What to do in london this weekend?

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I'm in London this weekend and wondered what to see and do. Its a works sports and social do. We should hit the hotel about 11am (the Hilton) and we leave at 4pm sunday.

I've seen the normal tourist things:-

London eye
science museum
Nat history museum
British museum
Harrods
War museum
Buckingham palace
London zoo
etc...

I want to the the nature photographer of the year display at the Nat history and have booked a show at 7.30 sat night.

Is there any good highlights i'm missing? Also where is good to eat near the shows? We normaly end up wandering around China town looking at the ducks hanging in the windows :D
 
Obligatory take her up the OXO tower comment.

Dinner: Try Bocca Di Lupo for great Italian food. I would second Bodeans for lunch.

Check out Time Out for things to do, here are some interesting things happening

http://www.timeout.com/london/museums-attractions/event/205326/underground-christmas-journey

http://www.timeout.com/london/museums-attractions/event/64005/london-aquarium

http://www.timeout.com/london/venue/5781/museum-of-london

http://www.walks.com/

Loads more here

Get up early(ish) on Sunday and go to the Cenotaph, if you havn't been before its well worth going, even if its just for the hairs to stand up on the back of your neck when the massed band plays Elgars Nimrod (from the Enigma Variations). It might not be what your looking for but you wont regret going. Go to Charring Cross or Westminster tube for sometime around 9.00-10.00ish and follow the crowds down Whitehall, just remember there are security checkpoints to get on to Whitehall.
 
I like the London Aquarium. I've been several times and never get bored but then I'm into that kind of thing. If it floats your boat you should go.
 
Nice walk along the South Bank (from London Eye to London Bridge) is always a good walk, often do it myself.

China Town I'm getting bored with now I live here, was good every now and then but it's just losing that appeal now.

Covent Garden (one stop [and the shortest stop] away from Leicester Square/China Town on the Piccadilly Line) I feel has a better atmosphere and some better places to eat and nearly always some kind of entertainment.
 
Go to the fifty five bar in Camden. There cocktails are like O_o :eek:
So good even better at happy hour when its buy one get one free !!!!
 
No advice for what to do, but a quick heads up about weekend tube closures. They seem a little worse than usual this weekend, though if you're mainly in staying in the center most routes are easily in walking distance, or bus at a push. Indeed, it's often much faster doing so than catching multiple tubes to get around a closure to reach a station you'd normally be one stop away from.

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Looks good :)

What about after the show? Anywhere to see some live artists near Theatre Royal, Drury Lane?

Somewhere you can sit and relax/enjoy.
 
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