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Mr Monkey in London
April 29th-30th 2009 - Mr Monkey takes a midweek trip to London.
Mr Monkey visits the V & A, the Chelsea Physic Garden, the Shunt Lounge under London Bridge station, the Royal Academy and St James's Piccadilly, has a book made by an Espresso machine, plays with London at the Building Centre and finds the interesting bit of Euston station. (28 pages)

Mr Monkey in London
February 10th-12th 2009 - Mr Monkey visits London for the first time in 2009.
Mr Monkey visits the V & A, the Fan Museum in Greenwich, Sutton House and Hackney Museum, and spends a lot of time on boats or crossing the Thames at night. (46 pages)

Mr Monkey in London
October 1st-3rd 2008 - Mr Monkey has another weekend in London.
Mr Monkey visits the Music Museum and the Kew Bridge Steam Museum and exhibitions at the London Transport Museum, the Tate Modern and the V&A. (31 pages)

Mr Monkey in London
September 1st 2008 - Mr Monkey stops off in London on the way home from Portsmouth.
Mr Monkey visits the National Army Museum, the Black Friars pub, the 2008 Serpentine Pavilion and Kensington Gardens. (5 pages)

Mr Monkey in London
May 15th-17th 2008 - Mr Monkey goes to London to visit an author from Seattle.
Mr Monkey scampers around the Golden Hinde, meets Kat Richardson for a meal, walks around Canary Wharf, visits the Museum in Docklands, and sees a Chinese landscape outside the British Museum. (56 pages)

Mr Monkey in London
January 10th-13th 2008 - Mr Monkey decides Mr Rik should have a birthday in London.
Mr Monkey sees an exhibitions of posters at the Imperial War Museum, learns about the First Emperor of China at the British Museums, sees imaginative maps and theatre sets at the V & A, drinks coffee with the Michelin Man, goes to the National Gallery via St James's Park, visits Somerset House, examines a small chasm at Tate Modern, and eats with Sherlock Holmes. (38 pages)

Mr Monkey in London
October 2nd-6th 2007 - Mr Monkey's humans go to a conference in London, and Mr Monkey goes too.
Mr Monkey visits Dr Johnson's House, looks at Hammersmith Bridge, visits the London Wetlands Centre, Hyde Park and Kensington Gardens, the Serpentine Gallery Pavilion, and the Wellcome Collection, and celebrates the Moon at the British Museum. (67 pages)

Mr Monkey in London
August 2nd-5th 2007 - Mr Monkey meets another visiting friend in London, and hunts Antony Gormley.
Mr Monkey finds a well-camouflaged exhibition at the Imperial War Musem, some beautiful things from Japan at the British Museum, an Antony Gormley retrospective at the Hayward, examines temporary fountains on the South Bank, learns about Global Cities at Tate Modern, visits Handel's House and the Captain Kidd pub, and rides a midnight carousel. (41 pages)

Mr Monkey in London
March 16th-17th 2007 - Mr Monkey meets a visiting friend in London.
Mr Monkey tours HMS Belfast, looks at the Tower and Tower Bridge by night, and visits the Charles Dickens Museum. (55 pages)

Mr Monkey in London
January 5th-8th 2007 - Mr Monkey celebrates Mr Rik's birthday in London.
Mr Monkey flies to London to see the site of a cholera outbreak, studies Holbein, takes a boat ride from Tate to Tate, visits the British Museum and the V&A, ends Christmas at the Geffrye Museum, looks at a lion saved by George VI, visits the Florence Nightingale museum, walks around Houseguards, Trafalgar Square and the National Gallery, searches for policemen at Great Scotland Yard, looks at maps in the British Library, and flies home. (59 pages)

Mr Monkey in London
September 22nd-23rd 2006 - Mr Monkey goes to eat with an American friend.

Mr Monkey hunts for dinosaurs in Crystal Palace Park, goes to the National Army Museum, and visits the Tower Bridge Exhibition. (35 pages)

Mr Monkey in London
April 5th-6th 2006 - Mr Monkey goes to London for the Jodi Awards.

