100 London places for your bucket list – part 1
You may think you’ve seen and done it all in London, but we bet you haven’t. Not unless you’ve had an awful lot of spare time and have a fantastic imagination! For now, we shall assume that is not the case, and present you with this list of 100 London places you ought to add to your bucket list.
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- Eat unlimited toast at Breads Etcetera in Clapham and Brixton
- Fly across the Thames on the Emirates Air Line
- Shop at the same “supermarket” as the Queen; Fortnum and Mason
- Peruse the largest collection of portraits in the world, at the National Portrait Gallery
- Move on to Van Gogh’s famous Sunflowers at the National Gallery
- In fact, take your pick from the biggest selection of national museums in any European city
- Watch the Thames Barrier, the world’s second largest movable flood defence, in action
- Stroll through the biggest wild seed plant bank at Kew Gardens
- Buy a bespoke suit from Saville Row, where Frank Sinatra used to get his
- Visit Europe’s largest surviving warship, H.M.S Belfast
- Indulge in some afternoon tea at William Morris’ house
- Pop down to Abbey Road and recreate THAT Beatles album cover
- Pay your respects at Karl Marx’ grave
- Visit St Paul’s, with the largest crypt in Europe
- Spend a few hours wandering around the oldest scientific zoo in the world, London Zoo
- Sleep at the British Museum. You’ll be fine, the mummies don’t really come to life at night…
- Visit the building where the Gunpowder Plot was devised
- Go to Neasden Temple, the first and largest traditional Hindu Mandir outside India
- Visit the important features of any public place on a London Loo Tour
- Take in the only NFL games played outside the USA
- Drink at the longest champagne bar in Europe, at St Pancras International
- Book onto a backstage tour at the Royal Opera House
- Dine, sleep or view London from a terrific height at The Shard
- Climb up and over the roof of the O2 arena
- Drink on the roof of a disused car park in Peckham
- Swim outdoors in any weather at Hampstead Heath
- Have coffee and cake in a Victorian public lavatory
- Make the trip to Stoke Newington for the trendiest car boot sale EVER
- Dance the Time Warp at Dennis Severs’ old house in Spitalfields
- Visit Charles Darwin’s former home in Bromley
- Read Shakespeare’s first folio and the Magna Carta at the British Library
- See medicine grow before your very eyes at Chelsea Physic Garden
- See the 99-inch wide Skinny House in Denmark Hill
- Add the Thin House to your collection of quirky architecture viewings
- See quagga and dodo bones at the Grant Museum (useless fact – a 7 year old Susan had to take an encyclopaedia to school to prove the quagga’s existence to a disbelieving teacher…)
- Tour St Bride’s; where Samuel Pepys was baptised, and a pit of skulls and bones can still be seen
- Go mudlarking
- Explore the Fan Museum in Greenwich
- See Jeremy Bentham’s actual head
- Take a stroll under the Thames
- Have your photo taken with the Traffic Light Tree
- Naked Ladies!
- See how a police station fit inside a hollowed-out lamp post
- Pay a (brief!) visit to the last methane lamp in London, which can be found on Farting Lane (Carting Lane)
- Go to the Tower of London to see the largest cut and polished white diamond in the world
- Stand on the Greenwich Meridian Line
- Drink at Dickens’ local, the Trafalgar Tavern in Greenwich
- Womble around Wimbledon Common
- See an original, Grade II listed, red wooden telephone box in the courtyard of the Royal Academy of Arts
- Walk with the dinosaurs at the Natural History Museum
We’ll be back with part 2 of our list very soon. In the meantime, get visiting!
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