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What should I do with Kiwi who has never been to London before?

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Then Continuing right on from 8ball White banks Slam City Skates
from there beer mile The Bermondsey Beer Mile
Then there is Bermondsey High Street, Museum of fashion and textiles also White Cube.
While headed down that way is Maltby Street Market (the new borough market).
The freebie, just across the river is the Walkie Talkie, which is best booked Sky Garden | SkyGarden
Back up to the river for HMS Belfast

But there again, it depends on their age and interests

There is a steam train running on the underground this weekend and the Ruskin Park summer fete.
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I like the idea of the beer mile tbf :thumbs:
 
8ball said:
Def South Bank for a skater.
(is that still a thing - I hope so)
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hash tag said:
Then Continuing right on from 8ball White banks Slam City Skates
from there beer mile The Bermondsey Beer Mile
Then there is Bermondsey High Street, Museum of fashion and textiles also White Cube.
While headed down that way is Maltby Street Market (the new borough market).
The freebie, just across the river is the Walkie Talkie, which is best booked Sky Garden | SkyGarden
Back up to the river for HMS Belfast

But there again, it depends on their age and interests

There is a steam train running on the underground this weekend and the Ruskin Park summer fete.
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If they are a skater pop in to House of Vans as well if near Southbank, 5 arches converted to a skaters paradise. Not forgetting Leake Street graff tunnel on the way.

I know a few craft beer people and the Beer Mile is all a bit "stag do" according to them now but they're hipsters so...

edit; actually even if you aren't a skater it's worth popping in to HoV, it's one of those weird places that people love to find when in a strange city and they always have an art exhibition on as well.
 
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If I remember right the number 24 is a good sight seeing route but so are most of the bus-routes that go through the middle of London.
 
spitfire said:
edit; actually even if you aren't a skater it's worth popping in to HoV, it's one of those weird places that people love to find when in a strange city and they always have an art exhibition on as well.
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They've got a Metallic theme this week
 
Southbank/Tower Bridge.
Westminster/Whitehall, Traf Sq
Take the tube
Ride a double decker
Camden market
Free art gallery (if they're into that)
Soho, Chinatown, Piccadilly Circus
One of the parks.
Borough Market (or one of the others)
Go to a nice pub

Avoid Oxford Street, Madamme Tussauds, and Buckingham Palace.
 
Forgot, if at Southbank; Leake Street Leake Street it changes daily!
It's now got a few trendy, hip caffs down there.

Buses, I think the old routemasters are still running between Trafalgar sq and Sth Ken London Buses route 15 (Heritage) - Wikipedia

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Do take him to Oxford St. Give him the slip in the throngs. Get on with your life with no needy Kiwi to bother you.
 
DLR bank to Royal Victoria off peak and pretend to be the driver.
Then Cable car over to other side of river.
Then get a commuter ferry upto Blackfriars and enjoy the south bank
 
Well if you're near the Barbican or Smithfields this is the best spot for any tourist in London. Up on one of these concrete walkways, would you believe it, you can see the entire history of London from Roman to present. Then of course if you can exit the Barbican complex, complex being the word, you're near Cloth Fair and St Bartholemew's and the oldest house in London. :cool:
 
Well he was the most ungrateful and tedious guest I have ever had the displeasure of hosting :(

He didn't give me any clues about what he might be interested in and seemed somewhat unimpressed by anything I showed him. He didn't even send me a thank you after he'd got on the train back up north. Just got on the train and texted me to tell me he'd managed to find a seat.

I'm quite pissed off at the whole thing. Hopefully he never leaves New Zealand again.
 
Mrs Miggins said:
Well he was the most ungrateful and tedious guest I have ever had the displeasure of hosting :(

He didn't give me any clues about what he might be interested in and seemed somewhat unimpressed by anything I showed him. He didn't even send me a thank you after he'd got on the train back up north. Just got on the train and texted me to tell me he'd managed to find a seat.

I'm quite pissed off at the whole thing. Hopefully he never leaves New Zealand again.
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Fucking hell! :D Mate.

Hopefully he never leaves New Zealand again
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Proper LOL. :D
 
Mrs Miggins said:
Well he was the most ungrateful and tedious guest I have ever had the displeasure of hosting :(

He didn't give me any clues about what he might be interested in and seemed somewhat unimpressed by anything I showed him. He didn't even send me a thank you after he'd got on the train back up north. Just got on the train and texted me to tell me he'd managed to find a seat.

I'm quite pissed off at the whole thing. Hopefully he never leaves New Zealand again.
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Ungrateful shit. We had someone like that for over 2 weeks, last year. Still traumatised by it!
 
At least I didn't bother cooking the fancy chicken I'd bought from Borough Market for him. I was so fucked off with his behavour by Saturday evening that there was no way I was roasting an expensive, free-range, organic bird for him. That little blighter's in the freezer now to be enjoyed by me at a later date :D
 
Actually I need to vent a bit more about this.
He was originally coming to King's Cross Friday evening and I was meeting him at 6pm. He texted mid afternoon Friday to say that his "meeting" (which I never got to the bottom off) was running late and he had to stay in Cambridge after all that evening. Which was fine.

Then 8pm (whilst in my dressing gown eating a vast bowl of noodles), I get a text saying that he can't find any accomodation and can he come after all on a late train. So I said fine (although it's not really fine ;) ). Then he texts again saying he's found somewhere to stay after all and that he'd get a train to London around 11am on Saturday and would text me when he's on the train. Fine!

So Saturday comes. 11am passes...12 o'clock passes...1pm passess....1:45pm I get a text "I'm on the train and will be at King's Cross at 2:30pm. I had a look round Cambridge market" - FFS! I'm getting really cross now :mad:

Saturday walking round London is ridiculous given his lack of interest in anything.
Saturday evening is a takeaway and his choice of movie on Netflix. He spends most of the time watching the film texting someone else.

Sunday morning we get up, I make coffee and breakfast. We make a plan to go to the Science Museum. I get in the shower and then give him a clean towel so he can get a shower and get ready to go. He then proceeds to spend 40 minutes just talking in the phone to someone.

He's lucky I didn't stab him at that point.
 
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