Above Ground on the London Underground: Back to Piccadilly Circus

One of the places I was most looking forward to seeing in London was Piccadilly Circus. I'd written about here for the Above Ground on the London Underground tour in 7 Things You Need to Know about Piccadilly Circus and touched on it in From the Ritz to Piccadilly Circus . I was excited to show the Circus to my husband, telling him we needed to save it for one of our nighttime activities. All those amazing advertising billboards had to be seen lit up at night. Piccadilly Circus: The patchwork screens are being switched off and will be replaced with a mega screen in the Autu… https://t.co/NBdQZGvP2O — City A.M. (@CityAM) January 16, 2017 Little did I know that the lighted patchwork Piccadilly is famous for is undergoing a change. The existing patchwork was taken down this spring and will be replaced by one large screen. In the meantime, this temporary fix looked large but ordinary, paper adverts lit up from above, not from behind. Of course the Cir...