London in general

right...my top ten London pubs, sorry it is soooo long, but there is a quick guide for each venue! Enjoy your read...might see you in one of them one day (I'll be the drunkard in the corner!) ~No 1 THE ROSE, 123 SNOWFIELDS, SE1 3ST~ ~Location~ 3 mins walk from London Bridge Station (and the Guys for any drunken mishaps!) ~Smoking~ Yes definitely, can't imagine the place will be the same when the ban comes in! ~The Rose In General~ Ok so you ...
...here is honestly priced, for London and what it is, and you definitely always get what you pay for! The wine list is extensive and the staff are very knowledgeable (as most of them are drinking a glass of it) and will be able to point you in the right direction. There is a good selection of beers here, they serve Belgian Beer on tap and there is a speciality non-alc-amar-olic drink - Rock Shandy (lime, angosturas, lemonade and soda). The people ...

tazzywazzy 09.05.2006 · Read full review
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...they have been living in London for an extended period of time So to celebrate my 2-year anniversary of living in the Big Smoke, here's an ever-so-slightly tongue in cheek guide to "You know that you've been living in London too long when...." 1. You say "the City" and expect everyone to know which one 2. You have never been to The Tower or Madame Tussauds but love Brighton 3. You can get into a four-hour argument about how to get from Shepherds ...
...So there we have it, I'm sure anyone who's spent any time living in London can identify with some of those. Personally I was horrified when I realised that I've done no.29 on a number of occasions!! Hope it brought a smile to your face... ...

redmonkey 29.03.2004 · Read full review
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I have lived in London all my life and have grown up loving this city. So I thought, for those who have not yet been I would share my thoughts on the sites to see in MY city!! Shopping. There are so many places in London to go shopping!! If you want to go to huge size High Street shops then your best bet is Oxford Street. To get here just get off at Oxford Circus tube station. Opposite the tube station, is the HUGE Topshop, which is the largest ...
...of the coolest museums in London to visit. The exhibitions have been created to ensure that they will capture the interest of all generations. It is open from 10am to 6pm and is in Exhibition Road which is near South Kensington tube. The exhibitions on this summer are: The Human Body, Climate Change and Art with the brain in mind. You can get a family day pass (for 2adults and 2 children) for £29.95 which includes a free guidebook and entry to the ...

girlstar 10.07.2002 · Read full review
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London through the eyes of a Dutch girl, this could get interesting. I decided to write an op, because I fell in love with London, and I have only been there once. Please note that I descibed our first day in London, the way I experienced it. You won't read any facts about London, just my view. I warned you.. HOW IT STARTED -------- I wanted to go on a vacation for the summer, but my boyfriend wasn't quite interested, because it would costs a ...
...KLM, and we arrived in London Heathrow in less then 45 minutes. ON OUR WAY -------- We bought a London Travelcard for 6 zones, and got on the tube. We were really surprised that all the tubes actually got there on time, and we laughed a little about the driver saying 'please mind the gap between the train and the platform' at each station. When we stopped at this station (I can't remember the name) we saw this London Underground sign, and there ...

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...suitcase for a trip to London I had few visions of this city: many people, noise and mud! But I had to ascertain that it isn´t like in my "horror-visions" - I have never visited a city like London: warm, friendly and the cleanest I´ve ever seen! Of course there were more people than in our german cities or villages; surely it´s the capital of the United Kingdom. But although there was many people, everyone of them was friendly and was (for example) ...
...stayed in London I have never seen any rubbish or mud on the streets. (Not like here in Germany; here it looks worse.) The noise was not like the one I imagine, just at Piccadilly Circus it is a little bit louder (caused by the heavy traffic). The inducement to travel to the UK was that my class gratuaded the last year my old school. I was not happy when I heard that our teacher planned each minute of our voyage. Every day from the morning to the ...

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London is the capital of Blighty, it is home to some of the most famous landmarks such as Downing Street, Houses of Parliament, Buckingham palace, The tower of London and all of the places on the monopoly board! It is a city rich in history aswell as a pretty funky place to live for many famous people including Maddona, Kylie, Elton John and her royal highness herself! It is a haven for shoppers, clubbers and tourists and in my opinion one of the ...
...spent the whole summer in London as an activities supervisor and tour guide for an Italian summer school. Very ironic I know being a tour guide for a city that I had never visited before, ha ha, but luckily I’m an actress and I could bluff my way through and I now know enough about the big smoke to write an op about the place in general! Having never been to London before I had a pretty stereotypical view of what to expect. I was wanting black cabs, ...

KarmababyUK 06.10.2001 (26.02.2002) · Read full review
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...touts. ***THE SOCIETY OF LONDON THEATRES*** Visit www.officiallondontheatre.co.uk and click ‘Special Offers’. There are always some worthwhile offers available for trips out to the theatre and I have used these on a number of different occasions. The range of offers has (and will) included the following: • Two for the price of One. • Best Available seats for a reduced price. At the moment there is an offer to see the play ‘Wait Until Dark’ ...
...to see a show in London for the cheapest way possible! Sadly, if you want to see shows like ‘The Lion King’, ‘The Phantom of the Opera’ and ‘Mamma Mia’ you are more than likely going to have to pay the full price as these shows are still packing them in and are very rarely, if at all, available at half-price ticket booths. Be aware that Balcony tickets (£12.00 from the box office) for ‘Phantom’ are regularly bought by touts and sold off at Grand ...

