better place to get fresh, traditional, affordable fish and chips than London. If you have time, consider taking a day trip to Brighton, Margate, or Whitstable – which is also famous for its fresh oysters).
For a roast Sunday lunch (pub lunch): Hawksmoor
Another tricky one. Many pubs in London are part of chains, serving exactly the same slightly underwhelming food at prices you’d probably prefer not to pay. You won’t get a bad meal, necessarily, but you might come away a bit disappointed.
For a really good pub lunch, you’ll have to pay a lot for it. The Devonshire, in Soho, is one of the most well-regarded places if money isn’t a concern for you.
For a Sunday roast specifically, Liz has helpfully come up with a good recommendation. Hawksmoor is a Michelin Guide-recommended steakhouse, rather than a pub, but one which is also well-known for serving traditional English Sunday lunches. They have several branches across the city, which should mean you don’t have to travel too far to find your nearest one. A classic roast beef with all the trimmings will set you back £29.50, and they also have a vegetarian Wellington roast for £28. The roasted garlic is a particular highlight of a Hawksmoor Sunday roast in London.
For afternoon tea: The Langham Hotel
I'm cheating a little bit on the rules I set out before, as this is a budget-busting recommendation. I can justify it, if you'll let me.
The best afternoon tea I’ve had in London was at the Langham Hotel on Regent Street. Prices start at £85 per person. At that price, you should expect luxury treatment and, fortunately, that's what you get. The Langham claims to be the first hotel to have served afternoon tea when it opened in 1865. Today, you'll still be served light and fluffy scones, tea, coffee, cakes and sandwiches in the opulent Palm Court just beyond the hotel lobby.
While it's a huge amount of money to spend on cakes, sandwiches and teas, it's not possible to get a proper, good quality afternoon tea service in London without paying for the privilege. As a visitor to the UK looking to enjoy an afternoon tea, the food will be nice but the real joy is going to be in the ceremony. With that in mind, and if you can spare the money, taking afternoon tea in a grand Victorian hotel with a historic connection to the afternoon tea experience is a bit easier to justify.
If you want a more sensibly priced but still authentic afternoon tea, the Wolseley isn’t a bad bet at £45 per person.
For those not as interested in the ceremony as they are in the food and the drink, the best bet of all is to find a cute café serving scones with clotted cream and jam and create your own afternoon tea experience. It won’t be the same experience as tea in a fancy hotel or tearoom, but for much less money you can quite easily try all the best parts of an afternoon tea – a good scone, a couple of cakes and whatever drink you most want to have with them. All you’d be missing out on are a few small, frequently disappointing sandwiches, and some waiting staff in old-fashioned outfits.
Tips for using public transport in London
This section won’t cover everything you need to know about getting around London – you can read our comprehensive guide to that here – but it will cover the main points that a traveller with anxiety needs to know.
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You don’t need to worry about buying an Oyster card to travel on London buses, the London Underground network, and on National Rail (regular trains) services in London. You can simply tap in and out at ticket barriers with your contactless credit or debit card and benefit from the same daily fare caps as every other traveller. Apple Pay also works. The only real reason to buy an Oyster card is if your bank card charges a fee for transactions in a foreign currency, or if you're particularly concerned about taking your bank cards out in public.
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London Underground trains get very busy during peak work travel hours, generally between 8am-9am and between 4.30pm-6.30pm. You may not get a seat and you may find that standing room is very cramped. If the departure board shows that two more trains will arrive within the next two to three minutes, you’ll typically find you can get a bit more space by waiting for the next service. You will also usually find more space in the carriages at each end of the train than in those in the middle of the train.
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The London Underground network also gets very hot in summer. The warmest lines include the Central, Victoria and Northern Lines. For those of you taking common anti-anxiety or anti-depressant medications like sertraline, citalopram or fluoxetine, which can affect your ability to regulate your temperature, make sure to bring water with you if travelling in summer. If you can, use apps like CityMapper to find routes that take you to your destination on air-conditioned lines, namely the Circle, District, Hammersmith & City, and Metropolitan lines or overground trains.
