Hope you enjoyed finding all about London and its history. Try and plan your 24 hours in London and tell us about it. Maybe next year the Education Department will pay for us to put it into practice! Meanwhile have a look at these ready-made webquests to get some ideas.
posted by Geoff at
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Day trip to London!!
If I had only 24 hours left to visit London I would:
1.Take the underground to Oxford St and walk around Regent ST, Picadilly Circus,have a cup of tea in Covent Garden while listening the violin being played,down to Trafalgar Square, peep into the National Gallery, go to the river bankside and have a stroll to the Big Ben, Westminster Cathedral, go to St James Park and feed the squirrels and end the walk watching the Change of Guards in Buckingham Palace.
2.Lunch time:Have a sandwitch while chilling out in Hyde Park to get "Full of beans again" and go to Harrods to have a cup of Hot Chocolate at their fantastic chocolate bar after having spent an hour hanging around and visiting the food stores in there!
3.Afternoon:get the underground to Candem Town and walk around the shops. Lear how to play African drums there for half an hour.
4. Evening: Go to see the "Chicago" at the Cambridge theatre and afterwards have something to eat at any of the restaurants in china Town.
5. Night: have a beer to chill out in a pub in the Soho.
6. Time to go to sleep???
I'm already tired after so much sightseing!!!!
If I had 24 hours to visit Londonm first of all I would visit the place I lived when I was a student at 83 Onslow Gardens.Then I would like to visit the exhibition "Surreal Things: Surrealism and Design" at the Victoria and Albert Museum. After that I would like to travel by bus to Trafalgar Square and walk around to Picadilly Circus. Then I would have lunch at the Benihana, a Japanese restaurant in Picadilly. Later I would go to Hyde Park for a rest and row for a while in the Serpentine.
In the afternoon I would like to visit the Tate Modern by the tube till Blackfriars Station.
After that I would go for a walk next to the river and cross the Waterloo bridge walk by Queens Path and Thames Path and have a flight on the London Eye.
Later I would like to go to the theatre. Now they play A Midsummer Night's Dream at the Open Air Theatre in Regent’s park near Baker Street so I would take the tube at Waterloo (the grey lane) to Baker Street.
After the play I would eat something in the street and I liked going to a pub for a good Guiness. By the way I think I would be very tired now so I’d better going to my luxury hotel near Kengsington Gardens, the Milestone hotel to have a very romantic night.
Good night!
Twenty four non-stop hours in London seems a long day. But it isn’t. I’ve had to do a selection and I think I’m leaving some interesting places behind.
Let’s start in Hyde Park (Lancaster gate –Metropolitan Line) and a nice morning walk around the Serpentine. Take a look on thousands of yellow daffodils along the path trough Hyde Park Corner (Piccadilly Line).
London Tower (Tower Hill –Circle Line). Interesting to hear (and to see) the old story of this castle and all the famous people that loose their head among its walls.
From here you can go on foot to the London Dungeon, just walking over London Bridge. If you like frightening stories like Jack “the ripper” or know more about the torture methods used by the British in the Tower of London, you can not missed this museum.
At this time you can get hungry. You can go to St. Katharine’s Dock (you can go on foot over the London Bridge again). There is a pub called Dickens’s Inn in where you can find very good food and an “interesting” collection of London beers.
In the afternoon you’ve got plenty of places to go shopping, like Covent Garden (Piccadilly Line), King’s Road in Chelsea (Sloan Square –District Line) or Brompton Road (Knightsbridge –Piccadilly Line).
But if you prefer walking around don't miss Kew Garden (Royal Botanic Garden in Richmond (District Line) or Greenwich Park, crossing the Thames by the famous 19th century tunnel built deep under the river from Island Gardens (Dockland Light Railway).
In the evening you’ve got hundreds of restaurants to choose in the Soho (Tottenham Court Road –Northern Line) but I like the Indian and Greek ones.
After dinner we can go for a Pub crawl, a long Pub crawl! I like a lot a pub in Lewisham (Catford) called Fox and Forking in which people sing British songs with a piano player live.
After that ... a disco (Hipodrome, Electric Ball Room)or... probably some rest!
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