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  • 101 things to do before you leave London

  • By Time Out editors


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    Watch the penguins being fed

    56 Loaf in a green-and-white deckchair in Green Park
    Green Park, W1. Green Park tube.

    57 Yelp at scary Victorian medical instruments
    Old Operating Theatre Museum & Herb Garret, 9a St Thomas St, SE1 (020 7188 2679/www.thegarret.org.uk). London Bridge tube/rail.

    58 Watch the penguins being fed
    At London Zoo, daily 2.30-3pm.
    London Zoo, Regent’s Park, NW1 (020 7722 3333/www.zsl.org/london-zoo). Camden Town tube or C2, 274 bus.

    59 See the anoraks fly radio-controlled planes on the Scrubs
    Wormwood Scrubs, Scrubs Lane, W10. Willesden Junction tube/rail. Feature continues

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    60 Walk under the Thames
    At Greenwich, via the (admittedly slightly whiffy) foot tunnel. Your best bet is a guided tour, organised by the Brunel Engine House Museum
    www.brunelenginehouse.org.uk

    61 Get squeamish at the Hunterian Museum
    Plenty of morbid exhibits in here. How about the brain of mathematician Charles Babbage? Or Churchill’s dentures?
    Hunterian Museum, Royal College of Surgeons, 35-43 Lincoln’s Inn Fields, WC2 (020 7869 6560/ ww.rcseng.ac.uk/museums). Holborn tube.

    62 Buy Japanese food in Brent
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    Not so much a shopping centre as a wild day out for lovers of eastern food. The Oriental City complex houses a Japanese confectioner, bakery and supermarket, as well as a pan-Asian food court.

    63 Tour Dennis Severs’ House by candlelight
    A ‘still life drama’, this house on Folgate Street is decked out to recreate snapshots of life in Spitalfields between 1724 and 1914. The atmospheric candlelit tours on Monday evenings cost £12.
    Dennis Severs’ House, 18 Folgate St, E1 (020 7247 4013/ www.dennissevershouse.co.uk). Liverpool St tube/rail.

    64 People-watch from Bar Italia
    There are few better spots than a table outside this classic café from which to watch Soho’s weird and wonderful walk, stagger, cartwheel or unicycle by.
    Bar Italia, 22 Frith St, W1 (020 7437 4520) Leicester Square, Piccadilly Circus or Tottenham Court Rd tube.

    65 Get up close to the deer in Richmond Park
    Richmond Park, Richmond, Surrey (www.royalparks.gov.uk). Richmond tube/rail.

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36 comments

  1. Posted by sarah on 10 Oct 2007 16:48

    It's a great site

  2. Posted by rayna_bum on 03 Sep 2007 04:17

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  3. Posted by Grace on 29 Jul 2007 13:01

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  4. Posted by Brad on 05 Dec 2006 22:28

    Brad is you possibly can, check the list of 101 things to do in London before you leave. Try get it printed out if you can. I think we should try to do as much as possible and create a scraptbook, hehe.

  5. Posted by Manuela on 17 Nov 2006 15:00

    I've lived in London for 2 years, will be back this Dec for a quick X-mas shopping and this is by far the BEST article EVER about this wonderful city :)
    Keep up the good work guys!

  6. Posted by Tom on 16 Nov 2006 16:44

    Time out was the first place I thought to look while organising a special day out for my girlfriend and me. Perfect for getting the most out of London. Thanks!

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