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Victoria... A bit of a dump isn't it?

Not getting a flipping bus just to eat my lunch you loon!

And that square is too small, too crowded, hardly any seats and what seats there are are filled with homeless Glaswegian alcoholics. Not somewhere conducive to a peaceful luncheon.
 
Not getting a flipping bus just to eat my lunch you loon!

And that square is too small, too crowded, hardly any seats and what seats there are are filled with homeless Glaswegian alcoholics. Not somewhere conducive to a peaceful luncheon.

Well yes, I wasn't going to mention the resident drinkers, but yes, it's not a place I've ever fancied sitting in :D

Suppose I was lucky as I was seconds away from St James's Park, so forget about the walk for people more towards the station
 
Everything between the station front and Victoria Street should be demolished and turned into a square. But that would mean losing valuable commercial real estate :(
 
Both Paddington and Euston have the advantage of decent pubs in the station or nearby (Euston Tap and The Mad Bishop and Bear)

Loads more shops at Victoria than Paddington but Paddington is the nicer looking station (at least inside). Oh and yeah there are cash points near M&S and also platform 12. I use them regularly :)

Marylebone is nice both inside and out plus (like Victoria) it has a cheese shop!!
 
the pubs round there are so bad they are kind of hilarious

Yeah, but sometimes you're just so knackered from a day of being a tourist, you still force yourself to enter one, knowing you'll regret it, but you desperately need to rest your weary feet :oops:
 
Victoria also has the bonus that if you work in the area there is no where, literally no where at all to go and eat a packed lunch outside. The few green spaces that are there are closed off to the public, being reserved for the folk in the posh houses. A proper shithole of a place.
there is St James Park and the Embankment Gardens near Parliament.
I used to work in the area and go to St James Park regularly and eat my sandwiches
 
there is St James Park and the Embankment Gardens near Parliament.
I used to work in the area and go to St James Park regularly and eat my sandwiches

Bahnhoff says it's too far. I'd imagine by the time he's queued for his lunch and walked up there, it'd be almost time to walk back
 
Marylebone perhaps?
Think Victoria Station was nicer before the space above the platforms was used.
Only half of it. The is still the iron and glass roof above the SE side, and it's has recently been renovated.

The new pub in Kings X is supposed to be pretty good too.
It is. I've used it a few times. Lots of railway related memorabilia, and if you sit by one of the windows you can look out onto the trains.
 
there is St James Park and the Embankment Gardens near Parliament.
I used to work in the area and go to St James Park regularly and eat my sandwiches


Both too far. And as the lovely Minnie points out, with 15 minutes farting around in Sainsbury's buying my lunch, sod that.

Anyway, a solution was found; quit the job and move offices to behind Lincoln's Inn :p
 
Both too far. And as the lovely Minnie points out, with 15 minutes farting around in Sainsbury's buying my lunch, sod that.

Anyway, a solution was found; quit the job and move offices to behind Lincoln's Inn :p
Why do you need to spend 15 minutes in Sainsbury's? Just make a packed lunch at home.
 
Anyway, a solution was found; quit the job and move offices to behind Lincoln's Inn :p

I work near there too - we are really spoilt with Lincoln's Inn, Lincoln's Inn Fields and Gray's Inn cheek by jowl. Extraordinarily handsome bit of London, particularly given its proximity to the awful High Holborn.
 
Why do you need to spend 15 minutes in Sainsbury's? Just make a packed lunch at home.

At 6am I have no idea what I'll be wanting to eat at 1pm.

Plus I'm too lazy.

Plus the Sainsbury's in Victoria does luscious value-brand midget gems.
 
I work near there too - we are really spoilt with Lincoln's Inn, Lincoln's Inn Fields and Gray's Inn cheek by jowl. Extraordinarily handsome bit of London, particularly given its proximity to the awful High Holborn.

I love that area. I reckon one of my favourite job locations was Chancery Lane area. I stopped working there in the early 90s but still feel at home every time I go there (although judging by Google maps, there's been big changes around there)
 
I work near there too - we are really spoilt with Lincoln's Inn, Lincoln's Inn Fields and Gray's Inn cheek by jowl. Extraordinarily handsome bit of London, particularly given its proximity to the awful High Holborn.

Decent selection of pubs too :cool:
 
At 6am I have no idea what I'll be wanting to eat at 1pm.

Plus I'm too lazy.

Plus the Sainsbury's in Victoria does luscious value-brand midget gems.
Lazy? It doesn't take 5 minutes to knock up a couple of sandwiches. I never understand who pay three or four pounds for a sandwich every day, when they could make some themselves for a fraction of the cost, and get to decide exactly what they want in them.
 
Lazy? It doesn't take 5 minutes to knock up a couple of sandwiches. I never understand who pay three or four pounds for sandwich every day, when they could make some themselves for a fraction of the cost, and get to decide exactly what they want in it.

For your information, when I was burdened with working in the midden that is Victoria, I bought raw ingredients, such as rolls, meats and fillings and made them myself. However I will not be doing that bollocks at 6 o'clock in the frigging morning, thanks.
 
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