The Open Guide to London: the free London guide

In many of the more relaxed cultures of London's inhabitants, the Open Guide has already supplanted the great wealth of guidebooks as the standard repository of all knowledge and wisdom on the city, for though it has many omissions and contains much that is apocryphal, or at least wildly inaccurate, it scores over the older, more pedestrian works in two important respects.

First, it is free; and secondly it has the words Don't Panic inscribed in large friendly letters on its cover.

(with apologies to Douglas Adams)

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