London

• Listen to classical music by candlelight at St. Martin-in-the-Fields
• Make a call from London's famous first red phone box
• ✔ Spend a day thrilling my senses with scones, clotted cream, cucumber sandwiches, aromatic infusions, pink bubbles and dollops of cabaret
• Survive a royal gun salute
• ✔ Visit Little Ben
• Take a gander at swan upping on the Thames
• ✔ Take in a show at the Globe Theater

places

• ✔ the royal observatory | blackheath avenue greenwich, SE10 8XJ; open daily from 10.00 to 17.00 with the last admission at 16.30; admission is £10 for adults and concessions are £7.50
• ✔ doctor who exhibition london | london olympia; open daily from 10.00 to 18.00; admission is £15.50 for adults in advance at off-peak
• ✔ the london eye | riverside building county hall SE1 7PB; open daily from 10.00 to 21.00; admission is £18 with lower prices when booked online
• science museum | exhibition road, SW7 2DD; open daily from 10.00 to 18.00; entry is free except for special exhibits
• ✔ the tower of london | tower hill, EC3N 4AB; open tuesday through saturday from 09.00 to 18.00 and 10.00 to 18.00 on all other days; admission is £19 with reduced admission for online booking in advance
• ✔ british museum | great russell streat, WC1B 3DG; open daily from 10.00 to 17.30; admission is free
• the london zoo | regent's park, NW1; open daily at 10.00; admission is £18
• ✔ platform 9 3/4 | King's Cross, N1 9AP
• hunterian museum | 35 lincoln's inn fields, WC2A 3PE; open tuesday through saturday from 10.00 to 17.00; the guidebook is £5
• the petrie museum | malet place, bloomsbury, university college, london, WC1E 6BT; open tuesday through saturday from 13.00 to 17.00; admission is free (tube: euston square tube via circle)