However well you know London, there's always more to be uncovered. New events and attractions, or familiar buildings or vistas seen from a different angle. A stroll across Waterloo Bridge or dinner after dark in St. James's Park; a canal walk in Camden or a glass of champagne from the top of a city skyscraper. Discover a secret garden in Chelsea, take a lifeboat ride on the Thames; eat a bagel in Golders Green, fly a kite on Hampstead Heath; spend a morning in Billingsgate market, an afternoon in Battersea Park zoo. Packed with ideas from unusual takes on well-known attractions to quirky walks and must-visit restaurants and shops; from once-in-a-lifetime experiences to everyday pleasures - many of them absolutely free. We'll show you how to fall for London all over again.
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"Be spoilt for choice with this thorough guide" -- Eve
"Even if you think you know London really well there's bound to be something in [1000 Things] you never knew" -- Evening Standard
"Typically frank and quirky in style" -- Observer
"You'll never be stuck for interesting things to do and places to visit in the capital" -- The Independent on Sunday
"Even if you think you know London really well there's bound to be something in [1000 Things] you never knew" -- Evening Standard
"Typically frank and quirky in style" -- Observer
"You'll never be stuck for interesting things to do and places to visit in the capital" -- The Independent on Sunday
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By M_Beatrice
This truly is a guide for both tourists and Londonders alike - it shows London from a new, exciting and unconventional perspective. You will find many places and activities you never knew existed as well as familiar spots which you can visit and enjoy as if for the first time. No matter what kind of person you are - arty, adventurous, sporty, hedonistic etc - you will find new ways to indulge yourself. And for those of you who are thinking of places to take your date or your friend from abroad - here you will find lots of new ideas that will make your day out fabulously memorable. This guide definitely turns London into a real treat.
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By A. Gonzalez
Nobody does London like TimeOut does it, and this... is one of their very finest guides. Don't expect the conventional, nor a practical guide with geographical orientations. Instead imagine opening a very large antique furniture chest with unknown contents that you've accidentally come across; where all sorts of wonderful, most curious, occasionally even very useful little items can be haphazardly found inside. This has been for me the experience of using this book, to which I refer again and again and again even though, or because, I'll never do everything that's in it.
This is not at all the book for the first-time visitor on a weekend break, perhaps not even for their first week. Those people should head for a more traditional London-guide title. But past that first week in London, or in their second visit, and even if they decide to stay and live in this city for years, this book will give you all the reasons to either feel exhilarated and proud to be a Londoner, or to wish you were one, or at least to have you wanting to come back again for more. It may possibly represent one of the best and most comprehensive arguments constructed in the early XXI century to keep supporting the case in favour of Samuel Johnson's most famous adage: When a man is tired of London, he is tired of life. There go 1000 examples.
This is not at all the book for the first-time visitor on a weekend break, perhaps not even for their first week. Those people should head for a more traditional London-guide title. But past that first week in London, or in their second visit, and even if they decide to stay and live in this city for years, this book will give you all the reasons to either feel exhilarated and proud to be a Londoner, or to wish you were one, or at least to have you wanting to come back again for more. It may possibly represent one of the best and most comprehensive arguments constructed in the early XXI century to keep supporting the case in favour of Samuel Johnson's most famous adage: When a man is tired of London, he is tired of life. There go 1000 examples.
2 of 2 people found the following review helpful
I have lived in London a few years now, and I love being able to find the really interesting and off the wall things to do in this fab city. I bought this book for a friend, and then spent the next 2 days buried in it myself, and I started to write down ideas to take back to me. After 5 pages of my notes on the book, I decided it would be far simpler to get myself a copy!
it lists everything from places to eat, to museums you'cve probably never heard of, together with lots of free activities and it isn't expecially aimed at tourists which is refreshing. A really different take on London and I'm a big fan.
it lists everything from places to eat, to museums you'cve probably never heard of, together with lots of free activities and it isn't expecially aimed at tourists which is refreshing. A really different take on London and I'm a big fan.
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This book is great for finding unusual things to do in London as well as the usual.
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I have lived in London for thirty years and I only know a third of the places in this book. Packed full of unexpected suggestions and well researched summaries. Read more
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