By the way, if you want a cheap thrill there’s always the Emirates cable car between the O2 (Millennium Dome) and the Excel Centre. I mean, there’s no reason to go to the Excel Centre but it’s a diverting journey across the Thames and you can get the DLR from there into the City (or indeed the other way around, taking the DLR to Royal Victoria and getting the cable car over to the O2).
You can also climb up the outside of the Dome (for something like £35) if you want something different, and there’s also a very long zipwire over by Lambeth Palace at the moment which I might partake of this summer.
It might be worth it to go to the ExCel Centre just to see how huge it is. I was in it in 2014 when the World Science Fiction Convention was held in one small section at one end of it. I was staying in a hotel near one end of it. It was a long walk to the convention because it was at the far end of it.
If you do nothing else. Walk into the main foyer of the National Gallery (just off Trafalgar Sq)
Turn right.
Enjoy.
Van Gogh, Monet, Renoir, Seurat, Turner, Constable and myriad other treasures. Sublime from start to finish. (and that is just one tiny part of it…but to my mind the best)
Then, to clear your head. why not a stroll down Whitehall, over Westminster Bridge and down the South Bank to Tower Bridge?
I was quite surprised to find mashed peas as a fish & chips condiment, BTW. I’d never heard of that before. I was also surprised to find that pub fare was so light in London–but that may have been a fluke.
According to this documentary, the Stride murder site is indeed a playground now. Interesting that both the Stride and Eddowes sites have both been put to this use.
Just to beat this horse firmly into the ground, the Eddowes murder site is in the recreation area of what is now Sir John Cass’s Foundation Primary School.
