When was the last time you visited the capital of your country?

[Brigadier]

Yes, but look where it is, you would need to live there.

On Regent's Park:great place to live.

Twenty minutes walk to Euston, five to Baker Street tube, forty minute walk to Buck House and such.


Not bad at all, for the Smoke

 

[Harry Bloomfield]

On Regent's Park:great place to live.

I'll still stick with what I have thanks.

 

[Seafarer1966]

Me and the squaw were in London in January this year for a few days to see a couple of West End shows (the ticket prices are halved just after Crimbo). We usually stay in a tourist hotel in Pimlico on Belgrave Road. Not a particularly expensive hotel and it's clean. Doesn't do food but there's a Greggs 10 mins walk away (bacon cobs and coffees in the morning) and a decent pub that does food (The Constitution) in the evenings (£6 a pint of lager....the Australian barmaid couldn't believe it when I told her I pay £3.30 a pint in my local. There is a Spoons in the area but I would rather push a pair of knitting needles into my eyes than drink their stale out of date beer and eat their bad food).
We avoid driving to The Smoke for the very reasons mentioned already. Plus there's the Congestion Charge. Plus there's extortionate parking prices. We catch the National Express coach (we sound like a right pair of coffin dodgers but if you book your accommodation and bus tickets together on the National Express website it's really reasonable). The bus gets us into Victoria Coach Station bang in the centre of London. 15 minute walk to the hotel in Pimlico. We'll probably go again sometime in January.
West End shows a must see are The Lion King and The Prince of Egypt (a loose telling of the story of Moses). No-no's are Wicked (sort of Wizard of Oz but solely about the witch....utter garbage) and Tina.

 

[Deleted member 18243]

I love London and it saddens me what's happening to it. Haven't been for a couple of years, used to go often when the train fare from Manchester was cheap, could get there and back in a day. Fabulous pubs, fabulous museums, fabulous buildings, fabulous people, fabulous shops, fabulous everything. Edinburgh is brilliant too, it's London without the glass tower blocks and foreigners. Bit cold though.

 

[crystal ball]

I love London and it saddens me what's happening to it. Haven't been for a couple of years, used to go often when the train fare from Manchester was cheap, could get there and back in a day. Fabulous pubs, fabulous museums, fabulous buildings, fabulous people, fabulous shops, fabulous everything. Edinburgh is brilliant too, it's London without the glass tower blocks and foreigners. Bit cold though.

Edinburgh has no foreigners, interesting concept, do you have any proof?

 

[Deleted member 18243]

Edinburgh has no foreigners, interesting concept, do you have any proof?

It has good foreigners, i.e. tourists.

 

[crystal ball]

It has good foreigners, i.e. tourists.

Not what you said in your post, do you believe Edinburgh has no "foreign"residents?

 

[Deleted member 18243]

Not what you said in your post, do you believe Edinburgh has no "foreign"residents?

Crystal Ball you are a right old laugh! I bet it's a riot in your house, the fun never ends. Do you like Jeremy Clarkson? Or Katie Hopkins?

There's a word for people like you, a word often used by Scots: Dour.

 

[crystal ball]

Crystal Ball you are a right old laugh! I bet it's a riot in your house, the fun never ends. Do you like Jeremy Clarkson? Or Katie Hopkins?

There's a word for people like you, a word often used by Scots: Dour.

Unable to answer again.

 

[Seafarer1966]

Re: all the comments about Edinburgh I much prefer Glasgow. Friendlier people, cheaper by a long way, you can always get a table in a restaurant and it's not frequented by the tweed jacket/ waistcoat/ corduroy trousers/ hand tooled brogues crowd.