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Speaking of apps, the best two are TfL Go – the official Transport for London app, which includes some accessibility filters to help you plan your route better if you have specific mobility requirements – or CityMapper. CityMapper is quite basic but has the advantage of showing estimated taxi fares and other modes of private transportation if you’re unsure of the best public transport route. It will show you live travel information and can even tell you which carriage of the train you should get on.
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Lastly, two points to reassure you. London’s roads are generally safe. If travelling by taxi or any of the main private hire apps – Uber or Bolt, for example – you will be fine. Always book through the apps or use a traditional London black cab; don’t just jump into a car claiming to be a minicab outside pubs, bars or clubs late at night. If you drive, you don’t need to rent a car to visit London unless you plan to venture a long way outside the city. Travel within the city is often quicker by tube, bus, bike, or even riverboat service than it is by car. Much of central London now has 20 mph speed limits, and traffic on the motorways around the city can reach a stand still at peak times.
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London is also very walkable, but you should take extra care crossing the roads. When the green pedestrian signal lights up, take an extra second to check for cyclists or e-scooter users who don’t always realise the rules apply for them.
Is London safe to visit?
I was on the fence about whether to write this section. I have a habit of overthinking and over-researching worries about potential holiday destinations, sometimes to the point of cancelling trips. It usually does me more harm than good.
But it does make sense to know if there is anything that should stop you visiting your next dream destination. If you are already searching for information on the risks associated with visiting London, or you want to know if certain stories you’ve already read are true from a Londoner’s perspective, I’d rather you hear it from someone like me who has done the same thing ahead of holidays countless times before and who might understand a little about how you’re feeling and why you’re looking for advice.
To get the most obvious fact out of the way, London is a big city. Big cities typically have higher rates of certain types of crime than smaller towns and villages, and London is not immune to this.
But London is definitely not unsafe. I’ve lived here for around eight years and have not once been a victim of crime. You may have read stories about London having violent crime or being the ‘phone theft capital’ of Europe. There’s a lot of missing context in these headlines.
London has some violent crime, like every big city. But you are less likely to be a victim of violent crime in London than you are in other parts of the UK, on average. At the most severe end of the crime spectrum, London recorded record-low homicide rates per 100,000 people last year – ones which compare favourably to most European capitals, and which barely compare at all to the much higher rates in many of the largest US cities.
In the past year, there has been a further decrease in violent offences resulting in injury. There has also been a decrease in phone thefts, though most Londoners would agree that they would like more to be done.
Far too many politicians and newspaper writers, coupled with the high visibility of certain types of crime (phone thefts and thefts from shops, in particular) have helped create a perception that London is more unsafe than it actually is. I'm not completely immune to the anxieties that causes, but the reality is London is a city where you're no more likely - or even less likely - to be a victim of crime than in most other places you might one day visit in a long lifetime spent travelling.
There are, though, a few things you can do to help keep yourself extra safe:
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Try not to walk around the street with your phone held out in front of you, particularly in busy areas such as the West End or next to main roads. A lot of phone thefts happen while people are distracted on busy streets, perhaps while you’re booking an Uber ride or looking at directions, and might involve someone coming past you from behind on a bike and snatching it out of your hand before disappearing into the distance. Pickpockets are also active in crowded areas.
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Don’t leave your laptop or phone on café tables while you visit the bathroom. It’s better to keep your valuables with you.
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Take normal precautions when walking back to your hotel or apartment at night. If you wouldn’t walk down that side street or through a park alone at home, don’t bother doing it here. I’ve taken countless shortcuts home over the years and always been okay, but you’ll be even safer sticking to the main roads.
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If you want to go out clubbing or bar hopping while in London, just keep an eye on your drinks. There has been a reported increase in drink spiking in recent years. Though the recorded numbers of drink spiking offences are still low, compared to how many people live in and visit London, it’s likely that the actual number of offences is much higher.
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