Things I suggest doing in London, beyond the big obvious tourist sites like the British Museum and the Tower of London (which are very fine, if you think you'll enjoy them you're probably right):
--Going to the London Transport Museum
--Going to the Tate Modern
--Seeing theater, whatever looks good in Time Out that week
--Walking around Regent's Park
--Eating Indian food (really your best bet in a bleak culinary landscape)
--Not worrying about the fact that it's constantly drizzling
--Going to the supermarket and checking out the bizarre breakfast cereal
--Going to the British Library, my favorite small London museum. (It's no longer part of the British Library.). It's a fully functioning major research library, but it also has a museum wing, holding treasures like an amazing set of Bibles, various drafts of the Magna Carta, letters by Gandhi, original Beatles lyrics, and an original James Joyce notebook (with his handwriting spidering off at all angles on the page, like his sentences were drippings on a Jackson P. canvas). Really astonishing artifacts of the British Empire.
Hope that helps.
Posted by Gavin Edwards at April 25, 2001 11:23 AM