London

London is the capital of the United Kingdom and the largest city in Europe. Since it almost certainly already figures in your travel plans, it is hardly worth trying to convince you to go there, but what the hell: here's some enthusiastic praise. London is fantastic. For the passing tourist there is somewhere new to visit every day, somewhere else to drink every night. And even if you have been there before, or even if you live there, London still has something new every day, whether it is a walk through a different park, a building you never noticed before or an amazing epic west end show, something will leave you shaking your head as you finish off the night in yet another new pub. Hell, you could even go back to your favourite pub and shake your head there - if you keep handing over the money they'll keep handing over the beer.

If you have ever read a travel guide you will know that Samuel Pepys once observed that "If a man is tired of London then he is tired of life". It is unclear why all travel guides have to include this quote - Mr Pepys was a noted diarist of his times, but he has been dead for a number of hundreds of years now, and it must be clear to even the most casual observer that London has changed almost beyond all recognition in that time. Anyway, people certainly do get fed up of London - the English countryside is full of people who got fed up with London and moved away to knit cattle and rear woollen jumpers on their very own smallholdings. Travellers don't get fed up of London however, and even if they only intend to stay for a week or so many end up measuring their stay in months. So don't take old Sam's word for it - head there and ask a barman.