London is free

A web site after my own heart: http://www.londonisfree.com

Just check out some things going on this week:

• 2nd Thursdays, Angel Poetry is a literary event at the Borders Bookshops in the N1 Centre.
• June 9-22, Greenwich is the place to be as it hosts London's most spectacular free Festival.
• June 14, World Naked Bike Ride, Hyde Park
• June 15, The Marylebone Village Summer Fayre is an annual event of dancing, shopping and eating.

Plus all summer:

• Every day in June, six different eateries will be offering 50% off all meals.
• All summer, the "More London Festival" offers free film, free music, and free theatre at "the Scoop" -- a clever name for a sunken open-air amphitheatre on the South Bank. (Tonight I saw Buster Keaton's "The General.")
• June 21 and 22, "West End Live" presents acts from musicals such as Avenue Q, Buddy, Chicago, Dirty Dancing, Grease The Musical, The Sound of Music, Joseph and the Amazing Technicolour Dreamcoat, Mamma Mia! Stomp and The Lord of the Rings in Leicester Square.
• June 28 and 29, Carnival De Cuba brings Latin America alive in Southwark Park, ending with a colourful conga procession around the park.
• June 30-July 1, Canada Day includes a street hockey tournament in Trafalgar Square.
• July 6, the 50th anniversary Bossa Nova Festival on Southbank
• July 4 - September 14, the National Theatre becomes an outdoor theatre, plus street theatre, bands, club nights, dance, cabaret and spectacle.
• July 19-20, The Lambeth Country Show with music, arts, crafts, funfair rides, outdoor zoos, steam engines, reggae, and brass bands.
• August 3, Carnaval del Pueblo takes place on four different stages, plus a costumed float procession 3 miles from City Hall to Camberwell's Burgess Park
• August 24-25 (August Bank Holiday), the Notting Hill Carnival is Europe's biggest street party.
• September 13-14, The Mayor's Thames Festival signals the end of the festival season and features events and entertainment on land and water, including arts, illuminations, river events, street theatre, massed choirs and music, to the festival's climactic event, a spectacular Night Carnival and the ultimate fireworks display.

And of course, all museums here are free, as well. I may be living on the streets, but I'll be doing it in style!