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London for free: 1) British Museum - 2) Regent's Park - 3) Sky Garen -
4) Free Walking Tours - 5) Camden Town - 6) Greenwich - 7) Walking on
the river banks
Video: 7 Best Things to Do in London for Free (9'42'')
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=e1UR44G2P0U
0:28 1. British Museum
British Museum was the first national museum in the world. 6 million
people per year see 8 million objects, with a collection from Ancient
Egypt and Sudan, with a mummy of Cleopatra, more mummies, and temple
statues, as also a big Greek department ("Rome"), here are the
sculptures from Athens.
2:10 2. Regent's Park
London has 3000 parks thus there is always a place for relax. Here are
fountains, sculptures with winged lions, a little lake with pedalo
drives, and an own zoo. There are "Queen Mary's Gardans" with a rose
collection of 400 varieties of roses. There are the Avenue Gardens with
walks in geometric order and fountains.
3:20 3. Sky Garden
On floor 36 there is a restaurant and a garden with a viewing
possibility in a circle of 360º. In the garden are planted plants from
the Mediterranean and from South Africa.
4:13 4. Free Walking Tours
Learn about London by foot and learn about places, e.g. Trafalgar
Square, there are two tours: the Old City Tour, and the Royal Tour
visiting 3 palaces, Saint James's Palace with bagpipe music corps,
Buckingham Palace with troops on horses, the tours are free but tips are
welcome. On the Old City Tour one can get to learn more about London,
with Big Ben, with monuments etc.
5:28 5. Camden Town
Here are over 1000 shops, drink and dance locations, variation of life
is loved from fine stile to punky stile, streets are even roofed forming
protected pedestrial zone market streets, there are old handicrafts
bewared here like old leather stuff, old photo shooting like in the
1920s, at the other side all punky leather stuff, or also hand painted
sports shoes. Food restaurants are mixed here with any kind of taste
e.g. China kitchen, Indian kitchen, Tai kitchen, Mexican kitchen,
Italian kitchen.
6:52 6. Greenwich
Royal Naval College, with a chappell with a "Painted Hall", in the
normal "Greek" style with gods and goddesses of Egypt etc. There is also
the National Maritime Museum, there is the "Queen's House", the
earliest English building in classical style, and there is a big park
"Greenwich Park", and there is the Royal Observatory with a view of
London skyline passing a park. And Greenwich has also a market,
Greenwich Market. And there is a ship, Cutty Sack, an old clipper ship
from 1869, officially for tea trade with China.
8:32 7. Walking on the river banks
River bank walks are relaxing and good for an architecture tour. There
are glass towers, old castles, medieval ruins. Highlights are the Shard
[an obelisk pyramid], the "Globe" Shakespeare theatre, the Tower Bridge,
the castle "Tower of London", Millennium Bridge, St. Paul's Cathedral,