Tower of London

One of those places that you just start to take for granted as a grown up living and working in London. But I've just seen that they have started to do twilight tours, which sound super. I know they sometimes do gigs there too - it still grates that I missed the Pet Shop Boys one I had tickets for two years ago. Hey ho. Most excitingly, I read this morning that there is going to be yet another ice rink there: but this one looks amazing - it's set up as the moat. Fabulous. Running from 24th Nov until 13th Jan. Not to be missed. The Tower's also been in the news recently for appointing the first woman beefeater for 522 years. Well done, Moira, I salute you.

John Soane museum

T has been going on at me about visiting here for years now. In fact, when we finally made it there a month or so ago we wondered if it would mean that we could no longer be friends - what else would we talk about now we didn't have the prop of planning a visit to this ace museum? Well - it seems to have worked out ok, and we had a really excellent time at John's house. He was quite a dude, this guy: an artist, architect, thinker, collector, general polymath. Things I was stunned by: the passion of the museum caretakers; the queues outside (the place is only open in the evenings once a month, on the first tuesday, and clearly time out readers have decided it's cool); and the sheer quantity of crazy stuff on show there. Great. Go when it gets dark in the evenings so that they light the candles. But be prepared to be patient to get in.

STOP PRESS 19 Princelet St open for one week only

OK, so the Museum of Immigration and Diversity really isn't open that often. So June 17th-24th is a special time when the effort really must be made to go there. The building has been a mosque, synagogue and church in its time. It struggles to keep going but by all accounts is a bit of a magical Tardis-like building. And I love that they market themselves as London's 'museum of conscience'. I'm there.

Horniman Museum and park

I love this place. The views really are quite breathtaking and remind you what a green city London is. Also, the newly-revamped museum is absolutely wicked. There's a giant walrus and everything. I once ate a really nice omlette at the cafe too. What more could a girl want?