(Shhh!)...A secret: some of the best stuff to do in London...is totally free! Oh yes. It cost nothing. Not a squid. Not a penny. Not a cheese cracker. Not even a potatoe. Nothingo. Zilch. ££Nil. Consider the above seminar at Imperial College for example: Free! And it's on Dinosaurs. Everybody loves Dinosaurs. And there's plenty more like it where it came from...Lectures on 'cloaking devices', the latest on Brazillian 'deforestation', 'bacterial sex dynamics' and how early earth meteorite bombardment may have contributed to making earth habitable to life. And there's tea and biscuits too. 'Refreshments' they call it. To refresh your mind after a hard hours concentration. You can take notes and ask pertinent questions and pretend you're back at university as an undergraduate - dreaming of changing the world - again.
Look if you really want to impress that lovely girlfriend of yours, you know show her how much you care and what a totally radical dude you are, what better way then to take her, for example, to the 'Royal College of Mines Annual Keynote Lecture on Explosive Hydrogen Sulphide Gaseous Pond Emissions' - It'll be a blast. She'll love you to the ends of the earth (literally). If she has a tantrum and starts throwing a mighty stink, you can blame the Hydrogen Sulphide...
