50 Things to do in London

This came out of these doodlings on the train to London airport. This is my account of how many of those things we achieve.

Day 1

I hadn’t decided to blog our tourist exploits at this point so I only had my iPhone camera with me and only got one snap. Still, walking from Camden through Regent’s Park[1] down the Avenue, stopping for overpriced but good ice cream was lovely. Little did we expect, that by the time we got to the bottom and were heading across towards Marylebone High Street, we would get caught in a monsoon. Not a tropical one mind, just a nasty, cold very wet one. We made it to Marylebone church[2] where we had a lovely hot chocolate to warm up. Then back home to change into dry clothes.

Our second attempt out involved getting the 88 down to Picadilly Circus, eyeballing Eros[3], wandering through Chinatown[4], checking out the rice bowl mural, across Leicester Square[5], pointing out the sites of the film perimeres and into the National Gallery[6] to check out some Turners. From there, we crossed over into Covent Garden[7] through the churchyard, only scoping it out and watching the tail end of one performer in the plaza. Then home and tasty food.

Day 2

Day 2 started slowly as I had a meeting in the morning, but we made it in time to hit Marina’s in Borough Market[9] for a bacon butty. We perused half the market twice, don’t ask, stopping to look at the various veggie and cheesy goodies on offer. A swift pint later and we headed onwards to wander the South Bank[10].

We ducked into the Globe[11] to pick up some leaflets and we’ll definitely be back to get some culture. We had an ice cream at Gabriel’s Wharf[12] and perused the art, trinkets and clothes. Finally, we walked across the bridge to Embankment tube and headed home.

Final event of the evening was a gig at the Camden Barfly[8], to see Shake who came highly recommended. They did indeed rock mightily. Sadly, I missed the finale where the singer got taken to hospital covered in blood. Ho hum!

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