London adventures - October to December

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What are fun things to do in central London, either on my own or with friends in the latter part of this year? (Late 20s, Early 30s)

Also at some point do we stop romanticising London and get bored of it? What's there really to do that really excites people?

Why not buy a travel guide and see if you have been to all the museums and galleries, including the more obscure ones? There are bound to be some you have never visited. Also, they all constantly all have special exhibitions - eg the Cartier exhibition at the V&A, Indian religious art exhibition at the British Museum, Wildlife Photography exhibition at the Natural History Museum, etc, on at the moment. And there are always new plays, new musicals, new concerts for every possible type of music. I genuinely have no idea how you could run out of new and fascinating things to do in London.

If you fancy doing an all night long walk through London, have a look at the Shine night walk run by Cancer Research.I think other charities do night walks through London as well.
If you don't fancy walking it, you might enjoy signing up as a volunteer steward - that's quite fun too!
.www.cancerresearchuk.org/get-involved/find-an-event/charity-walks/shine-night-walk/shine-night-walk-london

Show film first is good, has a good variety of theatre, concerts and events.
I used to use others but haven’t for a while.

Join the Guild of Young Freemen and take part in the Lord Mayor's Show.

youngfreemen.org/

I feel most days I just go immediately home after work. One day a week I go to my muay Thai class to get a workout but I'll just go home. If I work from home. I'll log off at 5pm and just rest after. Kinda feel I need to "do" more stuff.

What about the late night openings they do at places like the Science Museum?

Thanks for this. It looks good. I'll do it!

Central Tickets, Audience Club

Also I prefer going out when it's sunny. If it's cloudy or overcast sometimes just walking around feels dull and I can't take into account the city.

2 things I've decided. I'm going to go afternoon tea with my parents (I love them very much).

I'm also going to go some a bakery this weekend and get some nice sweet treats.

Re the dance nights - there are increasing numbers of “early” dance nights which finish by midnight ish. Annie Mac’s Before Midnight is the most well known but doesn’t happen often and sells out instantly. But there are others if you hunt around. Appreciate you still have to solve the problem of someone to go with but maybe one of your gang secretly wants to do more dancing too? You won’t know unless you ask!

I wish I’d done more nights out dancing in my 20s before I had to get up with the kids the next day so I encourage you to keep trying!

Bluntly, OP, this sounds like more of a 'you' thing than a London thing. If you're afraid to be out in the early hours but your friends aren't interested in doing what you do, don't like being out in cloudy weather, haven't been clubbing since university, can't figure out how to get home from central London to Mile End by night bus, and usually just go home after work apart from once a week -- then frankly, you may as well be living in some dullsville rather than in a great world city.

It's a while since I stopped living in London (left the UK), but when I did live there, I did things like getting cheap theatre and opera tickets, going to all the markets (always started Sunday morning with Columbia Road and then down Brick Lane to Spitalfields for food), I was a member of the Tate and Royal Academy, so did members' late night events, openings etc, always went to the London Film Festival, music at the Wigmore Hall, free Radio 3 lunchtime concerts in various churches in central London, Open House, one of the singalong films at the Prince Charles, taken classes in fencing, philosophy, breadmaking and drama, did a lot of walks using books like 'Village London' and 'Secret London', and looked up and visited a lot of houses where famous writers lived. Lots of events at the LRB. We did a lot of charging off to fairly obscure places for food (like the best ever chilli paneer in Wembley) or historic pubs etc. DH went to a lot of football games. I used to swim in the Hampstead Ponds and go to a fair few gigs.

If I were in London right now this minute, I would be booking the current Punchdrunk show out in Woolwich, see The Bacchae at the NT and the Emily Kam Kngwarray show at Tate Modern and Gilbert and George at the Hayward, have tapas at Moro, have a walk for old time's sake on Hampstead Heath and a few drinks in The Flask, and eat my bodyweight in good Indian food, which is sadly lacking where I live now.

wrt safety and public transport at night - I have used the 24 hour tubes and night buses for decades, because of my job and now if I am out late. It's busy - safe. Sit downstairs on the bus, I sometimes see some antics but have never felt unsafe. S London.

Once you lose familiarity things begin to be more daunting.

Are you generally a bit depressed? Experiencing SAD in the winter months?

I have Picturehouse Membership and some Odeon thing and see lots of films at bargain prices, and love going to the cinema on my own - I go a lot in winter and hardly ever in summer.