The 50 best free activities in London

Source: The Independent
Dated: Saturday, 24 January 2004
(Details were checked at the time of going to press but are liable to change.)
 
Best children's places
Horniman Museum
Geffrye Museum
Natural History Museum
Museum of Childhood
National Army Museum
National Gallery
Science Museum
Fulham Palace
Visit a nature reserve
Theatre museum

Best cultural pursuits
BBC radio and television audience tickets
Recitals in city churches
Visiting the House of Commons
Changing of the guard
An auction at Christie's
Brixton Market
Films at the British Museum
Salsa dancing
Royal Opera House lunchtime recitals
Swiss Centre glockenspiel clock extravaganza

Best museums/galleries
Tate Britain
Sir John Soane's Museum
Wallace Collection
Victoria and Albert Museum
Museum of London
The Women's Library
National Portrait Gallery
Imperial War Museum
Photographers' gallery
Bank of England Museum

Best outdoor activities
Explore Richmond
Rambling on Hampstead Heath
Join an urban run
Outside swimming at Highgate Ponds
Put your best foot forward
Roller-skating
Fly a kite
Get on your bike
Rugby in Battersea Park and old Deer Park
Skateboarding

Best urban walks
Houses of Parliament to St Paul's Cathedral
Tower Bridge to St Anne's Church, Limehouse
Greenwich to West India Docks
Kenwood to Highgate Cemetery and back
Chiswick House to Fulham Palace
The Tyburn Trail
In the footsteps of William Shakespeare
Hampton Court palace gardens and Bushy Park
Primrose Hill to All Soul's Church, Langham Place
Trains and boats and planes

The panel

Peter Harden is the founder, with his brother Richard, of Harden's Guides, publisher of Harden's London for Free. Ronnie Haydon is the editor of Time Out London for Children. Amy Lamé is the arts correspondent for BBC London 94.9fm, and is appearing in the current series of Celebrity Fit Club on ITV1. Jane Peyton is the author of Looking up in London (John Wiley, £12.99) and devised the urban walks for this feature. Joanna Robinson is director of Sport England, London region. She aims to provide opportunities for all Londoners to be more physically active.

Bflygal's comment:
I guess I can't resist not storing this list... London, Sydney and Tasmania, and maybe Hong Kong and Macau... these are places that I want to visit next as promised...
I must believe... but for now, I must continue to be patient...