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Christ, London sounds so bloody great.
I wish I lived there

Tea at the Ritz.

Do a runner.

I'd walk and walk. Start in West End and wander down through Soho and Chinatown to Trafalgar Square. Quick look in National gallery and then over Hungerford Bridge and along the river to Tate, Shakespeare's Globe and Borough Market, stopping to listen to all the brilliant buskers and watch the skateboarders and browse the bookstalls and mudlark on the river if the tide is low.

The South Bank is my favourite place in the world.

It is Uhh-mazing. Dont promise your kids anything from the shop - it is beyond expensive.

Mortified - we hope to do the Potter tour in the summer. Really looking forward to it.

In this weather?

Boat down the river while drinking a glass of wine.

The Harry Potter Tour

Ive done it.once before but with people so I didnt feel I could linger.

And a tour of Buck Palace.

Oh, you are posh!

Yum to rhubarb but not yum to builders' tea (am an Earl grey gel, you know!).

Or eat at Daddy Donkeys on Leather Lane market - yum!!

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.

The Wallace Collection or the Courtauld Institute of Art

I love the Hunterian Museum and John Soanes.

Off to google Lambs Conduit Street now!

Portobello Road and Golborne Road

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

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 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.

Sorry.

www.rcseng.ac.uk/museums/hunterian

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.

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

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.

A walk along the Embankment.

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

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