The London Traveler

Two dates for cash-strapped opera lovers – the BP Big Screens will be showing two operas from the Royal Opera House in July.
We kick off with Verdi’s Don Carlos on the 3rd of July, at 6pm. There will be big screens in Trafalgar Square and at Canada Square Park in Docklands.
Then Mozart’s The Marriage of Figaro will be broadcast on 16 July, with screens in Trafalgar Square, Canada Square Park in Docklands, Lakeside shopping centre and Chertsey Road, Sunbury.  The showing starts at 7pm.
Okay, it’s not the same intense experience as seeing the opera in the house. But it does …read more

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A piece in the Guardian today shows ways you can have fun in London for free, with activities as diverse as gigs, knitting, free movies, and watching a trial at the Old Bailey.
Many of the best museums – including the biggest ones – are free, and so is one of my favourites, the Sir John Soane Museum in Lincoln’s Inn Fields.
If you want to go to Evensong or one of the Sunday services in Westminster Abbey, it’s free – and that’s a big saving as otherwise it’s £12 to get in, which even for such a historic building seems a …read more

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