London 'Must do's'!

[DrRingDing]

Lunch in the New Piccadilly Cafe

Smart

Added too.

 

[DrRingDing]

Docklands/Poplar. Marvel at some of the poorest areas in the UK just metres from some of the wealthiest.

Check

 

[trashpony]

It's also very close to where I am too.

Added to my to do list.

I had forgotten how fab it is. There are letters home from young soldiers in the trenches that will make you weep - take time to read them.

Another really good thing to do is to walk the length of Regent's Canal. Start at Islington (just behind Angel tube) and you can walk along the towpath to Little Venice in one direction (you have to come above ground for about 1/4 m near Kings X) and to Limehouse Basin in the other. It's a really interesting trawl through London. Some great pubs on the way too!

 

[davesgcr]

Take a ride (off peak) on the North London line - best views of the capital especially coming down from Hampstead Heath.

Walk through Bloomsbury to the river via Covent Garden and Seven Dials

Walk through Spitalfields

 

[DrRingDing]

Another really good thing to do is to walk the length of Regent's Canal. Start at Islington (just behind Angel tube) and you can walk along the towpath to Little Venice in one direction (you have to come above ground for about 1/4 m near Kings X) and to Limehouse Basin in the other. It's a really interesting trawl through London. Some great pubs on the way too!

Check, check and check!

 

[DrRingDing]

Walk through Spitalfields

I love Spitalfields, I used to walk through it every week day for a year

 

[DrRingDing]

Take a ride (off peak) on the North London line - best views of the capital especially coming down from Hampstead Heath.

Walk through Bloomsbury to the river via Covent Garden and Seven Dials

Done and dusted.

 

[DrRingDing]

Second Sir John Soane museum, definitely!

Never heard of it but it's now on my list.

Cheers.

 

[Stobart Stopper]

Go to St Pauls on a Wednesday at about 4pm,(it closed at 4.15 to people coming in )grab a seat and wait until 5 when they do Evensong, it finishes at 6. St Pauls has recently had it's dome restored and it's looking good

 

[DrRingDing]

i rekkon you should do the Eye if you havent already

I went up there on a foggy day

But I think for the view www.vertigo42.co.uk is a better bet as you get to get pished at teh same time

 

[DrRingDing]

Go to St Pauls on a Wednesday at about 4pm,(it closed at 4.15 to people coming in )grab a seat and wait until 5 when they do Evensong, it finishes at 6. St Pauls has recently had it's dome restored and it's looking good

I've never been to St. Pauls that sounds fantastic. I took my grandma to Ely cathedral for evensong and I was amazed...she loved it

 

[Stobart Stopper]

The acoustics in St Pauls are just unbelievable, they had an American choir there a few weeks ago but we couldn't stay as my son had a tennis lesson to get back to.

 

[William of Walworth]

The "Devonshire Hunting Tapestries" - hidden away at the very back of the first floor of the Victoria and Albert Museum about half a mile from the front door. Sit down for a couple of minutes for your eyes to adjust to the dim lighting, and be astonished.


If you've never been to the V&A before, the "Raphael Cartoons" are probably worth a peek as well.

Yes! Visit us!!! Er, I mean them

 

[tim]

Second Sir John Soane museum, definitely!

Whilst your there try and visit the Halls and Chapel at Lincoln's Inn; across the Square from the Soane's museum is the Royal college of surgeons inside which is the Hunteriaqn museum, which is free and wonderfully gruesome. You can see the skeleton of Jonathan Wilde, 18century London's celebrity thief-taker, and artistically pickled bits of various other people.


Also go and see Tower Bridge have an erection.

 

[Xanadu]

Throw an urbanite going away party. Possibly at the albert.

 

[mod]

Go to a LOST party and see Jeff Mills DJ.