Mr Monkey visits the Benjamin Franklin House, Seven Dials, Borough Market, Southwark Cathedral and the George Inn. (22 pages)

Mr Monkey in London
March 1st-4th 2006 - Mr Monkey goes to London for the Visionary Design Awards.

Mr Monkey lunches at the British Museum, visits the Imperial War Museum, continues his Clerkenwell walk, sees an exhibition at the Dulwich Picture Gallery, walks along the Thames a little, and has a short boat trip. (52 pages)

Mr Monkey in London
January 2006 - Mr Monkey goes to London for Mr Rik's birthday.

Mr Monkey meets a long lost relative, considers mudlarking, looks at some artistic boxes, views the Thames at night, visits a church and a viaduct in Holborn, does half a walking tour of Clerkenwell, sees a show at the Barbican, and gets on a train to Newcastle. (25 pages)

Mr Monkey in London
September 2005 - Mr Monkey goes to London for Miss Carol's birthday.

Mr Monkey visits Centre Point and St Giles-in-the-Fields, sees some Underground art, eats at Belgo and The Ivy, visits Covent Garden after dark, and arrives at the Natural History Museum half and hour before closing time. (17 pages)

Mr Monkey in London
May 2005 - Mr Monkey visits London to see his friends from Canada.

Mr Monkey visits the Geffrye Museum, and looks at 30 St. Mary Axe, Leadenhall Market, and the WEEE man, takes a boat trip from Westminster to Greenwich, tours the Cutty Sark and a number of buildings in Greenwich, returns to Westminster, walks up Whitehall, and finally walks through docklands from Tower Hill to Shadwell. (75 pages)

Mr Monkey at the V&A
April 2005 - Mr Monkey visits London for an award ceremony.

Mr Monkey visits the Victoria and Albert Museum to see the International Arts and Crafts exhibition (which he couldn't photograph), and the Spectres exhibition. (7 pages)

Mr Monkey in London
February 2005 - Mr Monkey visits London for his friend's birthday.

Mr Monkey sees paintings by Turner, Whistler and Monet, has a short boat ride, visits the Fire Brigade Museum, looks at St Paul's Cathedral, sees Leicester Square before and after the BAFTAs, visits the Royal Academy's TURKS exhibition and the new Sainsburys African wing at the British Museum, and sees Trafalgar Square before and during Chinese New Year. (25 pages)

Mr Monkey in London
December 2004 - Mr Monkey visits London to see friends from foreign parts.

Mr Monkey sees a Norwegian tree, Admiralty Arch, Waterloo Place, some Christmas lights, Kirkaldy's Testing Museum and the Design Museum, and is almost monkeynapped by friends. (14 pages)

Mr Monkey at Tavistock Square
November/December 2004 - Mr Monkey has two short visits to London.

Mr Monkey examines Tavistock Square, and visits the Percival David foundation, the Petrie Museum, the Victoria and Albert, the British Museum, the Wellington Arch, Apsley House, the Theatre Museum, and Covent Garden. (21 pages)

Mr Monkey visits the Hayward and Tate Modern galleries
October 2004 - Mr Monkey pays a cultural visit to the South Bank.

Mr Monkey sees the Eyes, Lies and Illusions exhibition at the Hayward Gallery, looks at Gabriel's Wharf, and sees and hears exhibitions at Tate Modern. (7 pages)

Mr Monkey at Eltham Palace and Hampton Court
September 2004 - Mr Monkey celebrates Miss Carol's birthday in London.

Mr Monkey visits Canary Wharf, the Guildhall Clock Museum, Carnesky's Ghost Train, Eltham Palace, Hampton Court Palace, the Thames from Hampton Court to Westminster, St Bride's, the Honourable Company of Master Mariners, some of the Thames Festival and some interesting bits of the Strand, Aldwych and Fleet Street. (36 pages)

Mr Monkey at the Tower of London
July 2004 - Mr Monkey spends a day at the Tower of London.

Mr Monkey visits the White Tower, Wakefield Tower, and St Thomas' Tower, watches a duel, examines some armour and the site of some executions, then climbs to the top of the Monument and visits a new gallery at the British Museum. (18 pages)

 Mr Monkey on the Embankment
June 2004 - Mr Monkey stays in a hotel on the Embankment.

