A challenge for anyone who knows London

[PeatBog]

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?

big yes to the thames bArrier

Have you climbed right up to the top of St Pauls, pausing to do the Whispering Gallery on the way?

Right, it looks like:

flowers at Columbia Rd
brunch at nearby cafe
Geffrye Museum
then head west for tea at Browns
then change somewhere for cocktails at Claridges/Ritz
and I have to say I'm liking the sound of Scotts for dinner

Trips with children: Parliament Hill with kites, boat trip to Greenwich and Wetlands, as they don't remember going.

Have recently done opera and ballet drooling over him

oh, and on my own to the Wallace Collection, because I haven't been for ages.

Am getting quite at prospect of leaving now ...

I alomost entirely agree with bundle, which is nice cos ~i like 'er

I'd tweak it so mine would be like this:

Columbia road on Sunday folowed by a trwl round Spitalfields

mooch around Liberty's, and Soho in general I

Sail up the river Thames from Tate to Tate (and obviously visit both)

see an ballet

and of course - visit Portobello market and have lunch or dinner in Osteria Bascillica

Go clubbing, somewhere like Fabric followed by drinks in a bar round Hoxton.

Have a thai meal

Oh your a cocktails at Claridges sort of a gal, ok strike off my clubbing / Hoxton idea.

A last trip round Camden market?

Oh actually that's probably not you either.

Columbia Rd is just heaven though.

peatbog - verrry interestink, may have to sample your route, though I hope that you am not fool enough to avoid the Movillis Wonder That Is The M6 Toll?

If you end up in Glasgow you will have to come and join us here. There are even some folk from Embru on it too.

Oh and a Sunday fry-up in the workers' cafe on Upper Street. With the papers, natch. Which you will have bought on the way home from Out the night before.

Thomcat, I would just look sad and old in Fabric now . But I appreciate from where you are coming.

Perhaps we could squeeze in another day of just reading newspapers in cafes. You see, really it's just yearning for those carefree days Before Children.

Midnight, I luuuurrrve the M6 Toll in a capitalist-tart kinda way. It's so smooooooth... and empty... and the bends are just so.

I bet you've not been to salsa at Wessex House or Bar Rez have you? Gotta do it!

Have you done Highgate Cemetery yet?

Breakfast at The Wolesley
Columbia Rd Flower Mkt. Sun. AM
Walk down regents canal frm Angel to Victoria Park, hackney
Spitalfields Mkt. Sat AM
Borogh Mkt.
Eat at Gordon Ramsey's Claridges

yes, did Highgate Cemetery first year here. It was all misty too. But you are right about Wessex House and Bar Rez. Though strictly I guess we could do salsa in Embra or Glasgow, wherever we end up.

but everyone knows that you don't get salsa dancers like London salsa dancers

Another thing you've not done is had LDC at mine!

Not sure Wimbledon counts as London proper, but I don't think you've lived until you've been to the All-England Club to watch some tennis.

...and of course you'll already be practising this I expect?

MarsLady, pleeze to translate!

Lemon Drizzle Cake!

Midnight, I'm looking more at this

London's Victorian Cemeteries

(aaaaaaah the memories)

Highgate
St Pancras
Dulwich

and the original and best:
Kensal Green

Well obviously, yes. We all do that up here instead of salsa.

I'm going to have to bow out as hair is in desperate state and I need to get the hot water before DH does, but please keep suggestions coming. Then I just have to arrange a week's holiday so that we can do it all.

If you're going to Columbia Rd then have lunch at the Cafe in The Hackney City farm on Hackney Rd (about 1 min frm Columbia Rd.) Really lovely food, very family friendly and lots of farm animals to wander round looking at afterwards.!!!

There are a few recommendations for Little Venice. How about a canal boat there from Camden?
Another vote for climbing either ST Pauls or The Monument.
Go and cheer on The Moonwalk on the night of May 17th. Truly the most amazing sight.

Posey and coochy, good suggestions. Someone else mentioned the Monument, and I've always loved the look of it. Is the Moonwalk the one for breast cancer?

Something to do with your dcs, if you haven't already, is go to Coram's Fields - no adults allowed unless accompanied by children - tis fab and a small miracle in the centre of London!

link here

Also: on a weekday go through the Inns of Court - you can get in through the gate in Deveraux Court, off Essex Street, (just by the Edgar Wallace pub - ah memories!) and have a lovely wander about - the Templars church (as seen in the Da Vinci code) is there too.

That looks great, lovecat, thanks. There is so much here and it's going to be difficult choosing! Still, it's not as though we'll never come back.

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