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Tate Modern. My favourite place in london.

Tate Modern is a really weird place...
Went there for a photography exhibition on a college trip... the photos were... interesting.

Shame you don't have more time.

Could come visit me in Notts - come round Warhammer World, lol!

Anywhere that sells good quality stabproof/bulletproof vests.

A life insurance company.

Then all the museums and stuff.

GazzyG wrote:Shame you don't have more time.

Could come visit me in Notts - come round Warhammer World, lol!

I actually considered that. I know GW HQ is there but I think its just a big statue of a space marine. What's Warhammer World?

Warhammer World is GWHQ. Yes there's a big statue of a Marine lol, well multiple, along with others.

There's also Bugmans Bar and the Citadel Hall of miniatures, as well as a large GW and the biggest gaming hall you ever did see.

Tbh, though - it's good but probably not worth the 2hr trip from London unless you really wanted to see it.

I do but I don't think it's going to happen. My "for sure" list right now is just British Museum, Imperial War Museum, Natural History Museum, British Library and The Tower of London.
Seriously, you guys need to come up with some better names: "British Museum", "British Library"? Should be The Right, Honourable, Proper Librarium-Anthenaeum III.

In Soviet Britian everything is British!
It's mainly due to the Empire, some of those buildings are really damn old...

Leicester Square
Piccadilly Circus
Trafalgar Square
The National Gallery (as long as you're at Trafalgar Square anyway!)
Westminster Abbey (and the famous people buried there)
Changing of the Guard at Buckingham Palace
Tower Bridge
Tower Of London
The British Museum

And if you can catch a train from London these are good day trips because we've done it:

Stonehenge (by way of Salisbury)
Colchester (first city in the UK it was built by the Romans, lots of Roman artifacts and a huge section of Roman wall around the town still stands)
Dover (the castle, Roman ruins, the cliffs, it's all great)

There is always Crouch End, but you might not come back.

Some more touristy stuff if you have time are the London Dungeons and Tussaud's Wax Museum.

Greenwich is nice, especially on saturday when the market is on. There's also the meridian/observatory, which is very cool. It's literally the center of the world! Plus the park is beautiful, and offers spectacular views of the city.

Nice pubs in Greenwich, too.

What else...? Oh, you could visit Abbey Road? I've always fancied doing that...

Games-Workshop.

Pubs.

The rest is meh..

Behave! London is full of awesome stuff.

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Albatross wrote:Behave! London is full of awesome stuff.

Well I was only kidding of course..

But yeah, the pubs are the BEST thing about London.

Is it true you guys don't have laws against drinking in public?

KamikazeCanuck wrote:Is it true you guys don't have laws against drinking in public?

You might be stopped if you're causing a disturbance but i have never been stopped for it and i was under age most of the time...

KamikazeCanuck wrote:Is it true you guys don't have laws against drinking in public?

We quite often drink in the park during the summer. If you're walking through the town centre, however, that might attract attention from the rozzers.

purplefood wrote:The Imperial War Museum-Great collection of things that used to be used to kill people...
HMS Belfast-Big arse battleship...

On my last jaunt to london i went on Hms Belfast , and it was rubbish , if you're above about 5 and a half feet you will spend all you time stooping , its stunk , which they do delberately to make it more "realistic" it just gave me a blinding head ache , it is massively overpriced and boiling below the first couple of decks

I would recomend the natural history museum , completely free and it has some amazing stuff , same with the victoria and albert museum , not my thing as it s a mainly clothing museum but it apparently really good.The normal touristy place like big ben and westminster abbey are good.

My favourite thing in london is tower bridge , just because ,Seeing the shard up close seems liek it could be interesting.

blackclaw1 wrote:

purplefood wrote:The Imperial War Museum-Great collection of things that used to be used to kill people...
HMS Belfast-Big arse battleship...

On my last jaunt to london i went on Hms Belfast , and it was rubbish , if you're above about 5 and a half feet you will spend all you time stooping , its stunk , which they do delberately to make it more "realistic" it just gave me a blinding head ache , it is massively overpriced and boiling below the first couple of decks

I would recomend the natural history museum , completely free and it has some amazing stuff , same with the victoria and albert museum , not my thing as it s a mainly clothing museum but it apparently really good.The normal touristy place like big ben and westminster abbey are good.

My favourite thing in london is tower bridge , just because ,Seeing the shard up close seems liek it could be interesting.

I liked it... then again when i went i was under 5 and a half feet so go figure...

GazzyG wrote:

KamikazeCanuck wrote:Is it true you guys don't have laws against drinking in public?

We quite often drink in the park during the summer. If you're walking through the town centre, however, that might attract attention from the rozzers.

The whozzers?

KamikazeCanuck wrote:

GazzyG wrote:

KamikazeCanuck wrote:Is it true you guys don't have laws against drinking in public?

We quite often drink in the park during the summer. If you're walking through the town centre, however, that might attract attention from the rozzers.

The whozzers?

The fuzz...
The police.

KamikazeCanuck wrote:Is it true you guys don't have laws against drinking in public?

There are some town centres which have been made "no piss-up" zones.

In general, though, if you want to take a picnic hamper including alcoholic beverages to a public park you will have no problem.

Also, many pubs and restaurants have outside seating at the front, which obviously is in public.

Kilkrazy wrote:

KamikazeCanuck wrote:Is it true you guys don't have laws against drinking in public?

There are some town centres which have been made "no piss-up" zones.

In general, though, if you want to take a picnic hamper including alcoholic beverages to a public park you will have no problem.

Also, many pubs and restaurants have outside seating at the front, which obviously is in public.

In Canada if I were to walk down the street with an open beer in my hand I will get a ticket (not being a druken moron or anything like that). Over there?

We're generally pretty relaxed about alcohol consumption in the Uk. More than relaxed in fact.....to quote the IT crowd, 'When did the English start drinking like that? It's like they don't want to live!'

Cool. Sure I won't have time anyway. Save the drinking for Edinburgh probably

Too expensive to drink in London anyway....

Albatross wrote:Too expensive to drink in London anyway....

Not if you go to the Wetherspoons in Westminster!

Ketara wrote:

Albatross wrote:Too expensive to drink in London anyway....

Not if you go to the Wetherspoons in Westminster!

Spoons is expensive unless you order the rubbish stuff.