FAVOURITE
PLACES
London is a brilliant place to live, as there are just so many fantastic
places to go and things to do.
On this page
we thought we'd try to give you a sort of guide to places we really like,
either so you can just read about them, or so you can use it if you're coming
to London.
The Science Museum
This might be our absolute
favourite museum in London because of a big area there called 'Launch
Pad', which is like a big science 'playground', with loads of things to
try out, like a pair of 'reflector dishes' for sending and receiving your
voice down the length of the room without wires.
Ben stands in front of one, and Jack stands in front of the other, and
it works really well.
Then there are these cables and bars that you can arrange into a sort
of 'suspension' table that holds your weight, and loads of other great
things like a giant squeegee that dips in a trough of soapy water and
makes an 8 foot 'bubble sheet' when you pull it up.
The Natural History Museum
It's
just incredibly, fantastically amazing.
There are dinosaurs, which are our favourite. The dinosaurs are all in
a big hall and at the end of the hall there are some dinosaurs which are
actually alive but they aren't really because it's a model and they do
roar, though.
After
the dinosaurs there are other amazing things to see here, and there's
a brilliant room which simulates what it's like to be doing your shopping
in a shop when an earthquake happens.
's
a bit scary, but still brilliant. Then there's the mammals gallery, which
we love, too, where there are all different mammals, actual size, including
a gigantic whale hanging from the roof and filling almost the whole room.
If you get chance to go here, you must.
The Victoria and Albert Museum

The V&A, as it's known,
is the building in the blue drawing, and it's full of the most incredible
things. It's hard to say what joins them all together except that they
are all to do with arts and crafts from all periods in history. So there
are just millions of interesting 'things' here.
The V&A, and the Science Museum and the Natural History Museum are all
close to each other in a part of London called South Kensington, and we
have a sort of season ticket, which is really good because it means we
can go to all of them as often as we want.
Eureka
This
isn't in London at all. It's actually in Halifax, which is in Yorkshire
and takes about half an hour to get to when we go to visit Grandma Joyce,
who lives in Manchester. It's brilliant though. It's packed full of the
most incredible working things that you can play on and investigate and
see how they work. It's incredible. Really brilliant.
London Toy and Model Museum

This is a brilliant
collection of old toys and models and dolls houses and trains and all
sorts of other things from children over the years, and it's all put together
really interestingly and there's even a train ride you can go on. There
is a more famous 'Museum of Childhood' in Bethnal Green, which is part
of the V&A, but we like this one better.
Kenwood
There are lots of nice parks and woods near where we live. The
picture of us here was taken at Kenwood, which is about quarter of an
hour away, and where there is a big house, which is now an art gallery,
and lovely gardens which open out onto Hampstead Heath. In summer there
are concerts at Kenwood on Saturday evenings, and sometimes they have
fireworks which we can hear from our house.
 The
Castle
Quite near to where
we live there is a place called The Castle, which is a Victorian waterworks
pumping house which has been converted into an indoor climbing centre.
We absolutely love going here, which we sometimes do on Saturday mornings.
There is a bouldering wall, and we are also learning to climb en belay.
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