London Fun Walk For Shoppers and Kids - Camden Market and Regent's Park

London Fun Walk For Shoppers and Kids - Camden Market and Regent's Park

Having fun in London isn't all about sightseeing, sometimes we want to shop, and the older kids can't wait to see what's cool and what's in, in London generally and at the first places to see the new trends - the markets.

London street markets are very ethnically diverse nowadays, and this also makes them a great place for walking through, browsing the brightly-coloured stalls, wandering along trying to be good and avoiding the tasty food samples offered at every turn by aromatic Chinese food stalls or Moroccan lunch vendors!

What you need is a walk afterwards to burn some fat and exercise away the calories! We followed one of most fun days out in London with a walk (and a rest!) in Regent's Park, not that far from Camden market - and recorded the day in the above article. London's Royal Parks are both historical and contemporary living gems and not to be missed. To get max value and fun from a Royal park visit, do some research first.

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Fun Free Festival,Walk And Event Ideas In London's Trafalgar Square

Some of the most fun days out in London that we enjoyed came from ideas in the London fun magazine we carried around in the bottom of a bag! - it weighed a lot less than a laptop! Monty Python's Spamalot Day, great free live music and not so free ethnic food and fashion at Africa Day, and the atmosphere of the Russian Winter Festival all provided fun times, pictures and memories. We collected them all on this other site.

We also got first notice of advance events and exhibitions, and so often benefited from first refusal of popular tickets for other events. The London weather vagaries didn't beat us either, as with a listings magazine on-hand during the day, we could change our plans and jump on the tube for a walk in Hyde Park if the weather brightened or to an indoor attraction like the Tate Modern art gallery if it turned nasty.

London Tate Britain Exhibitions More Fun Than Usual?

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London Fun Things Now Running At Tate Britain Creed Exhibition

Surprisingly, London fun might be on the agenda after all in a gallery, if you're a teen or a student who hates traipsing round staring at pictures all day.

Expecting jeers of derision and tears of laughter at the thought of visiting a so-called piece of 'contemporary art' from the same stable that produced a crumpled sheet of paper, blu-tak and a toilet, I tentatively mooted the idea of visiting the latest Martin Creed installation at the Tate Britain gallery.

Martin Creed, the former Turner prize winner, has had an Olympian inspiration to set a constant stream of runners to sprint through the marble halls and weave through the lofty columns of the Tate Britain gallery - and call it art.

Far from decrying the whole idea of a Puma-sponsored attention-grabbing spectacle as a piece of exploitative sensationalism designed only to hook them in and make fools of them, my teen and tween sons actually showed a spark of interest! As a result, this spectacle 'Work no 850' makes it onto our Autumn London fun things wishlist, as it runs until November.

They will be interested to watch the runners coping with the challenge of slippery floors and in the difficulty of supplying the human running chain with fresh replacement runners. They will probably be disappointed to find out however, that members of the art-loving public such as themselves - or other London fun seekers - will not be able to take part. The usual health and safety concerns apply, and anyway, the runners are apparently only getting paid ten pounds per hour - not that much more than my sons get paid per hour for their paper round.

It will be interesting to hear the opinion of the young on the idea that art can represent the qualities of nothing - it takes a child to see things with a fresh, uncynical and innocent eye. Whether we are being 'taken for a ride' rather than a run will prove interesting debate - as did the intriguing story of The Emperor's New Clothes - in this case that would be running shoes and sports wear apparently sponsored by Puma.

Grab a copy of the best London fun magazine and see what else is new, edgy and different to do in London, in case they've all 'run' out on the very day you want to buy one!

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London Is Fun For Free Running If A Walk Sounds Boring

Great free running images from poolski at flickr.

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London Free Running Fun At Camden Roundhouse Why walk when you can run? The scary death-defying walks, leaps and runs from one city building top to another will be celebrated this week as free running competitors test their nerve and skill on a purpose-built skyway in London. Tickets were available at twenty pounds but, sadly, my sons have both just gone back to school . We are pencilling it in for next year!

London Carnivals are Fun And They're Not All At Notting Hill - Tooting Has One Too - photo Wolfiewolf Flickr

Tooting Common also has more to offer, as well as funfairs, carnivals and local events. The Common is a welcome 'green lung' in the great conurbation of the city of London as a whole, and is a great place for an Autumn walk, letting the dogs or kids run around or for a London fun walk and a picnic. For more great ideas, get your copy of the best London Fun magazine of all.

Thanks to Wolfiewolf (Flickr) to whom I'm crediting this photo of a London Fall walk idea.

The BALHAM and TOOTING CARNIVAL 2008 - Home

Notting Hill isn't the only Fun Carnival in London - Many suburbs and 'London villages' also have their own carnivals , and some are not so crowded or difficult to travel back from either. Offering everything from House Music to theatre production for the kids, these carnival events offer something for everyone in the family. For London visitors, London's local carnivals offer a chance to see an authentic cross-section of London life and a refreshing alternative from the prescribed sights, landmarks and attractions of London. Carnivals are some of the best places to visit in London for local music and ethnic culture. The BALHAM and TOOTING CARNIVAL 2008 - Home