Mr Monkey visits a cabman's shelter, the OXO Tower, the Tate Modern, Somerset House, Covent Garden, Whithall, the Albert Embankment, Vauxhall Cross, the Museum of Garden History, the Saatchi Gallery, and the Foundling Museums, and sees several statues and an Olympic Torch. (21 pages)

 Mr Monkey in Hidden St Pancras
June 2004 - Mr Monkey takes a stroll behind St Pancras and King's Cross stations.

Mr Monkey follows a map in search of Sir John Soane's tomb, but encounters problems with construction work. (10 pages)

 Mr Monkey at RAF Hendon
June 2004 - Mr Monkey visits the Royal Air Force museum at Hendon

Mr Monkey inspects a wide range of aircraft, in the Milestones of Fight gallery, Bomber Command hall, Historic Hangers, Grahame-White Aircraft Factory, and the Battle of Britain Hall. (14 pages)

 Mr Monkey in Woolwich
April 2004 - another visit to London, in which Mr Monkey visits Woolwich

Mr Monkey visits the Royal Arsenal, Firepower, the Woolwich Foot Tunnel, the Woolwich Ferry, two more monuments on the Embankment, and the canal from Camden to King's Cross. (18 pages)

 Mr Monkey in South Kensington
March 2004 - Mr Monkey visits London again, to see the museums of South Kensington

Mr Monkey visits the Embankment, the Guards Museum, the Victoria and Albert Museum, and the Science Museum. (23 pages)

 Mr Monkey in London
December 2003 - Yet another short visit to London, mid-week this time

Mr Monkey visits a new gallery at the British Museum, Dulwich Picture Gallery, the Weather Project at Tate Modern, and the Olympia Exhibition Centre. (6 pages)

 Mr Monkey by the Thames
November 2003 - Mr Monkey visits London again, to tour a ship and meet some Americans

Mr Monkey tours HMS Belfast, visits the Golden Hinde when it's too dark to see properly, get caught in an Electric Storm, and fails to have a meal with friends. (9 pages)

 Mr Monkey's London Duck Tour
September 2003 - Mr Monkey trundles around London in a big yellow amphibious truck

Mr Monkey goes to London for a ride on a DUKW, passing the Houses of Parliament on land and water and going over and under Lambeth Bridge. (9 pages)

 Mr Monkey at the British Museum
July 2003 - Mr Monkey went to London, just for one day

Mr Monkey goes to tlook at an exhibition of strange things at the British Museum, then goes to Mark Billingham's book launch. (5 pages)

 Mr Monkey in Russell Square
March 2003 - Mr Monkey just can't stay away from London
Mr Monkey flies to London from Manchester, visits Leighton House, Kensington Park, the London Eye (in the dark), the London Canal museum, Camden locks, Hyde Park, the Wellington Arch, Buckingham Palace, the Cabinet War Rooms, Downing Street, the Sherlock Holmes pub, a Temple of Mithras, and the Royal College of Arms, then travels home first class. (21 pages)

 Mr Monkey in Bloomsbury
February 2003 - Mr Monkey goes to London again

Mr Monkey visits the National Army Museum, Battersea Park, the Sherlock Holmes Museum, the Millennium Bridge, the Globe Theatre, the Old Operating Theatre and Herb Garret, the Bramah Tea and Coffee Museum, Sir John Soanes Museum, and the London's Transport Museum. (20 pages)

 Mr Monkey visits the British Library
November 2002 - Mr Monkey visited London, to visit the British Library

Mr Monkey visits the Britsh Library, and Euston, St Pancras and Stafford stations. (5 pages)

 Mr Monkey in Chiswick
August 2002 - Mr Monkey had another weekend away, visiting a friend in Chiswick

Mr Monkey visits Russell Square, the University of London, Crime in Store, the Imperial War Museum, Hogarth's House, the grounds of Chiswick House, and his friend Miss Katarina's flat. (16 pages)

 Mr Monkey in London
September 2001 - Mr Monkey went to London for a weekend

Mr Monkey rides the London Eye, takes a boat to Greenwich, straddles the Prime Meridian, crosses the Thames by foot tunnel, and visits Trafalgar Square and the Great Court of the British Museum. (11 pictures)



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