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• Um, what do you like to do? My recommendation, sans further information, is: WALK. Get a decent walking guidebook and an A-Z, and wear out your shoe leather. The single most awesome place in the entire city is The Black Friar, the most beautiful pub in the world, an Art Deco masterpiece just at the north end of Blackfriars Bridge. Portobello Road Market (flea market). Leadenhall Market in the City (lovely arcade, upscale). Smithfield Market (the main meat market; get there at 6 AM to see the action). A curry on Brick Lane. Borough Market in Southwark (food). The George Inn in Southwark. The Lamb and Flag in Covent Garden. The Prospect of Whitby in Wapping. Ye Olde Cheshire Cheese (I like pubs). Six Dials and Neal's Yard. Pellici's Cafe on Bethnal Green Road (http://everything2.com/index.pl?node_id=834955) (I hope it's still there; the New Piccadilly is sadly gone). Stick your head in every single one of Christopher Wren's churches in London (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_Christopher_Wren_churches_in_London). At St. Paul's climb the stairs inside the domes. Explore the narrow pedestrian lanes in the City, like Gough Square (home of Dr. Johnson) off of Fleet Street. John Soames Museum. Tate Modern. British Museum. Victoria and Albert Museum. The Geffrye Museum in Shoreditch. Kew Gardens. Skip the Tower of London; it's tacky (especially the crown jewels). Also, skip the Changing of the Guard. Go shopping on Oxford Street instead. In summer, go to the cricket. In other seasons, go to the football; tickets to the top clubs are hard to come by but you should be able to get into Charlton or West Ham or Millwall or Crystal Palace. Fnarf answered in Whatever 4 months ago | Report 5 1 6 comments by Mahtli69, Fnarf, and Netta Rintofff… You could write a travel book. Who the fuck gave this answer a thumbs down?!? I did enjoy seeing all of the old weaponry and armor at the Tower of London, but that's just me. Mahtli69 commented 4 months ago | Report Lots of good weaponry and armor at the Wallace Collection, without the hordes of gape-mouth boobs and sticky children blocking your view. I'd love to write a travel book! I'd need to do about a thousand more hours of research, though, and I can't afford it. Fnarf commented 4 months ago | Report Thank you! Great suggestions!! Netta Rintofff commented 4 months ago | Report Look here for some good walks: http://www.timeout.com/london/features/5270/Great_London_walks.html Fnarf commented 4 months ago | Report That's a really good call on the Geffrye museum. Some friends who live further up the high st in Stoke Newington turned me on to the place. Tacomacoma commented 4 months ago | Report I love the Geffrye. The ordinary rooms of ordinary people for five hundred years or so. Fnarf commented 4 months ago | Report Enter a comment or ask a new question

• Camden Market...check out londontown.com good website Sarita Rosa answered in Whatever 4 months ago | Report 1 0 Comment on this answer Enter a comment or ask a new question

• - Borough and Portobello Road Markets - Clubs in Camden Town (be warned, however - it's a bitch to get home from this part of town late at night.) - Kensington Palace - Battersea Park, Battersea - Greenwich (town, Royal Observatory, park) - Exmouth Market in Clerkenwell (a smaller, out-of-the-way gem) - Brick Lane, best indian food outside of india (tube to Aldgate East) - Find a pub, drink during a football match, or go to a match (see Fnarf - good choices depending on where you are, but I'll add Queens Park Rangers and Fulham) - Museums (the biggest ones are free admission, V&A, British) - Good pubs near Islington Green - See what's on at the Barbican (huge state-funded performing arts complex) Tacomacoma answered in Whatever 4 months ago | Report 0 0 Comment on this answer Enter a comment or ask a new question

• Fnarf's on the money. I'd add the Tattershall Castle as a good touristy pub - it's a boat permanently moored on the Thames near Embankment tube, if it's sunny you can sit on the deck underneath Big Ben and have a few pints. The Australia - England One Day Cricket game at the Oval on Sept 4th will be a drinking carnage fest, or Lords on 12th (if any tickets are left). Mark Russell answered in Whatever 4 months ago | Report 0 0 Comment on this answer Enter a comment or ask a new question

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