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- agentfour0
Francis Bacon at Tate Britain is definately worth a look.
Also Kemistry gallery...as this new show sounds interesting:
First Impressions Last
23 October – 22 November 2008
Part performance-piece, part exhibition, part guessing-game; Kemistry Gallery and Fallon London have collaborated to challenge your self-image. We invite you to have your portrait written by five diverse people: from a rapper to a romance novelist.
http://kemistrygallery.co.uk- Thanks for the tips, looks like a cool exhibition/gallery********
- Thanks for the tips, looks like a cool exhibition/gallery
- Raniator0
you'll love it. just don't look at anyone. ever.
- +1sleepyfatso
- haha, why is that? could I get stabbed?********
- Never speak to anyone on the tube either, its not the done thing and mark you out as a touristharmsie
- Only because very few people on the tube are Londoners and they think everyone else is... Talk away!kingsteven
- ges0
http://www.hoxtonhotels.com/ is a great place to stay £1 room sale starts today at 12.00
- damnit.. to bad I don't know when we go.. lol... should be in november though.********
- damnit.. to bad I don't know when we go.. lol... should be in november though.
- harmsie0
Can I just say don't go to Piccadilly, its crap full of tourists. Go to the Tate Britain, take the Tate to Tate boat down to the Tate modern, then walk over the millennium bridge to ST Pauls, then carry on down to The Tower of London (crown Jewels) and Tower bridge, cross back over walk back up the other side, HMS belfast, the Globe theatre (which is having its roof re thatched) then go to Borough market (big food market) for something to eat.
My big tip though is just walk around buy a map, London is tiny, there are tube stop everywhere so if you get lost, you will stuble onto one. For example Go to westminster, walk through St james Park to Buckingham palace the over mable arch in to Hyde Park, walk though hyde park go to the Serpentine and the you go in to Knights brige for the V&A, Natural history and Science Musemes. Also they have Giant squid in the Natural history Mus, look up there website and book onto the tour to see it.
- ********0
I heard good things about the wallpaper city guide, so It would be a good idea to buy that one?!
- sleepyfatso0
I find the Timeout helpful to find out what's going on, comes out every week. Buy one when you arrive, £2.50 or something.
- ********0
ololol, the tube tickets are freakin expensive! haha
- Buy a pay as you go Oyster card, will save you loads, and take the busharmsie
- Also the rule is if you are on a double decker bus in london you have to sit on the topharmsie
- I meant ticks for belgium->london with train, thats the tube, right?********
- not that I would not sit at the top... but why is it a rule?********
- because londoners are a fucking funny joyless bunchkelpie
- ditto the eye contact and talking to strangers thing. freaky wierdos. great city thoughkelpie
- so no in the eye looking?
how do you pick up girls over there then?******** - Tell them they have nice shoesharmsie
- by the hipskelpie
- how else?kelpie
- You're coming with your dad to pick up girls?Ranger
- no, i was just asking man .. :p********
- harmsie is a nutkingsteven
- sleepyfatso0
- they're waiting to greet you, digdresleepyfatso
- chavs. I'll kick them ass********
- or are these no chavs********
- yes, they are chavs. with knives. and weed.Raniator
- i do one inch punch. gone knive. gone chavs.********
- itstimefortea0
design museum
brick lane (go for a curry!)
shoreditch (for like designy things)
borough market
kew gardens
my house- are you a hot chick? otherwise. scrap that last********
- ok scrap that last one... but do go to brick lane! on a sunday if possibleitstimefortea
- why? are there riots on sunday? :p********
- don't get a curry on Brick Lane - unless you like mediocre curry.rupedixon
- are you a hot chick? otherwise. scrap that last
- Fariska0
Agree with the above. And gimme a shout if you are there.
- hoopy0
here you go... buy this
- 23kon0
your dad maybe took you up on the offer, not for the art/design wonders of london, but maybe he's lookin forward to gettin away from your mum for a wee while and maybe wants to enjoy some of what Londons Soho has to offer :P
- maximillion_0
there are two Tates in London - and two outside london
http://www.tate.org.uk/informati… - the two on the left are London
- Yea, I figured that out yesterday. I think if I go to one it will be the Modern one********
- Tate Britain is also cool, not as conservative as it sounds. Some cool photography of London during the war.itstimefortea
- good choice and its huge - an old power station. last time i went they had some orig Pollocks in theremaximillion_
- And modern paintings like Lucian Freud. Also.. go to the Imperial War Museum.itstimefortea
- Yea, I figured that out yesterday. I think if I go to one it will be the Modern one
- kezza_20
If money is flexible Id stay here:
Zetter in Clerkenwell (really central and well placed between the west-end and East End)
http://www.thezetter.com/room_ra…
or
High Road House in Chiswick (20 mins from Picc circus. but in a nice part of town and something different)
http://www.highroadhouse.co.uk/3…Other than that look on hotels.com
Other places to go other than what you see written like museums etc...
Borough Market
Brick Lane on a Sunday
Pub crawl in soho
Walk through Hyde Park/Green Park/St James park on to the river. You can pretty much cross London without seeing a car.
Richmond is a great place to spend an afternoon
- ********0
seems all pretty cool.
I'm really looking for cheap places, like 20pound orso. I will only be there for sleeping.also, I might take a day off at school on friday and monday, so I have an extended weekend.
and it's not really about 'taking a day off'.. I just don't go to school then... lol
This is better i guess. makes it all more doable so I can visit all the stuff i want to see..
- ********0
And I just found out that Brussels -> heathrow is freakin cheap
even cheaper as the train.
- ********0
also funny, no one said to go visit big ben
lol :D
- Llyod0
don't go. it's full of limeys