101 things to do in London (down to 8)

Countdown: 132 days

Alright I found a list of things to do before leaving the capital city so here it lay (I will take off some of those ((upcoming)) things off, some will have already been done, or are impossible to do)





1) St-Martin-in-the-field: classical music by candlelight (check out time and price, later this summer)


2) Walk by night


3) Westminster Cathedral: hear the young boy choir (at 10.30 every day)


4) Eat a bagel at Daniel's Bagel bakery (12-13 Hallswelle Parade, Finchley Rd, NW11 Golders Green tube. Near Hampstead)


5) Pollock's Toy Museum (Pollock’s Toy Museum, 1 Scala St (entrance Whitfield St), W1 (/http://www.timeout.com/external_link/?http://www.pollockstoymuseum.com) Goodge St tube.


6)Hunterian Musem (Hunterian Museum, Royal College of Surgeons, 35-43 Lincoln’s Inn Fields, WC2 (020 7869 6560/ http://www.timeout.com/external_link/?http://www.rcseng.ac.uk/museums) Holborn tube.)


7) Japanese Peace Pagoda (Battersea park)


8) Do the monopoly pub crawl: 26 pubs in a day... won't happened to me but I guess I could taste the ale in a couple of these pubs (http://www.monopolypubcrawl.org.uk./)





Things I want to see (or do) 12 - Soho Square

Next: check out our way back to the airport, gift list, maps

Scheduling the day

Countdown: 133 days

Surely I'll have plenty of things to do... i'm already up at 11 and there is many, many more...

I wonder if the rest of the summer will go up fast... hopefully! I'll eventually run out of things to do!! lol ... hmmm....maybe not!

Schedule

Wednesday:

-Hostel

-Museum: British Museum (till 1200pm)

-Museum: Natural History (till 1700)

-Supper: Old Bell

-Promenade (walk around)

Thursday:

Bournemouth:

-Transport: Train

-Visit: Oceanarium

-Visit: Bournemouth Eye

-Visit: Docks and Pier

-Supper: Fish & Chips

Friday:

-Museum: Mme Tussaud + Regent's Park pic.

-Museum: Sir John Soanes Museum

-Museum: Museum of london

-Supper: ???

Saturday:

-Buying: Souvenirs

-Buying: Disney boutique

-Museum: Banqueting House + picture of Whitehall and Westminster

-Visit: St Stephen Walbrook

-Promenade (Walk around) #1

-Supper: Somerfield (pizza and pepper/onion thing)

Sunday:

-Photo #2

-Promenade (Walk around)

-Hampstead Heath

-Supper: Somerfield (or restaurant)

Monday:

Come back!!

Still haven't figured out if I was to go to Giraffe!

#1: Soho + Fiztrovia + Piccadilly

#2 Covent Garden + Holborn + Hampstead

(other: City + Smithfield + Southwark ) = We will see in time (or later this summer!)

Things I want to do (or see) 11 - Berwick Street Market: Looks like mini Jean-Talon Market.. i'll go get an apple there!

Paulo Coelho told me one day : ...

Countdown: 136 days

Alright. so I had this idea to take a book with me ( The Alchemist: Paulo Coelho) and to write a little note in it, like... contact me after you have read this book... *my email adresss* and let this book somewhere it will be picked up. thanks... So my book will travel... and hopefully somewhere than England too! I don't know if it will work out but I am more than willing to give it a try!

Another thing: In "Ser como o rio que flui, Paulo Coehlo says 9 things to do, or not to do while travelling;

#1 Avoid Museums

#2 Go to Bars, Pubs, Café's

#3 Be available

#4 Travel on your own (Yes, sir!)

#5 Don't compare

#6 Understand that anyone/everyone (can) understand you

#7 Don't buy too much

#8 Don't try to see the World within a month

#9 Travelling is an adventure

Well... I know this time I won't see so many museums... but I will (come on, I am going to be an archaeologist one day!!); I will try to go to bars/pubs... every night... either for supper or just for a drink!; be available...I will let place for some unexpected stuff to happen; I WILL travel on my own this time; I won't compare...; I'll try to speak (in a bar...) to people; ischhhh, that one is going to be hard, but I will spend money on food and maybe an album on a singer from England (that is not known here); 5 days is not enough! lol; I KNOW!!

Things I want to see (or do) 10 - Carnaby Street: This is an old picture, but since Carnaby Street was the it street back in the 60's... it kinda fits

Next: Gift's list, What to bring, another schedule with step by step!

