Tourist Stuff in London

This is an updated version of this list. Thanks to everyone for the comments and suggestions! I also remembered a few more things. In two days we’ve knocked quite a few things off the list. Taking day 3 off to rest though!

Museums

• Tate modern – great building, meh exhibitions
• Tate Britain – good exhibitions
• Hayward – free at the moment I believe
• Victoria and Albert – will miss the next big Friday late, but still good to visit
• National gallery – lovely art, great buildings, great commentary
• National portrait gallery – hopefully something photography that won’t piss me off
• British library – yes, apparently there IS stuff to see
• Royal Academy – anything free and decent? Worth it if we’re near Fortnum and Mason
• British Museum – cool stiff we stole
• Photographers gallery – 50/50 chance of pissing me off
• Canary wharf (museum) – can double up with Greenwich
• Museum of London at the Barbican
• Wellcombe Collection – love this and great café!
• Geffrye Museum – good when doing the Hoxditch badlands

Historic Buildings

• Hampton Court Palace – she likes Henry VIII
• St Pauls – great building, great view from the top
• St Martin in the Fields – nice café in the crypt
• Westminster Abbey – never done it. Would be nice
• Buck House – actually neither of us care about this
• Royal Albert Hall

Theatre Stuff

• Avenue Q – yeah yeah. it’s cheap and funny
• Globe Theatre – bit of culture
• ICA – I’m a member and they show cool films
• IMAX – not especially London, but I want to see Harry Potter
• The Proms! – They’re on now!

Shopping!

• Forbidden Planet – laugh at the nerds
• Japan Centre – good books, good food
• Hamleys – just because
• Harrods – same
• Carnaby St – not what it was, but Austin Powers

Markets

• Camden Market
• Spitalfields
• Brick lane
• Portobello road
• Covent garden
• Chinatown
• Borough Market
• Marylebone high street
• Greenwich – market and park. And the college buildings

Other Random Stuff

• London zoo
• Smithfield
• Tourist bus
• River bus/tour
• Primrose hill – view London, nice pubs in the village
• Tower of London/London bridge – at least look at the outside
• Cinema Wednesdays – I got her an Orange SIM. Would be rude not to
• Regent’s Park – my back garden, so rude not to.
• St. James’s Park – close to the ICA and other tourist stuff
• Hampstead Heath – handy by bus from Camden
• Kew Gardens – used to do these as a kid when they we 6d and so see the pagoda

Food!

• Pie and mash eels
• City fullers- PIE!
• Teachi – good, cheap dim sum
• Leongs – Taiwanese food in case she gets desperate for home cooking
• Crown and goose – my local. Foamy ale
• Somers Town coffee house – nice pub in an odd place
• Fish and chips
• Brick lane curry – people have a big downwer on this. I have one cheap caff style place I love, but otherwise, I agree: meh. For food in the area, definitely the Lahore Kebab
• Drummond street curry – mmmm…dosa

Other Towns

• Brighton – English seaside
• Bath – My old home town
• Windsor – The Castle!
• Cambridge – not my thing and packed with tourists

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