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- jedi12
I am in London for the 1st time. Any recommendations besides the obvious tourist stuff?
- Mojo0
Don't buy any leather jackets
- detritus0
Buy leather jackets.
- marychain0
PLEATHER jackets definetly
- detritus0
If you're here yesterday, you could go to the QBN drinks meet up.
- jedi120
Wow! I haven't broadcasted on here since 1999. I forgot how useless it is.
- Its gotten a lot worse since then.CygnusZero4
- well not everyone trolls qbn on the weekend.Stugoo
- This question gets asked all the time - if you can't be bothered to search, we can't be bothered to help.detritus
- marychain0
Get one of these
Then walk around and loudly ask people...
"Oi mate.....fancy a trip in the Tardis?"You'll be sure to make LOT's of new friends
- akrokdesign0
i would drop by a few nice design studios. ex. nb. why not.
- with some biscuits. tea?! they got.akrokdesign
- Drop by nice design studios? Do you actually do this?MrT
- ismith0
Go ta a lecture at the Architectural Association.
- utopian0
buy a tracksuit
- olem0
you should check out the portobello road market in notting hill. and also, though it may fall under the category obvious tourist stuff, you really should check out the london eye. in the middle of all the other obvious tourist places.
i visited london this fall and were amazed by the new darwin centre at the natural history museum (great museum by the way). i find myself to like the areas in and around soho and covent garden.
last, but not least. i just heard that they're planning to remove the crossing in abbey road this year (where the famous beatles cover were shot), because of dangerous situations with people taking photos - so if you're a fan - check it out before it's too late.
- clearThoughts0
Make sure you check out the Starbucks in Camden Town and the McDonalds in Tottenham Court Road.
Not as good as the American Apparel shop in Shoreditch but almost as unique as the H&M in Oxford Street.If you need to check out your emails you can always pop down to the EasyInternet in Bondstreet and get a Subway 6" while you wait.
- ********0
Shoreditch pubs, Jaguar Shoes for drinks, Commercial road for drugs, Blunder into some rave, then go get a salmon cream cheese bagel on brick lane before sunrise, pass out in hoxton square.
- RoyBoyII0
Leave
- JerseyRaindog0
Visit the ICA and buy some weird Japanese books.
- re_solution0
expected stuff, bricklane (sunday only) via crap spitafields beer at ten bells, then walk to flower market . Tate, British Museum, Tower of London, busbabi eathai for cheap food, polpo (soho), london unlike websute, timeout, qype. design museum.. not west.
- ********0
I really recommend Busaba as well. Go to Inamo on Wardour Street as well for a great and unique eating experience.
Brick Lane/Spitalfields on a Sunday during the day.(East London)
Borough Market (massive food market, and just great to see) - London Bridge.
Greenwich is really nice - Go there by DLR
- vespa0
Decode exhibition @ the V&A
http://www.vam.ac.uk/microsites/…Van Doesburg and the International Avant-Garde @ Tate Modern
http://www.tate.org.uk/modern/ex…Tate Modern also has some brilliant short courses, like the paper engineering (aka the pop up book) course starting up soon on Mondays.
Watch a silent film with live musical accompanyment @ The Barbican
http://www.barbican.org.uk/film/…Go to the Electric Cinema on Portobello road, they have leather sofas for 2 people at the back, a bar in the cinema, food, a little side table with an embedded wine holder, lovely.
Bumble around for interior designey things on Marylebone High St -- start at the top at the Conran Shop and carry on past the Monocle headquarters... half way down the street there is a war memorabilia shop that sells the weirdest stuff ever.
The Serpentine Gallery in Hyde Park is one of the best galleries in London. And it's free. Once the weather improves they will start up their Park Nights series which are brilliant.
Have your eardrums destroyed by Japanese Londoners Bo Ningen and their extra special brand of audio disorder at the Whitechapel Gallery this Friday. Where Three Dreams Cross (150 years of photography from India, Pakistan and Bangladesh) is also on.
- flashbender0
There's a Dieter Rams exhibit at the Design Museum until the end of the month
http://designmuseum.org/design/d…
and go to St. Brides Church which has stood on the same plot of London soil for 1500 years. The basement still has roman and norman building remains.
- WeLoveNoise0
what Vespa said........
Decode exhibition @ the V&A museum was really good and highly recommend
http://www.vam.ac.uk/microsites/…
- flashbender0
alsoo for general things, check out the archived posts at http://www.tiredoflondontiredofl…