Happy birthday to me! It’s the special one – the one where your age and the date match. Glorious. I’ll be out celebrating with a few of my closest friends at my favourite Moroccan restaurant tonight.
In the meantime, I have put together a list of 28 things I want to do in London whilst I’m 28. Any suggestions I shouldn’t miss out on, leave them in the comments and if I haven’t already been there, done that, I’ll add it to my list. Also, if you’ve done any of these things, tell me if they are worth it!
1.) Find a shop or market stall that sells interesting jewellery making supplies for my Etsy creations. Any suggestions?
2.) Interview at least one different Londoner each week for LLO. Any volunteers?
3.) Visit the Thames barrier.
4.) Take a tour of Dennis Severs House on one of the Monday night candlelight tours.
5.) Learn how to take those awesome streaky, long-exposure night photographs.
5.) Enrol in a Spanish course.
6.) Cocktails or wine, a brownie and a film and Electric Cinema on Portobello Road.
7.) Meet Graham and walk around Camden with our cameras. He doesn’t know that yet but he might now.
8.) Go on a street art walking tour around the East End.
9.) Visit as many cemeteries as I can find to take photos. Know any good ones I may not have been to?
10.) Take a photograph of this muddy canal bit with the reflection of a very colourful building that I can see out of the Southeastern train window coming into London Bridge just before Deptford.
11.) Go on an organised photo walk in an area of London I’ve never explored.
12.) Have a market stall at least one weekend to sell the jewellery I make.
13.) Find some quirky new local-ish pubs to try like The Cat’s Back in Wandsworth.
14.) Take a class at The Make Lounge.
15.) Get a bike. Use it.
16.) Play ping pong at The Book Club in Shoreditch.
17.) Check out the cushion-y beer garden at The Eagle in Shepherd’s Bush in the summer.
18.) Discover a new favourite bookshop, restaurant and coffee shop.
19.) Track down the best Sunday Roast with the best atmosphere.
20.) Secret Cinema.
21.) Draw on the walls at The Doodle Bar in Battersea.
22.) Try some teas from around the world at Postcard Teas on Bond Street.
23.) See a film at Lexi Cinema in Kensal Rise. Funny enough, I lived in Kensal Green two years, walked down Chamberlayne Road a million and one times and never went here.
24.) Check out the Pergola and Hill Garden in Hampstead in the Spring.
25.) Take pictures of the Traffic Light Tree near Canary Wharf.
26.) Eat in the dark at Dans le Noir in Clerkenwell.
27.) Check out St George’s Gardens near Euston.
28.) Walk into London very early one morning to see the sun rise on nearly empty streets.
So, help me celebrate my 28th. One of the best birthday presents would be to recommend a favourite place in London that I need to know about! Thank you!
Little London Observationist 