If you are in London between now and the 14th October and you are near Trafalgar Square, take a look at Anthony Gormleys Fourth Plinth art project. Basically for 100 days a different member of the public takes their place on the fourth plinth for an hour and does something. What they do is entirely up to them, while I was there 1 man stood and chalked phrases on a giant blackboard for an hour, and responded to the crowd shouting things at him by writing his replies in chalk. Following this another guy got on there dressed as a Panda and held up his mobile number for people to call him on. An excellent idea and I believe he even had a call from Japan while he was up there but the only question in my mind is why the Panda suit?

To be honest I am not sure if its art, but it is definitely different and quite entertaining and at least on the first day there was a bit of a carnival atmosphere. Other people while I was there had balloons announcing that they didn't need a plinth to make art, and at one stage on girl even tried to pass food to the top of the plinth by balloon, but unfortunately the wind got the better of her.

The fourth plinth is in the northwest corner of the square has been empty since it was built in 1841 as there wasnt enough money to actually create a statue to put on it. This changed in 1998 when it has been used to display a number of works including a giant marble statue of artist Alison Lapper, and a model of a hotel in coloured glass by Thomas Shutte.

Getting to Trafalgar Square is easy, the three nearest stations are Embankment on the District Line, Charing Cross on the Northern, Bakerloo and National Railway lines, and Leicester Square on the Northern and Piccadilly lines.