St Martin-in-the-Fields for classical music.

https://www.stmartin-in-the-fields.org/

It's church with lots of great concerts, including Jazz Nights
Join us for some of London’s finest jazz and live music in the Café in the Crypt.

assault a woman years ago. He is as unusual as they get.

which is a short train ride outside of London.

I love the London Walks tours and always tried to do at least one every time I visited London. I did the Spies and Spymasters one twice. I saw Freddie Mercury's house on another walk. You never know what you might learn on a walk. I loved the Hampstead Heath walk.

I love Bath and never passed up on a chance to visit that city. It is an easy day trip by train.

Have you checked to see if there are any special exhibits going on? I lucked out in the past and saw a Lord of the Rings exhibit, James Bond exhibit, Dr Who exhibit and Faberge exhibit.

Check Leister Square to see if there are any movie premiere while you are there. There might be an opportunity for star watching.

The one thing that I regretted was never getting into Parliament to watch the Prime Minister being questioned. I also wish that I had explored the South part of London more.

If you are a reader it be fun to explore the used book stores. I always hit both new and used bookstores to find books that I can't find here.

google 2018 Proms concerts for info.

Really nice event

I've always enjoyed walking through neighborhoods and looking at the buildings. That's also a good way to find off-the-beaten track pubs.

This was a while ago, but I did a walking tour of some historic sites in the East End.

That's pretty unusual.

An alternate tube (subway) system that was used to distribute mail throughout central London. It is fairly unusual. I have not done the tour on the little trains, but have watched an interesting doc on it.

October you start getting the new theatre season and major concerts. Lot of special events at the museums and galleries. The National Portrait has the Michael Jackson exhibits through 21 Oct. Lots of other interesting things there including concerts, even a special disco.

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Hope to get back there some day. Just google that phrase and you’ll come up with something.

https://www.timeout.com/london/things-to-do/quirky-and-unusual-things-to-do-in-london

Tower of London

If you into history and finding stuff on the Thames river back during low tide.

Go into their humidor room and take a deep breath---pure heaven. Then walk across the street to the big Fortnum & Mason store, to see a stunning selection of gourmet groceries---F&M has been keeping the royal family well-fed for centuries. Enjoy.

and museum.

Ends in a pub.

Quite the Brit experience! Have fun, I love London!

run into. Of course there are the plays in the West End, but I guess that is kind of touristy, but always worth it. There was this little cafe I went to in Little Venice/Maida Vale that was right over the canal so you could watch the boats come and go. It's called Cafe Laville. It was very enjoyable on a nice day.

If you have the time, taking a little side trip to the Cotswolds was lovely. I would allow at least two days. You can drive (about 90 mins - 2 hours) or take the train to Moreton-on-Marsh and then take car service to the other towns - we stayed in Chipping Campden and then took a local bus to other towns such as Broadway, Stow-on-the-Wold and Lower Slaughter.

Hope you have a great time! I love London - you will have to tell us all about your trip when you come back!

Take the train out to the Warner Brothers Studio. It's the actual lot and buildings where they filmed the movies. The sets are there as well as many of the original costumes. We went with our adult daughters in 2016 and spent over 3 hours there. You do need to buy a ticket in advance and make a reservation.

https://www.wbstudiotour.co.uk/

premiere for the first Harry Potter movie in London. Okay, I walked by not knowing what it was until later. Heck, the British even celebrated my birthday, albeit a day late, with fireworks and parties or it could have been about someone named Guy Fawkes.

Go to a pub in Manchester, don't drink or fight over football.

It's a well-written, well-researched look at early London with lots of info on many places that are still standing and how they came to be. It's long but at least get through the chapters leading up to Elizabethan time. Knowing how all these places came about and some of the people who lived through it made a connection for me and made me want to go back and exlore.

Of course, the scene has changed a lot in the last ten years.

If you have the budget, spend a day at Harrod's. There's just EVERYTHING there, even if all you end up doing is having an overpriced snack on the ground level.

A LOT of bands from the 1960s and 1970s are reforming and touring for nostalgia lovers. I saw the Hollies outside of London some 20 years ago. Graham Nash was gone, of course, but they still sounded fabulous, and I hadn't seen them live since 1967. Check the listings. For that matter, I saw Graham Nash last year in the States, and he sounded wonderful, too. Not bad for a guy in his mid-seventies. But he lives in Hawaii now, and so isn't likely to be doing a solo tour in the UK. But the Moody Blues, Stevie Winwood, Herman's Hermits and a LOT of others are still (or, in some cases, again) performing live concerts.

I have never been to Edinburgh, but my daughter said it was a joy to visit, and if you can find one of those super-fast express trains that gets you there in four hours or less, I'd seriously consider running up there one morning, spending the night, and returning to London the next evening. This is assuming you haven't already done that, too!

Although London is only an hour from me, I rarely go up there, maybe once every five years or so. I'm sure others here can give you better advice. Cities like Prague, Munich, Zürich, Vienna, Paris, Basel, Kraków, Berlin and Copenhagen are more or less the same amount of time from us by air, and just hold more attraction for us (my wife is German).

and see the Mary Rose or D-Day museum.

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