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London on a Sunday 20:37 - Jul 28 with 5366 viewslatchford

Looking for tips/ideas on what area to spend an afternoon in London this Sunday. I'm there Sunday and Monday with my Mrs and twins who are babies. Staying in Kensington but will be able to drive wherever with no congestion charge on the Sunday. Like Camden but may be too busy with twins.
Any ideas would be appreciated.
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London on a Sunday on 20:40 - Jul 28 with 4232 viewsDarran

Go for a stroll in the park and see the recently refurbished Albert Memorial.

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London on a Sunday on 20:42 - Jul 28 with 4223 viewsMurph75

Get yourself a big bag of Columbian marching powder and head to Soho. Obviously you'll need to leave the Misses behind to look after the kids.
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London on a Sunday on 20:51 - Jul 28 with 4198 viewslatchford

Hyde Park?
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London on a Sunday on 20:52 - Jul 28 with 4195 viewsmikecranleigh

There's a cycle race through London this weekend
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London on a Sunday on 20:53 - Jul 28 with 4185 viewsDarran

London on a Sunday on 20:51 - Jul 28 by latchford

Hyde Park?


Kensington Gardens.

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London on a Sunday on 20:55 - Jul 28 with 4182 viewsJackfath

London on a Sunday on 20:52 - Jul 28 by mikecranleigh

There's a cycle race through London this weekend


Enter the cycle race.

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London on a Sunday on 20:57 - Jul 28 with 4180 viewsWarwickHunt

Forget driving - c*nting b@stard f*cking cyclist cûntbubbles are having a "race" through London and Surrey and half the f*cking roads will be closed.

https://www.prudentialridelondon.co.uk/info-hub/road-closures/

C*nts.
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London on a Sunday on 20:58 - Jul 28 with 4175 viewsLord_Bony

Kensington is a nice part of London.

I always take a stroll up to the natural history and science museums...good for kids too.

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London on a Sunday on 23:20 - Jul 28 with 4042 viewsbuilthjack

London on a Sunday on 20:58 - Jul 28 by Lord_Bony

Kensington is a nice part of London.

I always take a stroll up to the natural history and science museums...good for kids too.


Just don't pay the donations when you get in. It's supposed to be free.

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London on a Sunday on 23:29 - Jul 28 with 4029 viewsMurph75

London on a Sunday on 23:20 - Jul 28 by builthjack

Just don't pay the donations when you get in. It's supposed to be free.


Don't be so tight. The museums struggle without donations.
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London on a Sunday on 23:30 - Jul 28 with 4028 viewsJackFish

Kew Gardens if the weather is nice.
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London on a Sunday on 23:53 - Jul 28 with 4006 viewsmorningstar

If you can find the missus and kids something to do then theres always Clapham common. You could meet some lovely people down there who may invite you back to their flat for a meal. But it's best if you don't take your wallet.

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London on a Sunday on 07:28 - Jul 29 with 3928 viewsBuckinghamshirejack

London on a Sunday on 23:53 - Jul 28 by morningstar

If you can find the missus and kids something to do then theres always Clapham common. You could meet some lovely people down there who may invite you back to their flat for a meal. But it's best if you don't take your wallet.


Weathers looking pretty decent so try Battersea Park. It's a short drive from Kensington, it's right next to the river for walks, boating lake, cafe or take a picnic and there's a zoo. There's always some sort of event there too.
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London on a Sunday on 13:40 - Jul 29 with 3832 viewslatchford

Thanks for the suggestions. The marching powder is my preferred option but I could be returning to Swansea divorced. Every cloud!!!
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London on a Sunday on 14:51 - Jul 29 with 3797 viewslondonlisa2001

If you walk up to the Albert Memorial (Kensington Gardens) as Darran suggests, cut down the road opposite (Queensgate) and turn off to Queens Gate Mews where you'll find a lovely little pub for a Sunday lunch (The Queens Arms), from there, you carry on walking down Queensgate away from the park and at the bottom you'll find the V&A, the Natural History Museum and the Science Museum, all of which are good.

Back at the top end (by the park) on the next road to Queensgate (Exhibition Road) if you walk down there a couple of yards, you'll pass the Royal Geographical Society, which has a good exhibition at the moment about Shackelton's Expedition to the Antarctic (starts in his office at the RGS). The Serpentine Galley (Hyde Park) has its summer pavilion up at the moment which is always worth a look, and if you fancy a good laugh, walk down Kensington High Street in the other direction to Olympia, where this weekend is the annual collection of weirdos dressed up in strange outfits (Comic Con).

