May 23, 2023
On this week’s episode, the boys right a major wrong: in over 150 episodes, they’ve never done an episode on London for first-timers! England’s capital city can be overwhelming—world-class museums on every corner, historically significant architecture left and right, churches and zoos and gardens and parks and theater and libraries! What is a tourist with limited time to do?? This episode tells you.
Things we talk about in this week’s episode:
Obscure Musuems of London Episode
https://outofofficepod.com/podcast/episode-141-obscure-museums-of-london-part-1-return-trip/
River Thames
https://www.smithsonianmag.com/history/the-long-and-winding-history-of-the-thames-139049496/
Handy Guide to Neighborhoods of London
https://www.huffpost.com/entry/48-london-neighborhoods-a-quick-reference-guide_b_7557148
Planning your public transportation
https://tfl.gov.uk/maps_/tfl-go
Taxis and “The Knowledge” (NYer article was behind a paywall so here is a NYT)
https://www.nytimes.com/2014/11/10/t-magazine/london-taxi-test-knowledge.html
Westminster Abbey
https://www.westminster-abbey.org/
Saint Paul’s
Houses of Parliament
https://www.parliament.uk/visiting/
Tower of London
https://www.hrp.org.uk/tower-of-london/
Buckingham Palace and Changing of the Guard
https://www.visitlondon.com/things-to-do/event/8725947-changing-the-guard
Hampton Court Palace
https://www.hrp.org.uk/hampton-court-palace/#gs.ysui4s
Shakespeare’s Globe
https://www.shakespearesglobe.com/
West End
https://officiallondontheatre.com/london-west-end-guide/
British Museum
https://www.britishmuseum.org/
Tate Modern
https://www.tate.org.uk/visit/tate-modern
Tate Britain
https://www.tate.org.uk/visit/tate-britain
Victoria and Albert
V&A David story
https://www.vam.ac.uk/articles/the-story-of-michelangelos-david
Natural History Museum
Churchill War Rooms
https://winstonchurchill.org/visit/churchill-war-rooms/
British Library
https://www.bl.uk/discovering-our-collections
John Soane Museum
Trafalgar Square
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Trafalgar_Square
Piccadilly Circus
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Piccadilly_Circus
Hyde Park
https://www.royalparks.org.uk/parks/hyde-park
Kew Gardens
https://www.kew.org/kew-gardens/visit-kew-gardens
We love Rick Steves’s London guide for first-timers and, for those who are looking to get way off the beaten path, Jonglez Publishing’s “Secret London.”