The Natural History Museum – Rekindle your inner child by exploring the Natural History Museum at night. The After-school Club for Adults is a three-hour guided adventure of the natural wo rid. You’ll set off on a torch-lit trail of the Dinosaur gallery, learn about the solar system and make your own clay animal models.
Explore The Parks – In summer Londoners come out to play. Parks become playgrounds where people play soccer, skate, stretch and picnic. Tennis courts are fully subscribed and jungle gyms are frequented by beaming children, it is said that forty percent of London consists of green spaces and open water, which means that marshlands, woodlands and parks are a walk or a cycle ride away from wherever you are. Some of the city’s biggest nature hubs include Wimbledon Common, Hampstead Heath, Epping Forest and Richmond Park. They all offer miles of off-road trails. Watch the autumn leaves fall in Ruislip Woods (the biggest woodland inside greater London) and go blackberry picking in Wormwood Scrubs (one of the city’s largest commons).
Hyde Park hosts regular exhibitions and events and is home to Speakers’ Corner where outspoken individuals voice their views and opinions to anyone who will listen, in the southwest you can visit the Royal Kew Gardens (London’s most famous botanical gardens) to see glasshouses, historic buildings, and diverse fauna and flora. It also has a 200-metre-long treetop walkway that snakes past the crowns of lime, sweet chestnut and oak trees. Plenty of wildlife call London home too. As you explore the city’s green spaces, you may come across hares, badgers, weasels, deer, mice and foxes.
