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Posted by Addicted to Morphine on Fri Mar 10th at 2:15am 2006

In a week and a half I'm flying to London to visit a good buddy who is currently studying at the London School of Economics. Obviously, he'll be showing me around but since the SnarkPit has a great many Europeans I was wondering if any of you had any suggestions of what to see or do.

Any good bars you know of? Any good clubs? Any good museums, shows, events etc?




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Posted by Nickelplate on Fri Mar 10th at 2:19am 2006

OHYEAH! I went to london and I just loved it. There are so many great places to see!

  1. westminster abbey
  2. houses of parlaiment/big ben
  3. tower of london
  4. the OLD underground stations
  5. the old roman fort there, dont remember name
  6. downtown is cool
  7. piccadilly circus
  8. Shakespeare's Globe theatre
  9. the Tate modern art museum
  10. buckingham palace
  11. tower bridge
  12. london bridge
  13. the old city
  14. the east end where Jack the Ripper did his thing

many many more.

Please look up and visit a little goth pub called "the london stone" it's a fun place and you get a good hamburger and a free shirt if you drink thier 7 delicious mixed drinks named after the 7 mortal sins.




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Posted by Dark_Kilauea on Fri Mar 10th at 2:52am 2006

Hey, I'm currently mapping the outside of the british parilament for a mod, can you get me some pictures of the architecture. It's kinda hard to map it with only the pictures you get with google.

If you can't it's ok, I have it mostly done, just wanted to see if I did things right.


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Posted by Addicted to Morphine on Fri Mar 10th at 6:17am 2006

No promises, but I'll see what I can do Dark <img src=" SRC="images/smiles/icon_smile.gif">

Nickel, thanks for that list. I'll try to track down the london stone -- I want that tshirt! Although to be honest I doubt I could survive the mixed drinks.




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Posted by Gwil on Fri Mar 10th at 12:50pm 2006

While you're in London be sure to send a message to Mr Blair and Co that a whole nation exists outside of Westminster. Possibly you could burn the whole damn city to the ground too, maybe a little extreme.

Why not go to Stockwell tube station and see if you get shot by military intelligence agents, then be the subject of fabricated news reports to justify murder. Always fun.

Seriously though -

The Imperial War Museum
Tate Modern
The British Museum
St Pauls Cathedral
City of London (it's one square mile with the stock exchange etc, hectic)
Trafalgar Square/Nelsons Column
Millenium Dome? (it's now a casino I think, how ironic people throw money down the drain in the building that mastered the art of said action)
London Eye
Use a routemaster bus!
Camden and Soho (interesting suburbs, good markets - avoid the high street shops and go to independent stores here)


the "visitx" schemes are always helpful -

http://www.visitlondon.com/

Why not catch a train to Derby and come see the real Britain?






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Posted by fishy on Fri Mar 10th at 1:26pm 2006

? quoting Gwil

Why not catch a train to Derby and come see the real 'Little Britain'?

meh, i was only half right. when i seen that you'd posted in this one gwil, i was sure you'd be advising some burning and some pilaging.

so why no pilaging?




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Posted by Nickelplate on Fri Mar 10th at 2:20pm 2006

AtM: I survived the drinks. one of them is like an alcohol milkshake. Yummy.


I tried sniffing coke, but the ice cubes kept getting stuck in my nose.
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Posted by Gwil on Fri Mar 10th at 3:19pm 2006

Hey it's London, the capital that befits a placement on Mars - it's so alien to the rest of us! I wouldn't be doing my duty as a disloyal citizen if I wasn't heaping s**t on Londons good name to potential tourists, would I?




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Posted by Addicted to Morphine on Fri Mar 10th at 4:30pm 2006

? quoting fishy
meh, i was only half right. when i seen that you'd posted in this one gwil, i was sure you'd be advising some burning and some pilaging.

so why no pilaging?



The way the exchange rate is going these days I feel like London's gonna be the one doing the pillaging.

@Gwil, thanks for that list!




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Posted by fishy on Fri Mar 10th at 4:45pm 2006

? quoting Gwil
Hey it's London, the capital that befits a placement on Mars - it's so alien to the rest of us! I wouldn't be doing my duty as a disloyal citizen if I wasn't heaping s**t on Londons good name to potential tourists, would I?

my point exactly

:A

AtoM, it's been quiet since the rioting ended, so you'd probably get away with a trip to Nottinghill Gate, where Hendrix popped his clogs, to party with the locals.




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Posted by Nickelplate on Fri Mar 10th at 4:49pm 2006

? quoting Addicted to Morphine

The way the exchange rate is going these days I feel like London's gonna be the one doing the pillaging.

ABSOLUTELY TRUE. the dollar used to kick butt, but now it's everyone's B. When i went, the ex rate was exactly 1:2. 2USD = 1GBP it sucked so bad. the Pound menu at Mcdonalds is the 2 dollar menu. lol.




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Posted by Addicted to Morphine on Fri Mar 10th at 4:57pm 2006

? quoting Nickelplate
the Pound menu at Mcdonalds is the 2 dollar menu. lol.



<img src=" SRC="images/smiles/icon_lol.gif"> That's a good way to think about it, but I'm more worried about the cost of all the booze. I hope I can afford to paint the town red...




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Posted by Nickelplate on Fri Mar 10th at 5:19pm 2006

beer and cider are cheap enough there. for anything else, just use someone else's booze.

Also, you will LOVE their candy over there. Crunchie, "Fudge" and other cadbury bars are great!!! Also, I'm serious, try Heinz canned Spotted Dick or Treacle. it's yummy.




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Posted by Addicted to Morphine on Sun Mar 19th at 9:09pm 2006

Well -- I'll be leaving my house in an hour to catch my overnight flight to London. I'm not sure if I'll be taking a lot of pictures (I always feel too touristy and just put my camera away) but I'm bringing my camera just in case.

Dark, I'll try to get shots of the outside of British Parliament if I can, meanwhile check out this site: http://www.parliament.uk/visiting/panoramas.cfm

I haven't looked through the content but that might help.



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Posted by ReNo on Sun Mar 19th at 9:16pm 2006

Have a great time mate <img src=" SRC="images/smiles/icon_smile.gif">



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Posted by Orpheus on Sun Mar 19th at 9:20pm 2006

f**k looking like a tourist. Take pictures and enjoy.

Be safe, you know how those Brits are.





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Posted by Dred_furst on Sun Mar 19th at 9:23pm 2006

? quote:
Hey, I'm currently mapping the outside of the british parilament for a mod, can you get me some pictures of the architecture. It's kinda hard to map it with only the pictures you get with google.


Cant the police arrest you for "Plotting Terrorism" for taking photos of important government buildings?


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Posted by Addicted to Morphine on Sun Mar 19th at 9:26pm 2006

Maybe. I know I wanted to do a movie in the subways in NYC and my Professor said it was a bad idea. Everyone is so anti-terrorist I can't even shoot a short love story. image

Edit: Thanks for the well wishes !



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Posted by Dark_Kilauea on Mon Mar 20th at 8:17am 2006

Thanks a lot man, I've managed to complete the map, you guys will have to look for it in Black Mesa: East <img src=" SRC="images/smiles/icon_smile.gif">


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Posted by Toast King on Mon Mar 20th at 3:33pm 2006

Been to London, so beatuful. Just beware of the tube <img src=" SRC="images/smiles/icon_wink.gif">


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