Over-the-shoulder espionage and underground eavesdropping. You could learn all about London by spending a day as a mole, mindlessly riding the Northern Line, the oldest, longest line of oldest subway on earth-the London Tube.

The North American driver's instinct is always to look to the left when entering a roundabout - but the onslaught of oncoming British traffic is always coming from the right ! And you have only a nanosecond to figure out which lane? When? And how? And where - to get off the bloody thing!

It is historically inevitable that there should appear, in the town of Tintagel on the stormy coast of Cornwall, a car park named King Arthur, a launderette named Launcelot and a lottery draw machine named Merlin. After all, Celtic mythology and Tintagel tourism have it that the heroic chieftain who saved Britain from Barbarians in 12 great battles was brought forth into the world from Merlin the Enchanter’s sea cave at the base of Tintagel Castle.