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Actually I have one that hasn't, RAF museum, Northern line to Collin dale.
I already said we'll probably be going there. 😀Â
But yeah, it's a good suggestion, definitely right up my alley!
London Transport Museum do tours of some of the closed parts of the underground network I believe.
They also do tours on a vintage Tube train, see if one of those is on. Not many offered these days cos so much of the network has been modernised but there's still a few tracks it can do.
Imperial War Museum. The VC gallery is sadly going to close soon, worth the trip to Lambeth just to see that.
Battersea Power Station is a nice space and you can watch the super rich doing a bit of shopping.
TIL I'm "super rich" 🙂
... although when we visited at Christmas most of the shops were fairly standard shopping centre fare. Nice building, but not somewhere I'd go out of my way to visit again.Â
Two mega nerdy bridges in Paddington Basin- but limited in 'action times'. Heatherwick's rolling bridge is a little underwhelming, but at the same time a fascinating slightly alien artefact. The Fan bridge is a bit more spectacular, but lacks the magic of Heatherwick's design.
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Hire a couple of Santander bikes on a Sunday morning and go for a ride around central London and out to St Pauls and the city then over Tower bridge, you can then head back over the bridge and ride around Whitechapel, Brick lane then head back towards central London, lots to see and its quite quiet on the roads on a Sunday morning
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I did it on my own last year and few mates said they want to come next time
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more ideas for filling up the days are welcome!
London has a couple of good escape rooms and a bunch of shit ones. Cluequest and Escape Plan come highly recommended. ER-adjacent is Phantom Peak which is supposed to be an amazing experience and a full day of a job.
I haven't been to any of these as a povvy Northerner but "recommend me an escape room in London" in the enthusiasts group is as common as "what tyres" or "what laptop" on here.
Thanks for the suggestion, but escape rooms have never piqued my interest. Maybe one day I'll get dragged along to one and discover that I love them but until and unless that happens I don't think I'll be seeking them out!
The weather forecast for the weekend is looking pretty good so perhaps just being out and about around some of the interesting bits of the city could be something to do.
We did a guided cycling tour which was excellent, and I really enjoyed the National Portrait Gallery which nobody seems to have suggested yet.Â
I really enjoyed the National Portrait Gallery which nobody seems to have suggested yet.Â
It is nice and manageable.
I'd also suggest Tate Britain instead of Tate Modern.
And just generally walking round the city, rather than getting on and off the tube all the time.
This year we've got 3 and a bit daytimes to fill, as The Hold Steady have added an extra show to the weekend. The stuff we've pencilled in so far seems to be:
- The RAF Museum. I can probably spend a long time there.
- A trip to St Paul's, the London Mithraeum and the Monument, which all seem to be in the same general area, as do a few other things that might be of interest.
- A trip to the Wembley area, for a particularly nerdy reason, though we'll probably find some other stuff to do while over that way.
The Transport Museum's Hidden London tours, Somerset House and some of the other stuff suggested here have also been added to our notes and might end up being visited instead of or in addition to the above.
Plus we're staying around Camden Town so mooching around the market can always eat up a few hours. 😀Â
Horizon22 could be interesting but it looks like it books out pretty quickly, so something that might be worth remembering about next year, but not possible this weekend.
What we ended up doing:
- Wandered around Camden Market after getting to London on Thursday. Freddy Mercury artwork seems more popular than he was last year.Â
- RAF Museum on Friday. I last went in 2018 when about half of the halls were open, so it was nice to see the the history of the RAF, modern RAF and WWI halls, and it's cool to pass through the Sunderland.
- St Paul's Cathedral on Saturday. The plan was also to visit the Mithraeum and the Monument but we ended up spending all our available time at St Paul's. The (free) audio guides are really good. We made it up to the Whispering and Stone Galleries but sort feet and varying levels of vertigo kept us from the Golden Gallery. As I've been watching Lord Hardthrasher's series about the Burma campaign during WWII on YouTube it was nice to see Bill Slim's memorial in the crypt, especially after seeing quite how much of its space seems to be devoted to what could generally be described as "bastards from the East India Company". Edit: Turns out that Wikipedia has a section covering accusations that Bill Slim did some rather unsavoury things when he was Governor General of Australia after the war. Sigh.
- Battersea Park, Battersea Power Station and Chelsea Physic Garden on Sunday. Battersea Park is quite nice to wander around on a nice day, the Power Station is impressive even if it's full of expensive shops and Chelsea Physic Garden is small, but interesting.
- Primrose Hill and Regent's Park as we wandered from Chalk Farm to King's Cross on Monday. More decent green spaces.
In addition we had gigs at The Dome in Tuffnell Park, the Electric Ballroom in Camden (twice) and the 100 Club on Oxford Street, though it was handy that the band's singer explained how significant the 100 Club was, as I'd never heard of it - great gig though!