London calling.

[Edwin MacPhisto 0]

So on Saturday I leave for London for a month, as part of a sorta-class-type thing for college. I'm sure a lot of you have been to Britain and I know a bunch of you live there, so...what non-touristy things of merit should I make some time for during my stay? I'm going to be at Regents College, but able to go pretty much anywhere in free time.

[Dr. Tom 0]

I enjoyed the hell out of my time in London. Of course, it rained a lot, but that didn't matter. I spent a lot of time in the pubs and clubs, and in Picadilly Circus and the surrounding area. This was in 1992, of course, so things might've changed.

[welshjerichomark 0]

London is rather overated IMO. But you got to go to Harrod's, it's great.

[godthedog 0]

bitchin. have fun.

 

some kids from the drama department here are in london as well for some class type thing. if you run into any americans named matthew, jamie or maria let me know.

[Murmuring Beast 0]

Piccadilly Circus isn't really a circus...*rimshot*

 

Come to Glasgow instead, much better.

[caboose 0]

I personally hate London, but its still a fun time. Check out Speaker's Corner for some Extreme Left/Religious Fanatsism/Crazy talk.

[caboose 0]

Come to Glasgow instead, much better.

I just noticed that...

 

HA!

[Renegade 0]

Go to Reading Berkshire, home of the oracle!

[Guest Agent of Oblivion]

I'd go to stonehenge.

[Mystery Eskimo 0]

Glasgow is pretty cool actually. I've had more fun there than in London, which is probably because Londoners are mostly twats. No offence to any here

[Garth 0]

I'd go to stonehenge.

I live in the city where Stonehenge is, if your gonna check out Stonehenge do it on the 21st of June the longest day I believe, we get all the hippy fucks in town, you can see the cloud of pot smoke coming down the hill into Salisbury. Fun is had by all. And by all I mean everyone bar the police, and conservatives in town they fucking hate it.

[Dace59 0]

Edwin, you want tickets to Birmingham New Street, and we can grab in the members of the SWF Brit Clique for a meet up and beatdown.

[King Cucaracha 0]

Meh...never really that into London myself. I've been a few times and it was ok, and of course I was never the age to be visiting night-life and stuff. Outside of Wembley and the Dome, I never really went to do anything.

 

I guess this is 'touristy'...if you're not freaked out by heights, queues, the general public and high prices, the London Eye's a pretty decent half hour or so.

 

Bars and clubs are your best bet for something to do though.

[nl5xsk1 0]

When I was overseas, I found that I enjoyed some of the smaller towns more than London itself (Windsor is where I was stayng, so spent most of my time there, but also went to places like Reading and Stratford a few times.) London was Ok, too, I guess, but it wasn't the best place to visit IMHO. Do you know the old saying "it's a nice place to visit but I wouldn't want to live there"? I felt the exact opposite of that for London: it'd be a nice place to live, but I wasn't stoked with visiting there.