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I think it's too cold to walk by the river. Will have to be inland instead!

Waterstones on Piccadilly for the biggest bookshop browse/buy ever, then Fortnums for tea.

Or the behind the scenes tour at the Royal Opera House (fabulous, especially seeing the ballet dancers close up in the rehearsal studio) then Transport Museum and dinner in Covent Garden.

The V& A
The Welcome Collection
National Portrait Gallery
Window shopping in harrods or fortum and masons

harrods and the little street - waldon street? just by it - then stroll to chelsea down blossom streets.

All of these are great ideas. I second Lambs Conduit St too.

It's threads like these that make me so grateful to live in this wonderful City!

Well I was thinking Lambs Conduit Street as well. Is it easy to get there from Holburn?

V&A
Wellcome Collection
Wallis Museum
National Gallery & Portrait Gallery
Any of the Tate Galleries
Saatchi Gallery
British Museum
Museum of Childhood

Kings Cross platform 9 3/4
Camden

Lunch at the v and a
Walk to hyde park corner taking in the shops at knightsbridge
Bus to oxford Street
Coffee and cake in selfridges

Second hand book shops on charing. Cross road, coffee somewhere with comfy settees, & I'd borrow Hidden London or some such book from a library, & set off on a trail

The Natural History Museum. I love it there but haven't been for years! My dad used to take me for my birthday and the shopping in Harrods! so I have really find memories of it.

Lambs Conduit Street was fab! I'd love to live in that area. The Soanes house was interesting. I was disappointed with the Foundling museum. I was expecting to come out bawling but, it was more of an art gallery and not worth £8. Dickins house was good again, not worth £8. I can say I've been now. It was bitterly cold today otherwise I would still be there!

Matinee of a show

V & A

British Museum

Waterstone's Gower St or Foyles Charing Cross Rd

or people watching at St Pancras

My top 5 on my own. Any of the above obviously include stops for tea and cake.

ooh I've always wanted to do the behind the scenes at Covent Garden thing but never managed it.

A walk along the Embankment.

If I could spend a little money I'd go to Camden Market or go on a river boat.

glad you had a good time OP. i'm interested that you thought the Foundlings museum wasn't so good. It's a long while since i was there, but I distinctly remember the massive lump in my throat at all the little keepsakes! I don't recall any pictures really, perhaps I only went in part of it, and it does sound a bit pricy.

The Tate- but not Tate Modern, don't like it in there!!

I love Soanes too. Right opposite there is Hunterians museum too which is equally good.

http://www.rcseng.ac.uk/museums/hunterian

Have a good time. I miss London so very much.

Sorry.

www.rcseng.ac.uk/museums/hunterian

I don't know what I was expecting of the foundling museum. I just thought it would have more personality. More emotion. Put it this way, my nieces would have been bored and they are 9 10 and 12 and obsessed with Jacqueline Wilson and babies been abandoned on doorsteps! There just wasn't enough it it. I guess I was expecting to walk into a workhouse or something! The floors upstairs are full of portraits of the rich patrons. It's was expensive and I expected more.

I really enjoyed the Jewsh Museum yesterday which was the same size.

For anyone else planning a wander round Holborn, there's a lovely caff called the Fleet River Bakery on High Holborn - on the left hand side as you walk down towards the Strand (I think technically it's in Lincolns Inn Fields).

I'm off to London tomorrow for the weekend - have pretty much had it all planned out for me by the friends I'm visiting but this thread has given me a burst of nostalgia for my old stomping grounds!

I wished I'd been a student at GOSH with live in accomodation!

Portobello Road and Golborne Road

I love the Hunterian Museum and John Soanes.

Off to google Lambs Conduit Street now!

The Wallace Collection or the Courtauld Institute of Art

Remus there's a cafe next to the book shop that does rhubarb crumble and custard etc for a couple of quid and, proper builders tea. Fab.