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our london adventure: part two

more wandering around london town, with occasional jaunts elsewhere...

19 February 2009

Pining for Porto

Well, at least we had the good sense before we left Porto to buy a few tarts and a box of miniaturas to bring back to London! While we definitely missed the sights of Porto today, at least we had Portuguese sweets with our morning tea to console us.

today was 19.2.09

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beyond london

what can you do in london without spending a single pence?

*acquire some new furniture
*be in both hemispheres at the same time
*be outwitted by the sidewalk
*be surrounded by butterflies
*become a puppeteer
*bring home some new books
*browse in a beautiful travel bookshop
*check out ingenious automata
*cheer on the pancake racers
*climb a 13th-century church tower
*crowd onto Millennium Bridge with classical musicians and a conductor
*cruise on the Thames, taking in the sunset
*cuddle farm animals in the shadow of a financial centre
*dance with the ballerinas
*do a double-take at anthropomorphic skyscrapers in a tube station
*dodge horses in Tate Modern
*drink coffee in a sunny garden
*eat donuts while standing inside a 55-foot-tall sculpture
*eat some performance art
*enjoy secret art
*experience sensory deprivation in the name of art
*explore artists' studios in a church
*find grass where there was once concrete
*find yourself in the role of Alice
*flip through magazines and sip delicious coffee
*gaze at St Paul's Cathedral through a 300-year-old protected view
*gaze over the City from a 23rd-floor terrace
*get caught up in piano
*get up-close with the artefact that enabled 19th-century scholars to decipher Egyptian hieroglyphs
*go on a Chelsea pub walk
*go on a guided walk of the City
*go to a writer's talk held at the organization credited with coining the term "sustainability"
*go to an in-store performance
*have a brush with wildlife
*have a cigarette hand you a leaflet
*have a day in the country
*have a picnic in a 300-year-old apple orchard
*have a transport official instruct you to litter
*have brunch with the London Sinfonietta
*have coffee at the Danish ambassador's house
*have tea and biscuits in Trafalgar Square
*have tea with the evil twins
*hear an Academy-Award-nominated writer speak
*hear an amazingly talented woman read from her latest book
*hear Beethovan sonatas in a church
*hear music in the only Elizabethan church remaining in London
*hope that sword-swallower knows what he's doing
*join an evening parade
*join in on bonfire night
*journey through Christmas past
*learn about your neighbourhood
*let a blue-badge guide lead you around the City
*let light and sound transfix you
*lick an ice-cream cone
*listen to a prominent architect and then fill up on food and drink
*make a statue move
*make shadow puppets with a twist
*meet a gorilla in Notting Hill
*pat a pelican
*play a gas organ
*play on the slides in a former power station
*play voyeur to people's discarded lives
*pledge allegiance to Tesco
*putter down a canal on a narrowboat
*receive wishes of good luck from a Palme-d'Or -winning director
*relax in an outdoor living room made of artificial turf
*rest on a bench in an outdoor installation by the only woman to receive the Pritzker Prize
*reveal your secrets
*ride the London Eye
*see a cashpoint machine like no other
*see a Jeff Koons sculpture in the open air
*see a painting be brought to life
*see a squash that weighs 900 lb
*see artists in their studios
*see how quickly sheep are shorn
*see Lenin's office
*see litter from the Thames become art
*see plates designed by Frank Lloyd Wright
*see red phone boxes pretend to be dominoes
*see Seth Cohen's favourite band
*see someone with the feet of a man, but the head of a puppet
*see the only Daniel Libeskind building in London
*see the queen's handwriting
*see the thinnest pub in London
*see the world's oldest dated carpet
*see what a MacArthur-certified "genius" can do with yarn
*see where the Big Ben bell was made
*see where Twelfth Night was first performed
*sing and play along with Billy Bragg
*sip mulled wine and eat mince pies in a church crypt
*sit in on an orchestra rehearsal
*smell buildings made of soap
*spiral down the government
*tour a derelict power station
*tour the Government Art Collection
*tour the world's oldest surviving grand music hall
*transform yourself into a matryoshka doll
*try not to fall into the crack
*try to catch cheese napping
*try to commit the human genetic code to memory
*try to figure out if it's art or playtime (or both)
*try to find all the metal men
*try to sort out the truth from the lies
*turn newspaper into performance art
*visit the oldest residential house in Hackney
*visit the oldest riverside pub in London
*vote (even if you're not a UK citizen)
*walk along the canal
*walk inside the disused oil tanks at Tate Modern
*walk the streets of chelsea, wondering if you're the only sane person left
*walk through a flat devoid of furniture, but full of edges
*walk through a tunnel filled with stencil art
*walk under a canopy of kiwi fruit
*wander through an overgrown cemetery
*watch a film with bears (in the room, not in the film)
*watch a fountain cry
*watch a silent disco
*watch comedians try to find the truth
*watch computer animation made before 1980
*watch films in a canal tunnel
*watch people dance on a carpet of icing sugar
*watch soccer in an opera house
*watch the moon turn red
*witness taxi driving transform into art
*wonder how your neighbourhood managed to get so busy

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