City of blinding lights offers difference experience with each visit

LONDON could be forgiven for resting on its laurels.

In the space of a year, after all, we’ve seen a royal wedding, a stonking great Olympic Games, a golden jubilee, the Tube’s 150th birthday, the birth of Prince George Alexander Louis, and the opening of the EU’s tallest building (The Shard).

Phew. With a hit list like that, any other city would be happy to sit back and listen to the collective sound of its cash registers chiming. Ker-ching!