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 Covent Garden Hotel by sue_stone
The cinema is pretty luxurious in design and has extremely comfortable leather seats
You can hire it for private screenings, or go along to some of their advertised screening nights.
We had a meal at the Hotel, and then enjoyed a screening of Gold Finger.
Covent Garden Hotel
10 Monmouth Street London WC2H 9HB
Nearest Tube: Covent Garden Leave a Comment
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 Munsons by sue_stone
Munsons is a small cafe located off the beaten path in Ealing, West London.
They have a reputation in the area for having the best coffee in London - and it sure is good!!
They also serve fabulous home made cakes and delicious anti-pasto and sandwiches.
If you find yourself in this area of London, it is worth a stop .
Munsons
71a St. Marys Rd
Ealing
London
W5 5RG Leave a Comment
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 mini doorway by sue_stone
There is a path that follows the Thames, with the river on one side and homes on the other.
Some of the houses along here are a little different - they have really short front doors!! There are steps up to the door - but it looks pretty crazy!
I guess it is because they are only about 2-3 metres from the water, and if the river floods then they won't get wet carpet....
Walk along the Thames Footpath, near Strand on the Green, Chiswick.
Nearest Tube: Gunnersbury
Nearest Train: Kew Bridge Leave a Comment
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If you happen to be travelling on a District Line tube through Gloucester Road underground station, make sure you have a look out the window, or even get off the train and catch the next one.
Why? Well, so that you can see the art exhibition of course!
One of the stranger places I have seen an art exhibition, Gloucester Road tube station hosts four exhibitions per year on a disused platform on the District and Circle line.
Thousands of passengers each month travel past the exhibition, where you can see a range of work by both lesser known and well established artists.
I have heard of people making the journey to Gloucester Road just to see the exhibitions. Leave a Comment
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 inner temple by willy_wonkaLeave a Comment
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Gordon's wine bar is the kind of place most visitors stumble across by accident - but only if they are lucky! Tucked away in Villiers street, the unassuming, dark, dingy frontage give the passer by the impression that this drinking establishment went out of business years ago.. don't be fooled - it is only masking an even darker and even dingier bar beneath the busy street!
Underneath Kipling House, where Samuel Pepys and Rudyard Kipling lived and Francis Bacon was born, you enter via the steps where you will find yourself in something out of a Dickens novel - the decor is brown smoke stained walls pasted with old yellowing newspapers and arches so low anyone over 5'2" must stoop to find a table. Much of the seating area has no electricity - just candles - and that low, menacing rumbling you hear every so often is the trains coming in and out of Charing Cross. On rainy days, the black walls drip heavily, so watch where you put your coats and bags.
They have a fine selection of wines from around the world and the barman really knows his wines and will be able to help. They only have German wines occasionally though - and when they do they are a Riesling produced in Australia! Oh well - we settled for a Medium Dry South African at £3.50 for a small glass.
They do food as well for about £7 a meal - for example, ploughmans (bread, cheese, salad or salmon or pasta etc etc)- and there is an outside seating area - but with an interior with more character than any wine bar in London who wants to sit outside?? Leave a Comment Phone: 0-207 930 1408
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 Spitalfields Market,
Commercial Street, London. by planxty
Chaotic and interesting as it was, it really couldn't continue, and the market moved to a suburb in Leyton in 1991. The beautiful building (completed in 1893) remained, however, and what to do with it?
With a foresight not normally associated with planners in London, Spitalfields has now re-invented itself as a great market for all kinds of things, not merely fruit and veg.
It is well worth a visit , especially on a Sunday (the busiest day) when you can buy anything from Greek Orthodox religious icons through second hand books and rare records to very fine organic sausages!
I thoroughly recommend it.
It is situated in Commercial Street E1 and the nearest tubes (underground / metro) are Liverpool Strret and Aldgate East (about equidistant). It is open Mon-Fri 11am-3pm & Sun 9.30am-5.30pm.
It is right opposite the Ten Bells public house (see seperate off the beaten track page) and a mere five minutes walk from Petticoat lane market (see tourist trap page) and right in Jack the Ripper country, so you can combine a couple of things in this very historic area. Leave a Comment
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If I lived to be 100 years old I know I will still never see and do everything there is to see and do in London. That's what makes it such an exciting city. Thanks goes to my VT friend Jo104 who told me about this place in Shoreditch, East London, otherwise I would have been none the wiser and missed a little hidden gem.
The Geffrye museum is unique because it is the ONLY museum dedicated to furniture and the domestic interiors of the urban middle class in the UK. Dating from 1600 through to the present day, there are displays of "rooms" - living rooms in particular - showing how people decorated their personal living space. Every minute detail has been carefully reconstructed to look as authentic as possible. At the moment each room has been decorated for Christmas and it was quite strange seeing a 60's lounge which reminded me of Christmases at home as a child.
The Geffrye museum was originally the site of Ironmonger's Alms houses but Sir Robert Geffrye transformed it into a museum dedicated to furniture to inspire the furniture makers whose workshops proliferated in the area at the time.
The museum is about 3/4 of a mile walk from Liverpool Street Station. You can also take a bus 67, 149, 242, 243, and 394. Entry is free and there is a restaurant.
Opening times:
Tues-Sat 10.00am-5pm
Sundays and Bank Holidays 12-5pm
Closed Mondays (unless it's a Bank Holiday), Good Friday, Christmas Eve, Christmas Day, and New Year's Day. Leave a Comment
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 Temple Church-London by shutterlust
The very special thing about this church takes place on Sundays 11:15am. The choral mattins, sung by the Temple Church's own all-boy/men choir. 12 men and 18 boys, most AMAZING voices ever.
This is also where I met my friend Sir John and his wife Betty. I love Temple Church and the surrounding Inns of Court and this is my plug to you all: Check out Temple Church. Attend a Sunday Choral Mattins (or a lunchtime concert, held on Wednesdays at 1:15PM) or check out the Temple Gardens during the week around lunchtime. The church is beautiful and their preacher/semon-person/priest (called "master") is one of the best rhetoricians I know. Reverend Robin-Griffith Jones, Reverent and Valiant Master of the Temple, is one of the sweetest, smartest men I know and he's recently released his book on the DaVinci Code, debunking the unfounded 'facts' in the book. (Don't get me wrong, I loved the book, but just go to one of the Master's talks and he will win you over. I promise!)
I love the Temple Church dearly, I've been attending the services for over a year and I go back whenever I can. I just ask that people who are coming to visit the church, respect the fact that students are studying for their bar exam there and that the Church takes great pains to allow tourists to come into the Inner/Middle Temple area. Feel free to take your pictures, but not during services. If you come for the services, remember that the Church is primarily a place of God and not a tourist site. Please dress appropriately to services and if you want to come to the church but not the service, please wait quietly outside.
Otherwise, enjoy your visit to the Temple Church! :-) And I hope you end up loving it as much as I do, regardless of the book. Leave a Comment
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