Spots

Trafalgar Square's quietest secret — free, central, two-hour visit doable.

Queen Mary's rose garden in June. Primrose Hill at sunset, year-round.

Serpentine swim in summer, Speaker's Corner on Sunday, Winter Wonderland in December.

Green to match the Commons. Stand mid-span at dawn for the Wordsworth view.

Art-deco Mayfair grand — Antony Gormley 'ROOM' suite is a suite you sleep inside a sculpture.

Best chamber-music acoustic in Europe — lunchtime concerts £16, BBC Radio 3 broadcasts weekly.

Leicester Square's rep cinema — 35mm sing-alongs, all-nighters, cheapest cinema seats in central London.

Frith Street since 1959 — jazz's London address. Late set is the real one; book weeks ahead.