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After a bit of worrying and panicking and phoning round people, I've finally managed to organise my holiday for the year! Woohoo! So, this week, I'm off to London.

Now, I've been there many many times in the past, but I always get the feeling that I keep going back to the same places and parts of the city over and over again. So, this is the thread where you tell me what places I should visit that I might not know about.

(mostly places to go and things to see, but I'd also like to know about cheap little cafe-type places where I can go for lunch on my own without feeling stupid, idiotic or underdressed. I never know any, so always end up eating in fast-food places instead.)

(I know this has been done spread over numerous threads in the past, but this is also the thread where you can combine the BEST BITS into a single nice and succinct one :-)

― caitlin (caitlin), Saturday, 7 June 2003 12:53 (twenty-two years ago)

It's summer and I reckon it'll be nice next week. See lots of green leafy parky places - Greenwich, Richmond, Hampstead etc. Also go down the Thames in a boat - best way to see London.

There's a London cafe thread somewhere around as well ;)

Oh, and Gareth to thread!

― Matt DC (Matt DC), Saturday, 7 June 2003 12:56 (twenty-two years ago)

london cafes s/d

― Matt DC (Matt DC), Saturday, 7 June 2003 12:57 (twenty-two years ago)

Oh, and Gareth to thread!

heathrow is good, you can get to nyc that way

― gareth (gareth), Saturday, 7 June 2003 15:07 (twenty-two years ago)

one month passes...

what did you do in the end and which bits did you enjoy?

(am looking for ideas)

andy

― koogs (koogs), Friday, 25 July 2003 21:16 (twenty-two years ago)

I've just got back from the stinking shitheap.

It smells. The air quality is unliveable. The landmarks are either horrible reminders of a shitty class-ridden empire or disgustingly proud slabshrines to the pound. I am reminded of the quote "a dinosaur too stupid to know it is dead".

Viva La North West!

― Lynskey (Lynskey), Friday, 25 July 2003 21:40 (twenty-two years ago)

you're just jealous cos we have in-house toilets down here, sometimes even 2 in the same abode

― stevem (blueski), Friday, 25 July 2003 21:43 (twenty-two years ago)

The thing is, by almost every objective criteria (variety of night life/other cultural events, work opportunities, and historical gravitas being the exceptions) London completely fails as a major city, and as a place to live generally. But I guess those are enough.

― N. (nickdastoor), Saturday, 26 July 2003 00:20 (twenty-two years ago)

In the end, I did this:

visited the Sir John Soane's museum, the Serpentine Gallery and the V&A.
wandered round quite a bit and sat about in parks
had a picnic in Greenwich Park (with Mark H, among other people)
went to a Eurovision Song Contest Night at a bar near Charing Cross (not my idea).

The last one, I hated. The rest was pretty good, although frankly the weather was a bit too hot to enjoy wandering around very much.

― caitlin (caitlin), Saturday, 26 July 2003 09:19 (twenty-two years ago)

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