London at Christmas time




London...

The Globe
http://www.shakespeares-globe.org/christmascracker/
5 pounds only!! book today


Check out the FREE GALLERIES - The national gallery in Trafalgar sq has tours for 1 hour at 11am and 2pm. Do it. Right near by is St Martin's in the fields church which has free concerts most lunchtimes and evenings.. eg Mozart by moonlight. Lovely.



Walk around Regent street and check out the christmas lights at night...  ahhhh how i miss it. And go to Covent garden and check that out. And Liecester sq.
Oh yeah, drop by the little french church at Liecester Sq. Right off the square near the King Charles Cinema.





Church it UP
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Check out the church, which is hard to find near covent garden -  Corpus Christi  (Maiden Lane WC2E Tube: Covent Garden), as mentioned in Chestertons Fr Brown and The End of the Affair, by Graham Greene.


oh and definitely check out the church at Holborn - the oldest catholic church in england i think - St Ethereda's!! MUST SEE. and nearby, go to the Old Cheshire Cheese, one of the oldest pubs in england and... you MUST check out the downstairs levels.


Definately go to mass at Brompton oratory, South Kensington on a Saturday night. Lovely voices... and such a nice church.

Oh, and visit the spanish church just north of bond st.








Ice Skating
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Go ice skating in somewhere famous... book now
sommerset house http://www.viewlondon.co.uk/tickets/somerset-house-ice-rink-tickets-feature-342.html


or

http://www.viewlondon.co.uk/whatson/ice-skating-at-hyde-park-tickets-article-8649.html

summerset house is probably the nicer of the two.

Check out music in camdem
Walk around regents park
See so many great pubs!
Eat a curry at brick lane


See a Show!
MUST check out a show - http://www.lastminute.com/site/entertainment/theatre/product_list.html?CATID=95281 Tickets for a tenner!

Kevin Spacey in inherit the wind
Kiera Knightley in the Misanthrope.

See the MouseTrap - has been running for like 50 years!

I recommend - the 39 steps.
http://www.lastminute.com/lmn/pso/catalog/Product.jhtml?POSITION=1&PRODID=467625593&CATID=95281

If you need a uk address to book these, send them to jo and mads place.

or, you can go to liecester sq tube, get off, go to a half tix place and buy a ticket for a show that night for about 20quid.

Oh... Too much

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