in London for a few weeks this summer...any ideas of cool places/things to do there?

I'm gonna be in London in August, to visit family.
I was there for 2 weeks last summer, and I hung out in Camden Town for a while. But I don't really know the city... I need some ideas of cool places to go, or things to do there..?

 

Camden is the ultimate cool place, but other cool markets include covent garden and portobello road. Also the parks, Hyde Park, St. James' park are pretty cool just to chill in.

 

Hmm well if you wanna do the tourist thing like buck palace and that then central london's your best bet.. markets, Camden.. St James's park is nice.

 

It really depends what you're interested in. Arts, music, shopping, historical architecture, museums, pubs, there's something for all tastes.

 

Take the tube to St James Wood. Go out of the tube station and look around. There'll probably be a road you should cross, then a road going straight on. Follow that road to the end. You'll see a traffic system with a kind of triangle with a three-road crossroad on your left, and on your right will be a zebra crossing.

That's the crossing from the Abbey Road album.

 

OOh, I've been there power! By accident, we got lost walking along Camden canal and ended up on some housing estate.

 

Get a boat tour on the river (duck tours or clippers), Go on a Jack the Ripper walk, Monopoly pub crawl, See Shakespeare at the Globe, try and make the guards laugh at Downing Street, get trampled on in Oxford Street, Paddle in the fountains at Trafalgar Square then climb on a Lion, see us play in Covent Garden, see Harrods and have Afternoon Tea at the Ritz.

 

go to Greenwich, find the milkshake place thats there, get a large milkshake, go and sit under a tree in the park

 

Go to Tooting Bec, exit on to a main road, turn right, walk 500 yards, sitting in the third doorway on the left is a guy called Steve. He owes me a fiver.

 

:smilielol5:

 

+1 The milkshake shop rules!

And while you're at Greenwich, go down the tunnel that goes under the Thames, that can be fun.

And walk along the Thames as well.

If you play guitar, go to Denmark St.

 

I went to that milkshake place today

 

Tell you what, start by getting the tube (Underground train) to St Johns Wood and you'll have a better chance of not getting hopelessly lost.

 

Fuck. I knew I got something wrong with that name, but just couldn't put my finger on it. Cheers

 

haha...I actually found that crossing by accident. One day last summer, I was walking to Camden, and got lost...I don't like asking for directions so I kept wandering around and trying to remember the directions my cousin gave me... just by coincidence, I ended up there.

Yes I do play guitar...What's Denmark St?

 

Get away from the usual tourist places. Brick Lane, Lower Edmonton at dusk and the Lea Valley viaduct, are all great places to go.
There is a lot of places I know that most tourists don't. Anyone heard of Cornmill Gardens? Anyone heard of Deptford Creek? No, then you will have a great time wading through silt on a walking group. They actually wade through the Creek. Amongst wildlife, ducks are common. Pigeons and the odd seagull are all common visitors.

 

Denmark St is a little sidestreet off Charing Cross Road near Centre Point that's full of music shops selling guitars and all kinds of gear. It's also home to a cool venue called the Twelve Bar Club. http://www.12barclub.com/

 

Damn roffa, that club sounds awesome.. gonna add it to my 'omg gotta visit when i gots time' list

 

Another good venue is the 100 club in Oxford St - they will host anything from trad jazz to 70s acid rock.

 

Thanks! I'm going to London tomorrow night.