The Summer Olympics are about to begin in London, the Queen just celebrated her Diamond Jubilee on the throne and the Isles are celebrating the 50th anniversary of a bar band from Liverpool recording its first album. Last month I spent a week in London, Liverpool and Edinburgh, Scotland - just goofing around, seeing the sights and eating fish 'n' chips more times than I should have. If you got up early for the royal wedding on TV and enjoy watching soldiers in tall furry hats stomping their feet, the Changing of the Guard is an experience. Abbey Road, in St. John's Wood in northwest London, is a major tourist attraction without trying to be one. Every day, a stream of visitors comes to Abbey Road just to stand outside the iron gates and look at the front door, maybe to catch a famous band arriving or copping a smoke during a break. Tourists pose for pictures on the famous crosswalk, just like the Beatles on the cover of the Abbey Road album. Abbey Road is a functioning street, with busy traffic. The pedestrian-only street is lined with shops, bars, restaurants, street performers and magnificent churches and office buildings. The Royal Mile is like Bourbon Street in New Orleans, without drunk strangers telling me I'm the greatest guy they've ever met, and me fearing what comes next. About three-quarters of the way up, I stopped at a barber shop and got a haircut ? just so I could I could sit in a chair and rest. When a customer orders a sandwich, either a Piglet (small for $4), an Oink (medium, $5.50) or Grunter ($7), the friendly sandwich artist (as Subway calls them) takes a cleaver and slices meat ? all day long. By morning, the pigs are tender and mild, nothing like a smoky, U.S. Southern-style pulled pork sandwich dripping with barbecue sauce. Each Oink sandwich has a small bit of the pig's crackling, crunchy skin on top, like the prize in a box of Cracker Jack. [...] there's a small battle being waged between owners of upscale restaurants and clothing stores on the Royal Mile and the ever-increasing number of "Tartan Tats," shops selling inexpensive sweatshirts, T-shirts and Loch Ness Monster toys (see Orlando). Built in the 12th century, it's the oldest structure in Scotland's capital and its image is everywhere - on postage stamps, on the back on money, in the logos for soccer teams and newspapers. Originally built as a military fortress and home to the Royals, Edinburgh Castle is Scotland's No. 1 tourist attraction, with 1.3 million paying visitors (about $26 for adults, $16 for kids) each year. [...] they don't mind if you buy a T-shirt in the gift shop.
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