Camden these days is crap and over touristy, but if you do go up that way, then The Engineer is a lovely pub for lunch, and you can get a boat trip from Camden down the Regents Canal to Little Venice which is nice (can takes you through the back of London Zoo). The walk from Camden down the canal is beautiful - through the zoo, past all the huge Nash houses in Regents Park (Sven Goran Eriksson used to live in one of them). You can walk to Little Venice (in Maida Vale) where there are lovely bars and restaurants, and can then follow the Grand Union Canal to the Paddington Basin where you can walk down through Notting Hill, and cut through Holland Park or Kensington Gardens back to your hotel again.
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London on a Sunday on 15:44 - Jul 29 with 3760 viewslatchford

Thanks Lisa. That`s great
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London on a Sunday on 15:50 - Jul 29 with 3753 viewsDarran

London on a Sunday on 14:51 - Jul 29 by londonlisa2001

If you walk up to the Albert Memorial (Kensington Gardens) as Darran suggests, cut down the road opposite (Queensgate) and turn off to Queens Gate Mews where you'll find a lovely little pub for a Sunday lunch (The Queens Arms), from there, you carry on walking down Queensgate away from the park and at the bottom you'll find the V&A, the Natural History Museum and the Science Museum, all of which are good.

Back at the top end (by the park) on the next road to Queensgate (Exhibition Road) if you walk down there a couple of yards, you'll pass the Royal Geographical Society, which has a good exhibition at the moment about Shackelton's Expedition to the Antarctic (starts in his office at the RGS). The Serpentine Galley (Hyde Park) has its summer pavilion up at the moment which is always worth a look, and if you fancy a good laugh, walk down Kensington High Street in the other direction to Olympia, where this weekend is the annual collection of weirdos dressed up in strange outfits (Comic Con).

Camden these days is crap and over touristy, but if you do go up that way, then The Engineer is a lovely pub for lunch, and you can get a boat trip from Camden down the Regents Canal to Little Venice which is nice (can takes you through the back of London Zoo). The walk from Camden down the canal is beautiful - through the zoo, past all the huge Nash houses in Regents Park (Sven Goran Eriksson used to live in one of them). You can walk to Little Venice (in Maida Vale) where there are lovely bars and restaurants, and can then follow the Grand Union Canal to the Paddington Basin where you can walk down through Notting Hill, and cut through Holland Park or Kensington Gardens back to your hotel again.


Passed the Serpentine Gallery last week though I can't believe people swim in that water it looks buzzing.

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London on a Sunday on 15:52 - Jul 29 with 3749 viewslondonlisa2001

London on a Sunday on 15:44 - Jul 29 by latchford

Thanks Lisa. That`s great


Good weather forecast here this weekend by the way so the parks will be lovely!
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London on a Sunday on 15:55 - Jul 29 with 3742 viewslondonlisa2001

London on a Sunday on 15:50 - Jul 29 by Darran

Passed the Serpentine Gallery last week though I can't believe people swim in that water it looks buzzing.


The water is quite clean apparently although I wouldn't swim in there !

There's a giant sculpture thing of Rebecca Adlington in the Serpentine at the moment.
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London on a Sunday on 16:14 - Jul 29 with 3721 viewsDarran

London on a Sunday on 15:55 - Jul 29 by londonlisa2001

The water is quite clean apparently although I wouldn't swim in there !

There's a giant sculpture thing of Rebecca Adlington in the Serpentine at the moment.


There was a weird structure/piece of art outside that people were climbing in and out of.

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London on a Sunday on 16:20 - Jul 29 with 3715 viewslondonlisa2001

London on a Sunday on 16:14 - Jul 29 by Darran

There was a weird structure/piece of art outside that people were climbing in and out of.


That's the summer pavilion you're talking about probably. At the Serpentine Gallery so right next to the actual lake? A different artist / architect does one every year.
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London on a Sunday on 16:37 - Jul 29 with 3696 viewsGowerjack

London on a Sunday on 15:52 - Jul 29 by londonlisa2001

Good weather forecast here this weekend by the way so the parks will be lovely!


Hi Lisa

Have you ever been here?

http://www.horniman.ac.uk/home

A great old fashioned museum full off strange objects in dusty cases!

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London on a Sunday on 16:39 - Jul 29 with 3689 viewslondonlisa2001

London on a Sunday on 16:37 - Jul 29 by Gowerjack

Hi Lisa

Have you ever been here?

http://www.horniman.ac.uk/home

A great old fashioned museum full off strange objects in dusty cases!


Absolutely ! A great little place - used to live in West Norwood for about 10 years, so it wasn't far to Forest Hill.
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London on a Sunday on 17:04 - Jul 29 with 3666 viewsMurph75

London on a Sunday on 16:39 - Jul 29 by londonlisa2001

Absolutely ! A great little place - used to live in West Norwood for about 10 years, so it wasn't far to Forest Hill.


Why don't you invite them around to yours for a game of trivial pursuit?
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London on a Sunday on 17:05 - Jul 29 with 3666 viewsDarran

London on a Sunday on 16:20 - Jul 29 by londonlisa2001

That's the summer pavilion you're talking about probably. At the Serpentine Gallery so right next to the actual lake? A different artist / architect does one every year.


Yeah that's it.


Oh and taxi drivers are robbing c*nts too.

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