Reply to: Day out in London...

[bobspud]

Hi,
you can take the Thames Clipper boat from Embankment up to The O2 which is quite nice on a late sunny afternoon

[tjacks55]

^ Yeah I agree, Kew Gardens is really good as its less touristy. I love it! How about catching a gig at Camden's KOKO or going to the London Film Museum? Seeing a play or a musical is a typical thing to do in London, but I never get bored of doing this as there's so many shows to see! I recently saw Wizard of Oz London which was SO good. I've loved the show since a kid so it was great to see it brought to life like that!

[yasockie]

It'd be very interesting to hear some 'out there' ideas - having lived in London for a while, the places I enjoyed the most were not the obvious ones - having a swim in Hampstead Heath Lido, for example, butterfly exhibition at Kew Gardens etc

[darmstadt]

If you go on a boat to Greenwich, make sure to take the right one. There are commuter ones and tourist ones, the tourist one gives a good commentary. I recommend the tourist one. (Don't know the name, but it travels between Westminster and Greenwich and also docks at London Eye when going upriver and the Tower of London on the way both up and down, I think.)

The ticket allows you to hop on and off as often as you like on the day, so you can make a round trip and stop at the Tower and Greenwich for as long as you like.

(The commentary is mostly between Westminster and the Tower, there's less to say between Tower and Greenwich.)

WHS. I did that last year just from Westminster (so you can first look at Parliament) then got off at the Tower (I get complimentary tickets to go inside lucky enough.) The commentary was a good laugh and very interesting and the weather was excellent. Then walk up from the Tower to the Monument (great cab drivers cafe there) and then through to St. Pauls. Get a daily bus ticket and from St. Pauls you can get a bus to most places, I stopped off at the British Museum which is very interesting but the Science Museum is the top one for me (there is a toy museum hidden nearby as well which is not as well publicised.)

[Jog On]

Go up the Monument. If you suffer from either dizziness or vertigo or both it's an absolute blast!

[IR35 Avoider]

If you go on a boat to Greenwich, make sure to take the right one. There are commuter ones and tourist ones, the tourist one gives a good commentary. I recommend the tourist one. (Don't know the name, but it travels between Westminster and Greenwich and also docks at London Eye when going upriver and the Tower of London on the way both up and down, I think.)

The ticket allows you to hop on and off as often as you like on the day, so you can make a round trip and stop at the Tower and Greenwich for as long as you like.

(The commentary is mostly between Westminster and the Tower, there's less to say between Tower and Greenwich.)

[wobbegong]

I did a spell as a motorcycle courier in London in my student days. Riding in on the A13 on summer mornings you could see a yellow/green haze over the city. I wore a DIY filter mask under the bike helmet and threw them away at the end of each day cos if you pulled it in half it was black all the way through.

On the plus side, parking the bike up in Soho Square of a lunch time did provide some cracking sight seeing when the girls came out of the local offices for lunch

I did the old courier bit in late '83 to spring '84 at Addison Lee and a small family run set up in Fulham. Commuting in and out from the East you'd certainly go through some of the crappier parts. I wonder if my old CX is still on the road.

[DaveB]

Did that the last time I went to London. Seven years ago, not been since. Disgustingly filthy place.

I did a spell as a motorcycle courier in London in my student days. Riding in on the A13 on summer mornings you could see a yellow/green haze over the city. I wore a DIY filter mask under the bike helmet and threw them away at the end of each day cos if you pulled it in half it was black all the way through.

On the plus side, parking the bike up in Soho Square of a lunch time did provide some cracking sight seeing when the girls came out of the local offices for lunch

Back on topic, the only reason we go down there these days is for a specific event like the Chelsea Flower Show.

[kaiser78]

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Did this last year - absolutely superb !!

[wobbegong]

And then you can get her to blow her nose and be amazed at the colour of her snot and imagine how much of that black stuff made it into her lungs!!

Did that the last time I went to London. Seven years ago, not been since. Disgustingly filthy place.

[tjacks55]

All I can think of this time of year is aaaaarrrrrrrggggghhhhh tourists

Yeah I know its awful! They are running out of numbers and walk so slowly in the tube make me mad every morning going to work....

[BoredBloke]

Do the tourist thing.
Assuming you're a Northerner though, you could just show her the metal tubes that go under the ground and that electrickery thing. She'll be blown away by those.

And then you can get her to blow her nose and be amazed at the colour of her snot and imagine how much of that black stuff made it into her lungs!!

[BoredBloke]

The British Museum is excellent for historical stuff.

No tulip!! Always wondered what they kept in those museum thingys!

Don't do the London Dungeon as it's w@nk!

[Moscow Mule]

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Who would go out in the centre of London for example?

People going to see a show maybe?

[scooterscot]

I'm not surprised some people dislike London.
Who would go out in the centre of London for example?

Londoners go to their locals/restaurants in areas like Putney, Richmond, BelleVue, Earlsfield, St Johns Street just to name a few of my favourite places