(Tribune Media Services) -- A key to experiencing Great Britain and Ireland smartly in 2010 is to embrace them not as "ye olde" destinations but as modern ones.
London is busily preparing for the 2012 Olympic Games, developing its Olympic Park site in the eastern part of the city. The con artists are getting warmed up for the big event, too -- fake one-pound coins have been seen around town. They're easy to spot. Real coins have an inscription on their outside rims while the rims on the fakes resemble tree bark.
As is the case all over Europe, access to London's public transit system has been automated. If you don't buy and use the local transit pass -- the Oyster Card -- the underground Tube will cost you far more than it should, particularly since the system's Three-Day Travelpass has been dropped.
Above ground, one of London's many free attractions -- the Victoria and Albert Museum -- just opened its new Medieval and Renaissance collection, filling 10 rooms with fancy slice-of-English-life artifacts. The Tower of London will host historical re-enactments throughout the year, including scenes of prisoners trying to escape and monarchs preparing for war.
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