Today I want to bring you my guide to having a perfect weekend in London. From walks in parks to big nights out, it has ideas for how to spend your time in the UK capital.
Perfect Weekend in London
On Friday night I went to see the Sex and the City movie. I won’t lie; I never watched the show very much when it was on the air. However, I still wanted to see the film to know what all the fuss was about.
While watching the movie I was a bit surprised by how little the film focused on “the city,” i.e. New York.
While the principal characters were based there, significant parts of the film also took place in Mexico and California. So much for the Big Apple.
Reflecting on the film, I realized there were some interesting parallels with my existence in Britain.
I’ve lived in London for almost eight months now (hard to believe!), but most of my exciting adventures have taken place everywhere but the UK capital.
Coincidentally, like SATC, some of my most recent stories were all about Mexico and California.
How to Spend a Weekend in London
To remedy my lack of news about the city I resolved to have an action-packed perfect weekend in London that would make the girls across the pond jealous.
After the movie I headed down to The Cuckoo Club, a nightclub in London’s chi chi Mayfair, with six other lovely ladies. Once there we proceeded to dance the night away (literally), emerging from the club just after 4am.
By the time I arrived home in Hampstead at 4:30am, it was light as day outside. Not a bad start.
On Saturday afternoon my perfect weekend in London continued as I took to the city once again as a guest at a London birthday scavenger hunt my colleague had planned for his wife.
As part of a six-person team I explored the streets of Soho, Westminster and Spitalfields, searching for answers to clues, taking lots of photos, and picking up little gifts for the birthday girl along the way.
The day was impeccably planned and was a fabulous way to see London.
On Sunday we were blessed with gorgeous weather, so my boyfriend whisked me off to Richmond for the afternoon (actually, I planned the whole thing but I have to make it sound somewhat romantic if I’m trying to give SATC a run for its money, right?).
We walked along the river hand-in-hand, passing the idyllic sidewalk cafes and pubs, and made our way to Richmond Park for a pleasant picnic on the green.
We missed seeing the deer for which the park is famous, but we did get to see a swan attack two small dogs, an event from which I’m sure Carrie Bradshaw could draw some obscure parallel to life in Manhattan.
My perfect weekend in London–one of a very few in the last several months–made me realize all over again how amazing this place is.
It’s no wonder the ladies from SATC chose to hold the world premiere of their movie here. They know which city is really the best in the world.
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