Tuesday, 21 September 2010

The list (number nine)

Here's an updated list with a few items crossed-out:
  • Tour round Buckingham Palace
  • Go up the BT Tower for the view
  • Cycle around Richmond park
  • Sneak into the fancy hotels - Hilton, Savoy etc
  • Go to all the museums in London
  • Go to all the major art museums in London
  • Have a drink in the ice-bar off Regent Street
  • Do the sing-along sound of music at the Prince Charles cinema
  • Watch a film at the Electric cinema in Notting Hill
  • Watch a film at a Leicester Square cinema
  • Watch an IMAX film near Waterloo
  • Go to a casino
  • Explore the new O2 centre at the Millennium Dome
  • Tour round the BBC TV centre and BBC Broadcasting House
  • Watch a live, well-attended debate in Parliament (e.g. Prime Ministers questions)
  • Go out for an artsy night out in the east-end.
  • Shop at Petticoat Lane market
  • Go on the rides at the London dungeons
  • Sit in on a Sotheby's auction
  • Eat at a traditional pie 'n' mash shop
  • Tour round Lord's cricket ground
  • Tour round Wembley stadium
  • Go to the London wetland centre
  • Visit Chelsea Physic Garden
  • Get into London fashion week
  • Tour around City Hall
  • Tour around Tower Bridge
  • Go to the tennis at Wimbledon
  • See some plays
  • Ride home in a rickshaw
  • Eat at some famous restaurants
  • Visit the hidden-away nature reserve behind St. Pancras station
  • Visit a big mosque, big synagogue, other big places of worship
  • Use an "isolation tank" near London Bridge
  • Get a free Hare Krishna vegetarian meal
  • Go to the the Jazz Cafe in Camden
  • Go to some jazz club I've heard about in Soho
  • Eat a meal in one of the touristy Leicester square steak houses
  • Tour around Battersea power station
  • Explore Heathrow Terminal 5
  • Tour round Albert Hall and Albert Memorial
  • Tour round Chiswick's Fuller's brewery
  • Tour round Wandsworth's Young's Brewery
  • Eat at the restaurant at the top of Tate Modern
  • Visit an exhibition at Earls Court and Kensington Olympia
  • Visit a city farm
  • Tour round Thames barrier
  • Visit a talk at the Royal Geographical Society
  • Buy some food from a roadside taxi cafe
  • Visit the London library at Piccadilly
  • View a trial at the Old Bailey
  • Visit Highgate cemetery

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