The Science Museum in South Kensington is great; the Victoria and Albert Museum also in South Ken is good, too, if you're interested in the decorative arts. I know there are only so many museums you can tolerate, but the Design Museum in Shad Thames is good, albeit small. It is on the south side of the river next to Tower Bridge. The area around the Design Museum is a great example of regeneration in London: until 20 years ago it was all derelict warehousing.

Obviously the British Museum is good. Try to see the Elgin Marbles and the Assyrian Freeze.

My favourite pub in London is the Lamb & Flag in Covent Garden, just off Bedford Street. A real old drinkers' dive of some character is Gordon's wine bar on Villiers Street next to Charing Cross station. It is the last doorway on the left as you head from the Strand towards Embankment tube; you have to go down some grotty stairs. I wouldn't leave London without taking a schooner of white port at Gordons! I'll probably go there tonight as I am appearing in court in London tomorrow morning.

If you're hungry for information the Time Out guides are excellent. There is a shopping guide, a restaurant guide, and a very good pub and bar guide. When you are drinking in a pub, men should drink pints of bitter--usually the hand-pulled stuff (the tap stuff is generally lager). My favourite London ale is Young's Best Bitter (this is available in the Lamb and Flag, I think); a very common London ale is London Pride. You will find Marston's Pedigree around a lot, too. Women tend not to drink bitter; they drink halves (i.e. a half pint) of lager or gins and tonic or wine.

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