Museums and parks

1. Visit Madame Tussaud’s
2. Visit the Bank of England museum – done!
3. Visit the HMS Belfast
4. Visit the Tower of London; witness the Ceremony of the Keys
5. Go to the London Dungeons
6. Mooch around Kew Gardens
7. Monkey about at London Zoo
8. Behave regally in Buckingham Palace
9. Visit Kenwood House
10. Go to Highgate Cemetary; be sure to look at Karl Marx’s grave
11. Visit the Crossness Pumping Station
12. Eat a picnic in Temple Gardens
13. Nod approvingly at Changing the Guard
14. Visit the newly interactive Museum of London – done!
15. Fail to be interested by paintings at Tate Britain
16. Get the DLR down to the Museum of London Docklands – done!
17. Clamber up Monument – done!
18. Get excited by engineery things in the Tower Bridge Exhibition and attend an event on the walkways – done!
19. Assess the decor in Doctor Johnson’s house
20. Make it to the Winter Wonderland in Hyde Park – done!
21. Walk around Hogarth’s House
22. Escape the maze, and look at dinosaurs, in Crystal Palace Park – done!
23. Sir John Soanes’ Museum in Lincoln’s Inn Fields
24. Old Operating Theatre in Southwark
25. Find a way out of the Hampton Court Palace maze
26. Snap a decent wildlife photo at the London Wetland Centre – done!
27. Explore Dennis Severs’ house
28. Be a rampant commercialist at Museum of Brands, Packaging and Advertising – done!
29. Bee excited at the Chelsea Physic Garden
30. Go on an east London Culture Line museum crawl
    1. Hackney Museum
    2. Geffrye Museum
    3. Wesley’s Chapel
    4. Royal London Hospital Museum
    5. Whitechapel Gallery
    6. The Women’s Library
    7. The Brunel Museum; keep an eye out for Thames Tunnel tours
    8. Horniman Museum
    9. Crystal Palace Museum
    10. Museum of Croydon
31. Get around to visiting the Wellcome Collection

Tube and transport

32. Go on the Waterloo & City line – done!
33. Drive around the M25
34. Be a foot passenger on the Woolwich Ferry – done!
35. Hire a boat on the Thames (or canal)
36. Pass through all Underground stations in one day of operation
37. Ride on London’s only steam railway – done!
38. Visit a disused Tube station – done!
39. Ride on old Tube stock
40. Partake in an Alternative Tube Challenges day

Food and drink

41. Have a drink at Vertigo 42
42. Enjoy a refreshing pint, at 6am, in Smithfield’s market
43. Go on the Fuller’s brewery tour
44. Do some wine tasting at Vinopolis
45. Have afternoon tea somewhere you have to dress smartly
46. A Monopoly board pub crawl
47. A Circle line pub crawl
48. Be involved in a pub quiz in each London postal area (E, EC, N, NW, SE, SW, W, WC) – work in progress!
49. Eat at Konstam, where most ingredients are sourced from within the M25
50. Have a shisha on the Edgware Road
51. Go for a curry in Tooting
52. Go to all of Fancy A Pint‘s five pint London pubs
53. Drink port in a St. James’s club
54. Cocktails at The Savoy
55. Cigar and champagne at The Terrace Garden
56. Eat meat from The Meat Wagon

Media

57. See a film at the Imax Cinema – done!
58. Present a programme on a London radio station
59. Pay homage to Top Minder Locations
60. Be an extra in something (preferably EastEnders)
61. Watch an edition of London Tonight
62. Phone in to the Robert Elms programme on BBC London 94.9
63. Rock out to a gig at The Roundhouse
64. Have a letter printed in the Evening Standard
65. Try to find the Big Breakfast house

Music and performance

66. Soak up some culture by attending a BBC Prom at the Royal Albert Hall
67. Go to the Lord Mayor’s Show – done!
68. See Chas & Dave live
69. See a funny person tell jokes at the Hammersmith Apollo
70. Form a joke band; get a photo on Abbey Road zebra crossing; perform once; disband
71. Speak at Speakers’ Corner
72. A night out at Ronnie Scott’s
73. Go to a Richard Herring gig with people mentioned in his book (now with 50% off at Amazon)
74. Stand up at The Globe (short play preferred)
75. Lord it at the Notting Hill Carnival – done!

Politics, justice and religion

76. Watch Prime Minister’s Questions from the public gallery at the House of Commons
77. See someone get sent down at the Old Bailey – sort of done…
78. Tour the Clock Tower – done!
79. Attend a function for each of the three major political parties
80. Watch Mayor’s Question Time at the Greater London Assembly building
81. Mutter things in the Whispering Gallery at St. Paul’s Cathederal
82. Attend a choral service at Westminster Abbey
83. Visit Neasden Temple
84. Cover my head at the Bevis Marks Synagogue

Sport and leisure

85. Watch darts at Alexandra Palace
86. Go ice skating at Somerset House – done!
87. Get into the Long Room at Lord’s
88. Attend a football match at Wembley
89. Attend a rugby game at Twickenham
90. Cycle the Regent’s Canal towpath
91. Banger racing at Wimbledon Stadium – done!
92. Do a length, and back, of Tooting Bec Lido (180m; best swimming certificate I have is 100m)
93. Join in the Chap Olympiad
94. Organise a Boris Bike race

Things that don’t quite fit

95. Watch butch men sell flowers at Covent Garden Flower Market
96. Take a trip to Eel Pie Island. Don’t try to annexe it (like Danny Wallace did) – done!
97. Make an investment on the London Stock Exchange
98. Celebrate the Chinese New Year in Leicester Square – failed!
99. Window shop at London Silver Vaults
100. Enter a Shoot London photography competition