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Longer pieces about indoor London. Where to go when it is pouring, what is worth the money, and the places most people walk straight past.

• Eight places that made me think: this would be a great date: I have been married a good while. Nobody needs me to find a date venue. The instinct has not got the memo.
• Your mate has flown in, it is raining, and London's reputation is now your problem: Five places that make London look like the city they were promised, none of which involve standing in it.
• Nine free places in London where nobody queues: Everyone knows the British Museum is free. Everyone also knows what the queue looks like at eleven on a wet Sunday. These nine are free too, and largely empty.