going to London in April-advice needed(edit: nevermind)

chime

If you are interested in art you could go to the Tate Modern and then walk over the Millenium Bridge to St Paul's Cathedral (if you go at the right time when there is no service on you can walk up the stairs to the top) ... if you are around St Paul's at a weekend it will be quiet and a lot of the restaurants etc shut as it is surrounded by office buildings and the area kind of shuts down at weekends. But it is not too far from Spitalfields and the area Byrnzie was talking about for bars.

Camden can be fun if a little strange.

If the weather is nice may be buy lunch and go and eat it in one of the many parks ... Hyde Park, Green Park, St James' Park, Kensington Gardens, Regent's Park.

If you want to see a show I'd recommend The National Theatre. It contains three theatres and for some shows if you book far enough in advance you can get tickets for £10. It is right on the river so a nice place to sit outside for a drink even if you don't go to a show http://www.nationaltheatre.org.uk/

dunkman

I did the Houses of Parliament tour and it was really really fascinating... it's not free, but it was pretty amazing to be in the House of Commons and the House of Lords...

Also, British Museum is vast. easily spend a whole day there.

Tate Modern is utter shite. National Gallery is better cos they have paintings in there that look like stuff, the Tate Modern has things like a cabbage with two electrodes in it and a sign above saying "Invalid" ... and other such crap.

:thumbup:

chime

If you decide to go to the National Gallery I would suggest the National Portrait Gallery aswell which is just around the corner ... I actually prefer it.

redrock

dunkman wrote:

Tate Modern is utter shite.

:shock: :shock:

Get_Right

Digital Twilight wrote:

Cheese and pickle sandwhiches are one of my favs.

Did you try Piccallili when you were over? Thats good with cheese too

I did not but now must have some!
And I happen to agree with Dunk about the parliament tour and the Tate modern, I enjoyed the national much more

Sian-of-the-dead

redrock wrote:

dunkman wrote:

Tate Modern is utter shite.

:shock: :shock:

It's OK Rita, he's just trying to get a reaction

Tate Modern is a great place to visit :thumbup:

dunkman

redrock wrote:

dunkman wrote:

Tate Modern is utter shite.

:shock: :shock:

http://www.tate.org.uk/modern/explore/w ... 5&action=1

http://www.tate.org.uk/collection/X/X06/X06204_9.jpg
Volkswagen bus with twenty-four wooden sleds, each with felt, belts?, flashlight, fat and stamped with Braunkreuz (brown
object: 2000 x 4000 x 10000 mm
installation


basically, it's a fucking VW camper van with the leftover sleds of 24 morons who decided to sled their way to see an exhibition. :thumbup:

utter pretentious drivel.

dunkman

Sian-of-the-dead wrote:

redrock wrote:

dunkman wrote:

Tate Modern is utter shite.

:shock: :shock:

It's OK Rita, he's just trying to get a reaction

Tate Modern is a great place to visit :thumbup:

trying to get a reaction? if i was I wouldn't post my thoughts about the Tate Modern on a music forum... i'd be more inclined to glue 20 bits of cord to a papermache pelmet and hang it up and shout "oh, look at my art"

oh wait... some clown has already done that!

http://www.tate.org.uk/modern/explore/w ... 9&action=1

Kel Varnsen

dunkman wrote:

Also, British Museum is vast. easily spend a whole day there.

I thought the British Museum was just ok. They had some amazing things in there collection but I also found it very dry and not very engaging, (they basically just showed off all the stuff they had). The science museum and the natural history museum were both awesome though (and both free also).

Also if you are into beer you can take the tube to Chiswick and go on the Fuller's brewery tour. It was really fun and had some very historic areas. Plus they basically give you all the free samples you can drink in the time allotted once the tour ends.

justam

Go to the art museums.

Brisk.

dunkman wrote:

trying to get a reaction? if i was I wouldn't post my thoughts about the Tate Modern on a music forum... i'd be more inclined to glue 20 bits of cord to a papermache pelmet and hang it up and shout "oh, look at my art"

oh wait... some clown has already done that!

http://www.tate.org.uk/modern/explore/w ... 9&action=1

what of a load of cac.

Digital Twilight

Try as many of 'real ales' or 'guest ales' as possible

Kel Varnsen

Digital Twilight wrote:

Try as many of 'real ales' or 'guest ales' as possible

Speaking of which, lots of pubs have deals going, where if you try say 5 british ales from 5 different pubs in the same chain they will give you a free shirt. They say you are only supposed to do 2 drinks per day, but they totally don't enforce it. If you want free, cool looking pub t-shirts, (and drink delicious beer while getting them) check it out.

jammergirl

I'm seriously writing down all this info that you guys are giving me, thanks again! I'm going to have our entire trip planned, I hope my sis isn't mad!

regarding the modern museum being discussed, that totally reminds me of when I took my dad to a modern art exhibition in reno. One piece of art was literally a few power cords laying in an empty room. so of course my dad, in a loud voice says "hey, it looks like my garage! hey Darcy, apparently I'm a goddamn artist and i didn't even KNOW it!!" we were asked to leave after that. no joke. :roll:

Byrnzie

Kel Varnsen wrote:

I thought the British Museum was just ok. They had some amazing things in there collection but I also found it very dry and not very engaging, (they basically just showed off all the stuff they had).

I love the British Museum. It's the best museum in the world. And it's a great place to escape the crowds in the West End. You can easily spend a whole day in there. Nearby (Bloomsbury) there are some cool old fashioned bookshops that specialize in selling rarities, and occult books e.t.c.

Byrnzie

Also, make sure you get yourself over to Camden Town on a Saturday or Sunday. It's on the Northern line, two stops past Euston station. It's where all the 'alternative' types hang out - punks, goths, grungers, hippies, e.t.c. I used to go there every weekend for about 3 or 4 years when I was younger. Take a walk around the market, and walk up to the Lock where there's an indoor market. You'll find some cool record shops, cheap clothes shops, 2nd hand books, nice pubs, and really nice food from all over the world. Another place you could easily spend a day. If it's your first time in London then it's a must.

Hinn

Catch a gig. Something. Anything.

Go have a drink at the Royal George.

Take a walk down Denmark Street and check out all the music shops.

Find 3 other people to do a photo op at the Abbey Road crossing with ya. Make sure one of yers go without shoes.

Head down to Spitalfields/Brick Lane markets on Sunday.

Try to find someone who's actually London born-and-bred