Doing London things you've never done

[Pickman's model]

Without breaking the covenant of the Mousetrap I imagine you approved of who dunnit?

If you know Agatha Christie then as the play progresses you'll work it out

 

[hash tag]

One thing we keep meaning to do but never get around to it is one of dem Big Bus tours

We always do similar when we visit a new city for the first time, gives a good perspective of a City layout.

We nearly done one in November but got drunk in a pub up Piccadilly instead.

Even tho' there's no reason we need to do it we will do it one day.

I've done that after a fashion, taking afternoon tea on one, does that count?

We have done one of those Duck Tours things where it covers land and river. It was fun.

Did you need rescuing? Mrs Tag used to work near the river and frequently saw them being towed out.

 

[Orang Utan]

Don’t think I ever went to the London Dungeon. The out-of-work actors who bark for it always put me off

 

[hash tag]

I've done one or two walking tours but never done a jack the ripper one.

 

[krtek a houby]

Never did Tussauds, Bucks Palace, the cable car, or any of that poppy stuff.

 

[Pickman's model]

Never did Tussauds, Bucks Palace, the cable car, or any of that poppy stuff.

You never picked poppies to make poppy tea? You haven't lived

 

[Pickman's model]

Don’t think I ever went to the London Dungeon. The out-of-work actors who bark for it always put me off

Work paid for me to go one time

 

[tim]

Harrods is mental. You don't have to buy anything. Just walk around saying wtf in disbelief.

Or turn up just before they close, pick up discounted bread and buns from the bakers and go home with a Harrods bag. I used to do this in the noughties when I bussed home on the 14.

 

[Boris Sprinkler]

I have never seen, let alone been in, Fortnum and Mason.
I am inclined to believe it may not be real.

 

[tim]

You never picked poppies to make poppy tea? You haven't lived

You can't make hippy tea until some Christ-guided recovering veteran has actually made the poppies and you have been on a trip to Richmond to watch the assembly process.

 

[hash tag]

I doubt I will be taking the spot Public invited to walk on Westminster Abbey’s Cosmati pavement – in socks

 

[technical]

I've lived in London 38 years this summer, and have never been to the Notting Hill Carnival.

 

[Chz]

I've lived in London 38 years this summer, and have never been to the Notting Hill Carnival.

To be honest, anything that has the description of "two million people will attend" has me staying far the fuck away.

 

[krtek a houby]

I've lived in London 38 years this summer, and have never been to the Notting Hill Carnival.

It's worth at least one attendance. No big fan of crowds, but the vibe is awesome.

 

[furluxor]

Mousetrap did take me years to get round to, and I thought it was rather disappointing.

I have never had afternoon tea at the Ritz and I would like to. Had their little tea book as a teenager, I flipped through it last time I visited my parents.
I haven't been to all underground stations - wanted to make notes of where there aren't any gates and then draw up a map.
Before last month I hadn't been to all of Borough market, I'd seen about half of it and thought that was all. It blew my mind (and a hole in my wallet).

 

[MrSki]

It's worth at least one attendance. No big fan of crowds, but the vibe is awesome.

If you don't like the crowds then go via the Regents canal. Not too crowded & you can venture as far as you are comfortable into the more crowded areas.

 

[MrSki]

i've been to london zoo (again, not entirely my choice - was with others who wanted to go) and also chessington when it was just a zoo (can't remember much about it or why we went - may have been some sort of other event as well)

I used to often pop in the zoo after a lunchtime tipple. If meeting peeps from outside town I would take then to the Elephants Head in Camden & then go and go for a smoke in the park. Once they were suitably stoned would take them to see the real elephants when they were any in the zoo. Pretty easy to climb over the fence near the bridge over the canal. Happily there are very few large animals there now.

I lived at the top of Parkway on the edge of the park for a couple of years & it used to freak out people staying to hear the wolves howling, that was when there was a wolf enclosure. Now thankfully a lot of the larger animals have been moved to more suitable zoos.

 

[bellaozzydog]

One of them There amphibious duck vehicle things on the Thames

 

[MrSki]

One of the. There amphibious duck vehicle things on the Thames

Does it still run. I thought there was a slight accident?

 

[Numbers]

I have never seen, let alone been in, Fortnum and Mason.
I am inclined to believe it may not be real.

They do a lovely £30 chicken.

 

[krtek a houby]

One of the. There amphibious duck vehicle things on the Thames

Great fun and informative. The one we went on, the guide had lots to say about pineapples in architecture/decorations.

 

[domestos]

When I went the vehicle was full of the elderly who insisted on the floppy plastic windows being tied down. The problem was that the windows were so scratched and dirty that it was hard to see any thing and it was still freezing.

 

[moochedit]

They do a lovely £30 chicken.

£30? that a typo?

 

[pinkmonkey]

Have done most of these but not Buckingham Palace and wouldn't go to Mme Tussauds again if you paid me (went when I was about 15 on a family day trip to London).

OK. Did anyone ever go to The Dome when it was The Dome, rather than the O2?

I did and it was crap.

Yes because Greenwich council gave residents free tickets. I quite liked it, especially the aerial/acrobatic show. But it was compensation for basically putting residents under house arrest for several days over the millenium new year. Main roads were closed, we were the trapped plebs, whilst the chosen ones partied at the dome.

 

[pinkmonkey]

I’ve never been to Borough Market despite being a bit of a foodwanker, if we’re talking nightlife, never went to Fabric.

 

[Sasaferrato]

I've never been in Harrods, seen The Trooping of the Colour or eaten pie and mash.
And so it shall remain.

I've been in Harrods.

 

[Sasaferrato]

Harrods is mental. You don't have to buy anything. Just walk around saying wtf in disbelief.

Ka de We in Berlin is like that. I was admiring a dinner service priced at €1500.00, then realised that that was the cost of a single plate. Royal Copenhagen.

 

[Numbers]

£30? that a typo?

No typo, we were in there last November and bought one as a treat, it wasn't even all that.

 

[Sasaferrato]

I used to often pop in the zoo after a lunchtime tipple. If meeting peeps from outside town I would take then to the Elephants Head in Camden & then go and go for a smoke in the park. Once they were suitably stoned would take them to see the real elephants when they were any in the zoo. Pretty easy to climb over the fence near the bridge over the canal. Happily there are very few large animals there now.

I lived at the top of Parkway on the edge of the park for a couple of years & it used to freak out people staying to hear the wolves howling, that was when there was a wolf enclosure. Now thankfully a lot of the larger animals have been moved to more suitable zoos.

One of the eeriest episodes of my life was in Hannover zoo. We were beside the wolf enclosure when, as a single animal, they all put their heads back and howled. Haunting sound. Good Zoo Hannover, at the entrance they had parrots on perches, took you a moment to realise they weren't tied down, they could have left, but didn't.

 

[Sasaferrato]

No typo, we were in there last November and bought one as a treat, it wasn't even all that.

I'd be expecting an ostrich for £30.00. We buy ASDA basics chickens. (They are actually very good value, chicken day one, chicken curry day two.).