A challenge for anyone who knows London

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DH and I have lived in London for 33 years between us and now we're moving back to Scotland ()

We smugly like to think that we've done pretty much everything we'd want to in London, but ...

Can anyone suggest anything we should do before we drive out on the M40 for the last time ever on July 12?

Cabinet War Rooms ?

I would suggest tea at the Ritz but Jenners is better tbh.

HMS Belfast?

Sir John Soanes museum!

Have you done the cheesy open top bus tour? Very few Londoners (or honoraries!) have. You know you want to! {grin}

Fortnums for tea
or Claridges ?
Go up the tower at the Green Dragon Steam Museum in Brentford
see the Russian church in Chiswick

Museum of London is good

Westminster Cathedral (not Abbey)

the Geffrye Museum

Design Museum?

Dinner at Le Gavroche
A meal at the Skylon in the Festival Hall
Catch a show at THE rising venue, The Menier in the Southwark
Drop in on the Gamelan Room also at the Festival Hall
See the steam up at one of the Open Days for the Crossness Sewage Works' fantastic Victorian engines
Sup champagne at St Pancras International

Climb The Monument

hornes museum in dulwich

swim in the Serpentine

Thinking of it. I have lived and worked in London for 27 years and have never...

Visited the Tower of London....despite working opposite for 10 years
Been to Harvey Nics, Hamleys, Ritz....
Done an open tour bus ride
Been on a Duc Tour
Been on the London Eye
Visited ALL of the places above

And I always moan I'm bored. I Pratically live on the District Line!!!!

Sorry no advice....Maybe get good tickets for a show at ITV. We saw Ant and Dec last Autumn.

Read Emma Mahoney's article in Monday's Times called 'stuck in the sticks'. sorry, couldn't work out the link but its a good read if anyone is contemplating moving OUT!

Gosh Marina's list is good.

If you're brave enough, do a Duck Tour in one of the WWII amphibious vehicles - tourist London in an incomparable (incomparably scary, now I look back on it - can't quite believe I took not-quite-two-year-old dd on that) way.

If your children (or any of them) are old enough, do an overnight sleepover experience in the British Museum Egyptian rooms, or the Golden Hinde, or one of the other places that do that.

Go to one of those (dire-sounding) Baby Loves Disco events, so that when they spread to Scotland you can be all blasé.

Drive, on a Saturday afternoon, down something like the Old Kent Road (make up a destination which is a LONG WAY); make sure your children are quite hungry before you start, and do not bring anything to entertain them. Do this on July 10th, when you have finished packing. When after a number of hours you get to the destination you chose, burst into tears of relief and joyful anticipation of Scotland.

mwamwa - I found that article very irritating - she seemed a bit of a wuss - it's not like that,or doesn't need to be like that in the country !

don't forget the Wetlands Centre in Barnes

Oh yes...wetlands are free for kids at moment I believe......NOT that I have ever been there!!

cor blimey missus!

well, let's see.

Have seen Belfast, been on duck bus, John Soanes museum, design museum, Claridges and Ritz for cocktails (not done tea, but Jenners clearly better!) Have swum in Serpentine, been to West.Cathedral (used to work nearby), Wetlands

Have not done Cabinet War Rooms, Monument or Menier - nor, indeed, the Sewage Works steam days , nor Hornes Museum. DCs too small for sleepovers (but they will be on sleeper up to Scotland when we're driving up)

Bink, like the idea ...

Been to a mumsnet party

KewGardens ... I'm a world heritage site now you know.

Have dinner at Scotts
Go horse riding in the Lea Valley/ Hyde Park
Spend a Sunday afternoon wandering around Spitalfields market/ Brick Lane
Go to a summer concert at Somerset House
Go on a ghost walk through the City of London
Climb Parliament Hill
Second the cheesy open top bus tour and frog tour as well!

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