A fact, as irrefutable as the sun rising: no Londoner deliberately ever goes to Leicester Square, the London Eye or Madame Tussauds. And if one does, either that Londoner is an intern charged with organising the company social, or they are someone going at the insistence of a “friend” visiting from out of town. Or they’ve lost a bet.
And while there’s much in London that appeals to newcomers and old-hands alike — the theatres, the galleries — when that friend or unfortunate relative arrives armed with TripAdvisor’s list of “top 10 unmissable sites” and the will to queue in the rain for hours on end just to tick them all off, it’s one of those soul-dampening feelings. All the host can do is organise drinks and dinner worth suffering for.
