Too many to choose from! But one that’s lesser known is 2 Willow Road. It’s the modernist home of architect Erno Goldfinger and his wife, Ursula. It’s not open every day, and you do need to book in advance, but it’s worth it! It’s full of furniture Goldfinger designed himself and preserved pretty much as it was when they lived there. Around the house are works from their personal collection, like Marcel Duchamp’s Rotoreliefs, hung salon-style in the living room. Prunella Clough, Bridget Riley, Max Ernst, Jean Arp and Eileen Agar are also around. It’s in Hampstead right opposite the Heath, so you can stroll over there afterwards.

One we both agree on is Bruegel’s tiny grisaille Christ and the Woman at The Courtauld. Painted in shades of grey, it’s one of only three surviving grisaille paintings by Bruegel and is easy to miss among some of the museum’s more famous works. It’s on the second floor in the Medieval rooms. It was stolen from The Courtauld in the 1980s and was missing for ten years, before eventually being recovered by an ‘art detective’.

The London in Closer (2004) is cynical but maybe one of the more convincing. The city looks beautiful, expensive and everyone is having a bad time. You can take a Closer inspired trip to the top-floor restaurant at the National Portrait Gallery for panoramic views and order a vodka tonic just like Julia Roberts.

A section of the ancient Roman wall of Londinium is still standing in an underground car park by the Barbican. Zazou Roddam put us onto it through a series of works she made in 2025. It’s nearly 2,000 years old and just sits there amongst the concrete and parked cars.

There’s a Derek Jarman plaque around the corner from our flat in Islington, he lived there in the 1960s while working on the set design for a production at Sadler’s Wells. Apparently he hated the area and nicknamed it ‘Drizzlington’. His set design was pretty cool though, inspired by Paul Nash and de Chirico.