Critchyboy 18.10.2003 · Read full review
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...explain. I lived in London for 6 years, and managed to escape from it just over a year ago. Let me continue to explain. London is one of the most cosmopolitan cities in Europe and quite possibly the world. It has a massive history. Authors have written relentlessly about it. Artists have painted and photographed it. Singers have composed songs and sung about it and American and Japanese tourists have raved about it’s symbolism of everything ...
...perceptions of it. LONDON – THE OVERRATED CITY Rewind 7 years… London O London. Dear city, who has everything to give me. She is my new lover. She is my one hope for happiness. She who holds the world… Just like many that arrive in London, my senses took a while to adjust to the strange sites, sounds and smells that occupy the city. A small time girl, ready for Dick Whittington style adventure. Oh naïve one, how could you have ...

HappyBunny 09.10.2001 · Read full review
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...would be possible to see London entirely by boat. After a little research, I've decided that it's definitely do-able and here's how I'd go about it. '''Hop-on Hop-Off River Tours''' City Cruises is one of the original, open deck sightseeing cruises in London, and also does evening dinner and dance cruises on the London Showboat. Their River Red Rover sightseeing ticket allows you to make stops at Westminster, Waterloo, Tower Pier and Greenwich. ...
...and Cabinet War Rooms, the London Eye and London Aquarium. Then take to the river again and get off at Tower Pier which is right next to the Tower of London and Tower Bridge Exhibition. Across the river, you could visit the London Bridge Experience or the London Dungeon for some good old-fashioned screaming in the dark - light relief after all the culture you've been absorbing. Then walk along the south bank to the Shakespeare's Globe Theatre, the ...

TouristTrish 25.04.2008 · Read full review
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...people have never been to London before! I really hate narrow-minded comments like this. Sadly, it’s pretty much the mentality of a lot of towns. We don’t live in a safe world. It isn’t full of rainbows and butterflies and fluffy bunnies! We have faith in our police, security and intelligence agencies to protect us. They do a pretty good job. London is our capital city. It is very large, cosmopolitan and busy. It has that special atmosphere that ...
...Albert and the British Museum. London is awash with theatres and art galleries such as The Tate and The Tate Modern. You can also soak up the atmosphere of Westminster and view the famous Big Ben and Westminster Palace. Going out: You will never be bored in London. There is so much to do! Bars, clubs, pubs and restaurants are abound. Nights out aren’t as cheap as elsewhere but you can generally go out and have a great night out at least once a week ...

Katieshaz 18.03.2005 (19.03.2005) · Read full review
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...where is its centre? London is a great city but one that is very confusing as to a tourist which way is up-town and which is down-town.London does not appear to have any boundary.The life style here is very different to many countries capitals. London is a service city,shop-counter and a show-case all rolled into one.It has a sprinkling of glass towers,housing many multi-national people.A density of population at over 11,000 residents to the square ...
...early part of this century, London expanded greatly. What was once open field ,market gardens or commons,with maybe the odd farmhouse or barn soon became overwhelmed with houses. These were the suburbs of london. A comercialised London had begun a city that has no walls.. So what can I tell you about London now? Well London is a very busy place. The transport system is good but hetic with many buses,trains,coaches and river trips, in and out of ...

linda01865 14.09.2001 · Read full review
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...go and people to meet. London is THE place to live if you are young - it is close to all the action. London is extremely expensive to live in. In fact it is the most expensive place to live in the entire country. But wages are now beginning to reflect this, and it is likely that employers will increase your pay if you are working within the city. Temping agencies are always searching for new employees and are a great place to start if you are new ...
...you are sharing the cost between 5 of you. London is great - so go out there and check it out. Give it time - it took me good on 20 years to see it in the right light. It isn't the big leering monster that it first seems. ...

lec299 23.12.2000 · Read full review
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London is my favourite city and I wouldn’t trade it for any other city in the world. I know London like the back of my hand; composed of boroughs and areas London is a very large and complex city that can take years to know. Having grown up in London I have seen the city change over the years. Although London has become one of the most expensive cities in Europe, it still has not lost its appeal and continues to draw in the tourists in numbers. ...
...to studying. Attractions: ************* London has more than 400 attractions you can visit. This city is full of history and offers some of the best museums in Europe. The famous Madame Tausauds, Natural History museum. If you want art then the National Gallery will give you art. It houses some of the best works of art and is located opposite Trafalgar Square, another popular attraction. Tower of London, it doesn’t matter what time of the day ...

Rincon 05.10.2001 · Read full review
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...furthest east most visitors to London get is the sightseeing in the City; for nightlife, eating out, hotels, parks etc. they stick to the West End, Kensington, Chelsea etc. East London has the unfair reputation of being one great grimy, poor, dangerous council estate. However, Londoners, especially young Londoners, know it as an area 'on the up'; Spitalfields has already had its first million-pound house, and the Shoreditch area has taken over from ...
...bohemian hotspot. You can barely move for small art galleries in Hoxton, there are also some in Bethnal Green. Alternative culture can also be found at the Lux Cinema on Hoxton Square, or the Space Theatre/Gallery in Mudchute. The EC1 loft-apartment revolution has done more than push house prices up, it's also encouraged a great improvement in the quality of restaurants and nightlife, too. While you may think of East End cuisine as nothing more ...

jebaldwin 25.08.2000 · Read full review
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...should write an opinion on London after I'd done one on New York and I thought - hold on, I know London better. So here I am, faced with rather a daunting task of telling you all the stuff to do in London. As a Londoner myself, please bear in mind that I'm used to everything here, so I may take things for granted that you might not. Anyway, enough with the small talk... Ok, first things first. If you're visitng London, you'll need to find accomodation. ...
...more in the outskirts of London too. The outside of zone 1 and in zone 2 has loads of places to stay - just remember to get one near a tube station so you'll be able to go places. The "I've got money to burn" traveller: Get a hotel. No need for me to go into them really, there's lots around and you just need to pick the one that's most suitable for you. Travel: The London Underground is the most well known train system in the world, with everyone ...

kenigma 25.02.2001 · Read full review
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