What It’s Like to Visit London Now
The city is slowing its reopening to tourism. Here’s a local’s take on what to expect when you get there.
An afternoon in London’s Waterloo district.
Photographer: SOPA Images/LightRocketNeil Callanan is Bloomberg’s London bureau chief.
Every evening, groups of tourists gather on London Bridge to take pictures of the skyline and then walk to Tower Bridge along the river Thames. For the world’s third-most visited city, it’s one of the few signs that visitors have kept coming during lockdowns that have sapped the capital’s energy.