This is my old "random things to do" list (with a few no longer valid things pruned):
Wildlife Photographer of the Year exhibition at the Natural History Museum
Mousetrap (Theatre) - been running without interruption for 52
years
Lighthouse Restaurant in St. Katherine's Docks
Alessi coffee and tea towers
in Lincoln's Inn
Sotheby's have a wine tasting course on
Smithfield Meat Market,
followed by brunch at Smiths of Smithfield
Turkish and Russian Baths at York Hall
London Jazz Week is
on that week, loooads of stuff on.
Hampstead village then walk on Heath, ending
up in Spaniards Inn pub.
DLR out to Greenwich, through the market, up to the
dateline and Royal Observatory, then mainline train back to central.
Jack the
Ripper walk around Aldgate
London Duck Tours It's crazy, embarrassing, but lots
of fun! www.londonducktours.com
Visit to
Parliament, including going inside Commons or House of Lords…
Chai Bazaar
(Indian tea bar),
Yauatcha (Chinese tea bar)
Markets - Billingsgate Fish Market, Smithfields or Borough
The
largest Hindu temple outside India, in Neasden, and it's just after Diwali this
weekend. Shri Swaminarayan Mandhir
One of the many Comedy Clubs
MASH or Freedom
Bars - they brew their own beer
Belgos - 300 beers plus mussels
Garlic and Shots
restaurant in Soho - everything garlicy, even beer and puddings!
The
"Monument" - climb up it and see views of city from top
Canal - take
canal boat from Camden to Little Venice or vice versa. Little Venice is very
pretty.
Riverside pubs at Richmond, and walk in Richmond Park.
Pineapple Dance
Club - take a lesson in some form of dancing.. salsa or anything
Manor Park rock
climbing club.. beginners lesson?
The Fat Duck http://www.fatduck.co.uk/ Sublime foodie stuff.. Three michelin stars.
Out in Bray in Berkshire. Holy!
Locanda Locatelli
http://www.locandalocatelli.com/ Best of Italian in London at the moment..
London
Transport Museum
Shakespeare's Globe
Royal Botanic Gardens Kew
London Walks.
Ripper Walk, The Westminster Nobody Knows sounds interesting, or Ghosts of the
West End
Pizza Express Soho Jazz
Microbrewery in Greenwich
Hampton Court Palace
Strangers
Gallery in Parliament
Alton Towers trip
British Grand Prix
Bramah Tea and Coffee
Museum
Sing-A-Long-A Sound of Music at Prince Charles cinema - even more fun dressed
up as Nun or Nazi!
Weird restaurants like Archipelago - serving scorpions etc
Auction
houses
Millennium footbridge and Tate Modern
Kyoto Garden in Holland Park
Disco Roast in Shoreditch
RollerSkating in Hyde Park
Dennis Severs’ House Tour
Folk and Blues at the Harrison, King's Cross
Kew Bridge Steam Museum with London's only working Steam Railway
Urban Golf in Soho - high tech golf simulation
East London Art Walk - guided around some of the newer galleries
Speakers Corner
Farmers' Markets
Bike Polo in Brick Lane - bring your bicycle, mallets are provided
Columbia Road Flower Market, plus oysters in the alley that connects Ezra Street and Shipton Street next to Jones’s equally inviting dairy store.
Sunday Knit Roast
Free Brazilian dance Forro lessons at Guanabara on Drury Lane
Boules in Cleaver Square in Kennington
Apsley House & Wellington Arch
Bank of England Museum
The British Dental Association Museum
Brunel Engine House
Cartoon Museum
Cabinet War Rooms and Churchill Museum
The Museum of Brands and Packaging
Horniman Museum
Freud Museum
Petrie Museum - Egyptian stuff
Garden Museum and Cafe
Crystal Palace Museum
Guildhall Clockmakers' Museum
Hunterian Museum
Kirkaldy Testing Museum
Leighton House
Library and Museum of Freemasonry
London Canal Museum
London Fire Brigade Museum
London Sewing Machine Museum
MCC Museum
Museum and Library of the Order of St John
Museum of Immigration and Diversity
Museum of London
Museum of Rugby
New London Architecture
Royal Academy of Music
Sherlock Holmes Museum
Sir John Soane’s Museum
Smythson Stationery Museum
Wellcome Institute
The Old Bailey for a trial
Wallace Collection
Hackney City Farm
Mudchute Farm
Tennis for Free
Harrods
British Library
Pure Groove record shop, EC1
Greenwich Meridien etc
Southwark Cathedral Audio Tour
Roundhouse in Camden
Wimbledon Stadium Greyhound Racing
Prince Charles Cinema
Windmill in Brixton for live music
New music and poetry on a boat for just £6 (£4 concs) at Yacht Club, Victoria Embankmemt
Vampire Walk in Highgate