Step by step, walking around

Countdown: 137 days

Whitehall & Westminster

Dean's Yard (# 5)

Queen Anne's gate (# 14)

-From Westminster Station; short walk

Picadilly & St-James's

St-James's Church (#2) The ritz (#6)

Burlington Arcade (#5) St-James's Park (#13)

Marlborough House (#15) Shepherd Market (#24)

Lancaster House (#18) Green Park (#25)

Apsley House(#23)

-From Hyde Park Corner Station; long walk- End at Picadilly

Soho & Trafalgar Square

Soho Square (#12)

Berwick Street Market (#13)

Carnaby Street (#14)

-From Tottenham Court Road Station, normal walk- End at Oxford Circus Station ((** The opposite way!**))

Covent Garden & Le Strand

Royal Opera House (#6) Victoria Embankment Gardens (#20)

Roman Bath(#17) Charing Cross (#22)

-From Covent Garden Station; short walk - End at Temple Station (*Continue with Holborn*)

Fitzrovia & Bloomsbury

Bedford Square (#4)

Russell Square (#5)

Queen Square (#6)

Gare St-Pancras (#9)

-From Tottenham Court Road Station, long walk, End at King's Cross/St-Pancras Station

(*With Soho & Trafalgar Square*)

Holborn & Les collèges d'avocats

Temple Churche (#11) Lincoln Inn Fields (#3)

Staple Inn (#19)

-From Temple Station; normal walk- End at Chancery Lane Station

City

Mansion House(#1)

Maison des Apothicaires (#8)

-From Bank Station; normal walk- End at Blackfriars Station

Smithfield & Spitalfield

Broadgate Centre (#12)

-From Liverpool Street Station, right 'round corner,

Southwark & Bankside

Shakespeare's Globe (#6)

-From London Bridge Station; normal walk

Regent's Park & Marylebone

Cumberland Terrace (#15)

-From Regent's Park Station, long walk

Hampstead

Hampstead heath (#8)

-From Hamptead Station; normal walk

Things I want to see (or do) 9 - Les Jardins du Quai Victoria

Next: Gift's list, What to bring, another schedule with step by step!

step by step... closer to the goal!

Countdown: 138 days

Alright! Days fly by, and now I have one more big thing to buy: Glasses! So... when I'll have everything settled (paying off my credit card!) I will go for some glasses...
There is like 4 and a half months left and hop we go!
I bought this amazing travel notebook and I think it will be great to write in it... everything from what I have done to what I tasted and smelled!


Pictures: Step by Step

Whitehall & Westminster
Dean's Yard (# 5)
Queen Anne's gate (# 14)
-From Westminster Station; short walk

Picadilly & St-James's
St-James's Church (#2)
Burlington Arcade (#5)
Marlborough House (#15)
Lancaster House (#18)
Apsley House(#23)
-From Hyde Park Corner Station; long walk- End at Picadilly Station

Covent Garden & Le Strand
Royal Opera House (#6)
Roman Bath(#17)
-From Covent Garden Station; short walk - End at Temple Station (*Continue with Holborn*)

Holborn & Les collèges d'avocats
Temple Churche (#11)
Staple Inn (#19)
-From Temple Station; normal walk- End at Chancery Lane Station

City
Mansion House(#1)
Maison des Apothicaires (#8)
-From Bank Station; normal walk- End at Blackfriars Station

Smithfield & Spitalfield
Broadgate Centre (#12)
-From Liverpool Street Station, right 'round corner,

Southwark & Bankside
Shakespeare's Globe (#6)
-From London Bridge Station; normal walk

Regent's Park & Marylebone
Cumberland Terrace (#15)
-From Regent's Park Station, long walk

Hampstead
Hampstead heath (#8)
-From Hamptead Station; normal walk


Things I need to bring

-Ipod (and its adapter)
-Plug adapter
-Book to read
-Travel notebook
-Travel book
-Clothes
-Quickpod
-Camera
-Travel stuff; bags, passeport...
-Batteries
-Clock



Things I want to see (or do) 8 - Adelphi (Couldn't find a picture!)

Next: Step by Step including "walk around" stuff, Gift's list...

Good news/Revelations: Money Update

Countdown: 149 days

Alright, good news! I calculated things and: well voilà:

On my credit card now: 980$ ( to clear off )
7 juin: 150$ 830$
14
21
28 juin: 150 $ 680$
5 juillet: 150$ 530$
12 juillet: 150$ 380$
19 juillet: 150 $ 230$
26 juillet: 150$ 80$
2 aout: 150$ 0 + 70=Credit Card Cleared + 70$
4 weeks in August = 600 $ = 670

With this (if everything goes on fine) I would have my credit card cleared with some in bank + my vacation money and some more money along the months of September and October ( 20 $ per week = 160 $ = 830$$)
I would be good to do LT!
*oufff*


Stuff that needs to be done!


- I need to pay Sam! $$$
- My travel note book = Taken cared of
-Lists, lists and some more lists ( a souvenir list, to see what I'll bring back for friends)
-Money count $$$
-Allo Stop Pass... (soon, very soon)
-I need a 'quickpod'
-Ipod adaptor







Things I want to see (or do) 7 - Charing Cross ( Wow.... I am still putting it here, but I am pretty sure I have been there... just didn't realise it....*lol* )

Next: Gift's list, What to bring, step by step schedule of things I want to see!