Help: TKO goes to England

To be heard... natch.

As I probably said already, I've only been to Heathrow, wherein I sneezed for 2.5 hours, (I'm apparently allergic to facility cleaning sprays) waiting for a plane, and, liberated by my husband watching the luggage, my turn, checked out the Missoni shop (waves hand) and then went to the bar to see what they had in single malts, up for, oh, 28 hrs at that point.

Nothing, they had nothing. My first clue how the british isles are arranged.

Landed at LAX,tired and thirsty,asked for a beer.What I tasted was yuch! After a few more "samples" I settled on Anchor Steam,a local brew.I avoided the most popular brews from then on.

Oh, Barry, I can only agree.

Oh LA? Yuck.

Hate that place. Mean people.

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When I was in London for the first time (some dozen times by now), I found Londoners to be very kind and helpful (and still do so now): even if I was only 14 years old, I got a guest member card for a club. (Okay, "100 Club" on Oxford Street, which wasn't really a "private club" and they didn't give me a beer ... )

Hey genoves, have you seen the Michael Moore film "Sicko"? It's good.

It's nice to visit the Tate Modern- nice cafe, good food- by the side of the river, and walk across the wobbly bridge to St Paul's Catherdral area. Last time I was there, I went to Monument (it's a tube station, near Bank (the Bank of England- which has a free money museum btw) and climbed to the top of the actual monument which is a tower commemorating the Great Fire of London 1666. The views from the top are rewarding.

If you walk down Ludgate Hill from St Paul's you can walk up Fleet Street, and go into Ye Olde Cheshire Cheese, a pub dating from before the fire.
From there you can reach Covent Garden on foot, maybe going through Lincoln's Inn Fields which is interesting, not fields but the traditional haunts of lawyers, barristers, the robbing classes.

London is awfully big.

Enjoy!

Noted!

Update: My new passport arrived today. The new passports look weird IMO. I mean they have some really weird stuff in them. Like on the last page, there is a picture of Voyager (the space probe). Is this a hint that my passport may be good for interplanetary travel?

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Noted, and thank you very much, I suppose you meant.

One thing we enjoyed with friends, and it's great on a sunny day, is to go down to Greenwich (there's plenty to see down there, including the Market and the Royal Observatory (Greenwich 0 meridian and all that) then get on the boat and sail up the river to the Palace of Westminster. You'll see plenty of historic London on that trip.

You can get to Greenwich on the Tube.

Here's a map.

Get a weekly Tube ticket/ Oyster card for tube and buses, it's well worth it.

http://www.tfl.gov.uk/assets/downloads/standard-tube-map.pdf

That's what the "!" indicated, McT.


(And "u" means "you", btw.)

(And "btw" means "by the way".)

Thanks Tico, you're a treasure. What would I do without you?

Suffer.

Okay not the Tube exactly, on the DLR (docklands light railway, which is quite fun, and links in with the Tube network, one of the seven wonders of the ancient world)

That boat trip is already a given McT.It's just THE best way to "enter" London.

"Noted, and thank you very much, I suppose you meant."
He's a pup,let it go.Our reward awaits us in Heaven

Happy birthday Big Ben,150 years old today ....
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LiKOhOzQyZg&feature=related

They say that if you look anything like your passport photo, you're too sick to travel.

Well, I tried to put on a mean face, and I'm normally smiling so I don't think I look like the pic.

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Here is a visual map of everything I've had suggested to me thus far.

http://maps.google.com/maps/ms?ie=UTF8&hl=en&msa=0&ll=51.511093,-0.127029&spn=0.089528,0.264359&z=13&msid=116270328472908694619.00046bd0544b8780154ce

I'm looking for some great food and drink places too.

More updates to come soon!

Thanks
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