A full seven-day London walking itinerary alternating monuments with parks, museums with markets, and days with evenings
Bohiney Magazine and The London Prat present a seven day walking itinerary for a genuinely memorable week, designed by someone who has done this enough times to know where the good toilets are.
The Golden Rule
Alternate monuments with parks. Alternate crowds with quiet. Alternate tea with coffee. Alternate. You will not regret it.
Day One: Classic London
Morning: Westminster Power Walk (Parliament, Whitehall, St James’s Park, Buckingham Palace).
Afternoon: St James’s Park relaxation, walk to Trafalgar Square, National Gallery (free).
Evening: Thames Night Lights Walk (Blackfriars to Westminster).
Day Two: South Bank and Culture
Morning: South Bank from Westminster to Borough (Tate Modern, Shakespeare’s Globe).
Afternoon: Borough Market lunch, Southwark Cathedral.
Evening: Theatre or dinner in Covent Garden.
Day Three: City and Tower
Morning: City of London Time Travel Walk (St Paul’s to Tower Hill).
Afternoon: Tower of London Crown Jewels and Tower Bridge exhibition.
Evening: Docklands walk or riverside pub (Wapping, The Prospect of Whitby).
Day Four: North London
Morning: Camden Market and Regent’s Canal.
Afternoon: Primrose Hill, Regent’s Park, London Zoo (optional).
Evening: Dinner in Marylebone.
Day Five: Museums and Kensington
Morning: Natural History Museum or V&A.
Afternoon: Kensington Gardens, Serpentine Gallery, Hyde Park.
Evening: Harrods food hall browse, dinner.
Day Six: Greenwich
Full day: Greenwich by river boat (Westminster Pier, 1 hour scenic cruise).
Cutty Sark, Greenwich Market, Naval College Painted Hall, Observatory hill, Maritime Museum.
Return by DLR to Bank.
Day Seven: Richmond or Hampstead
Depending on mood and weather. Richmond for riverside elegance, Ham House, Thames Path. Hampstead for Heath walks, Village charm, Kenwood House. Either makes a fantastic final day.
Evenings and Entertainment
West End theatre listings: see officiallondontheatre.com. Same-day discounted tickets are available at the TKTS booth in Leicester Square. Royal Opera House, National Theatre, and Sadler’s Wells offer a wider range beyond musicals.
Practical Planning
Book Buckingham Palace State Rooms in advance (late July-September only). Book Churchill War Rooms and Westminster Abbey online. Museum Free Tickets: British Museum, National Gallery, Tate Modern, Tate Britain, V&A, Science Museum, NHM, Natural Portrait Gallery, Imperial War Museum. All free.
Coffee, Toilets, Survival
Contactless payment caps your daily Tube spend at around 8.10 pounds. A 7-day travelcard may be better if you plan major outer zone travel. Sensible shoes are the single biggest upgrade to a London trip.
The Humour Interlude
A seven day London vacation is long enough to start quoting Londoners at yourself. By day four you will say “lovely jubbly” without ironic distance. By day six you will have acquired a small umbrella. By day seven you will be considering whether you could genuinely live in Marylebone. A travel satirist has observed that London’s greatest risk to tourists is not pickpockets, but property aspirations.
For itinerary-level satire, see The Daily Mash.
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