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Sophie Campbell
Guide, writer and contributor to national travel pages. Lives and works in the capital. Likes long walks.
It's June in London!
D-Day Weekend is a commemoration of the Normandy landings at the RAF Museum in Colindale, London (June 1/2)
Time for a peek...the ever-popular London Open Gardens Weekend celebrates its 25th birthday with 100 normally-secret green spaces opening up to the public (June 8/9)
Yeeee-ha! The Lambeth Country Show is 50 years old this year and pulls in locals and 'foreigners' - from, say, Wandsworth, to the tune of over 100,000 people - food, fun, music, family stuff, maybe even some twang (June 8/9)
Yippee - it's the London Festival of Architecture all month, at venues across the capital (until June 30)
Another much-loved regular is LIFT, or the London Festival of International Theatre, with events ranging from interactive theatre to activist plays to workshops for workers (June 5 to July 27)
Yum: Taste of London Food Festival takes over Regent's Park - look, learn, eat, drink and be merry (June 12-16)
The British Museums shows a stunning collection of drawings and studies in 'Michelangelo - The Last Decades' (until July 28)
The great Chaka Khan is curating Meltdown at the South Bank Centre this year - check out the music (June 14-23)
You know it's summer when Between the Bridges takes over the Queen's Walk, Southbank, with club nights, DJs, drag artists, food, fun and free entry to the main area every night (until Sept 1)
The pedestrianised South Kensington museums drag, Exhibition Road, celebrates science and the arts with games, shows, workshops and lots of clever people (June 15/16)
That perennial summer favourite (take a sweater) The Regent's Park Open Air Theatre presents 'Twelfth Night' to start the season and will end with 'Fiddler on the Roof' (ends Sept 30)
'Light into Life' is a show by Marc Quinn, with 17 extraordinary steel and bronze sculptures dotting Kew Gardens alongside his exhibition in the Shirley Sherwood Gallery (until Sep 29).
Is your artwork up there? The Royal Academy of Art opens its annual mega show of art by professional, amateurs and all steps between, the Summer Exhibition. Ignore the snooty comments and go, it's always fascinating (opens June 18)
Words, words, words - speak, declaim, explain, converse, argue, tell, listen - the Last Word Festival is back at the Roundhouse (June 6-30)
It's a hoot.. On Fridays throughout the summer London Zoo open 6pm - 10pm, just for adults. £21.50 for four hours with the animals (June 7 to July 26)
Last chance to see the hugely popular 'Legion - Life in the Roman Army' at the British Museum (until June 23)
The Raindance Festival (very appropriate after the spring we've had) sprinkles stardust on London's movie venues (June 19-28)
Hot! The V&A's exhibition on post-colonial West African and Indian architecture, Tropical Modernism, runs throughout the London summer (until September)
Oooh goody: a smorgasbord of musical performances from the stars and shows currently playing in the West End - all in the naturally dramatic venue of Trafalgar Square (June 22/23).
The Yoko Ono show at Tate Modern sheds light on the amazing career of a woman often overshadowed by her famous husband (until September 1)
Kensington Palace turns the spotlight on itself and its staff over the past 300 years in a show called 'Untold Lives' (until October 27)
Sands without End - dogs and people welcome at Neverland's Fulham Beach Club - general entry free, or book yourself a pergola sofa or a beach hut!
Another hardy perennial is the much-loved Holland Park Opera Festival, with an open-air auditorium, picnics and opera in sylvan surroundings (until Aug 10)
Don't miss
See the new Blavatnik Art, Film & Photography Galleries at the Imperial War Museum, free. Image @iwmart3062
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