What should one do in London?

[Louis VI the Fat]

any random small town in France, Germany, Spain, Italy, etc.

Small towns breath history indeed.

Many smaller cities can be historical as a city as a whole: Florence, Bruges, Amsterdam, Rome, many in Britain too. Each one a former metropole. Here one can sense history.
There are also old cities, that really consist of modern buildings interpersed with a collection of old monuments. This makes the city appear very old, when most of it is new: Paris, London, Vienna, Barcelona, Rome.
Then there are plain modern cities that simply look like they're old: Munich, Budapest, Berlin, Rome.

It is a matter of taste, of preference maybe. The US/Euro view of history I must respectfully leave for another thread, however interesting.


Postcard version of London. There is nothing in the picure below that precedes the 19th century: