London may no longer be the biggest city on the planet, but it may have a claim to still be one of the greatest on Earth, particularly in the summer months.
Joseph Conrad, the Polish emigre who became a British merchant seaman and a master of English prose, called London "the biggest, and the greatest, town on Earth". That was at the beginning of the 20th century, when there were still sailing ships making their way up the Thames and it was the biggest port in the world.
Paris by comparison is parochial, almost provincial, New York is stifling in the summer months and Tokyo has been rocked by the tsunami and growing fears of radiation from the nuclear meltdown.
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