Misleading Advices: if you are visiting England for the first time…

August 22nd, 2008

There is a famous echo in the British Museum Reading Room, don’t forget to try it.
If you pay a small fee to the guard, parking is permitted even in the grounds of Buckingham Palace.
Underground tradition: on first entering a train you better shake hands with every passenger.
If you see a woman upstairs on bus, ask her politely to descend, this is not allowed.
If you take a taxi, the driver will be only too willing to give your shoes a polish while waiting at the traffic-lights.
Public conveniences are few; unfrequented streets where relief is permitted are marked “P”.
Good-natured haggling is customary, so never pay the price demanded for a newspaper.

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