Can someone suggest an atypical London destination/event that I might enjoy (Sept 1)? I'm a 60-year-old male, traveling alone on business (I do have a family) and have already visited the major London attractions. Any suggestions would be appreciated.<BR><BR>Thanks,<BR><BR>Paul

Get mugged in Brixton or smoke pot in Lambeth. Get de-railed on a train somewhere. Get trapped in an underground tunnel. Go to Soho and buy a big sex toy. Amaze yourself at the landfill site called the millenium dome. Watch some juvenile, talentless pop-idol winners grate out some cover versions of old hits in some London park. See the remains of Wembley stadium ( our national stadium ) and wonder why 600 million pounds can't buy a new one. Drop in at any old age tea-room and get a cup of tea and food-poisoning. Go to any London restaurant and pay fifteen pounds for 'corkage' on a bottle of wine. Get hard drugs and / or hookers at Kings Cross station. Finally pop down to Westminster and give Tony Blair my regards.<BR><BR>Finally, think if there are any better places to go than London.<BR><BR>My PERSONAL opinion.

So, did a Londoner steal your girlfriend or something rquirk?

Whatever else could possibly make a male make such terrible observations ?<BR>It can only be so. Yes the professional carpetbagger from Stepney swept her away with his bubonic plague. <BR><BR>Repeat 100 times<BR><BR>Ex-girlfriends and carpetbaggers are humans too.<BR>Ex girlfriends and carpetbaggers are humans too.<BR>

To be helpful to the original poster visit http://www.timeout.com nearer the time or pick up a timeout magazine when you arrive. Alternatively, type in "Events London September" on an internet search engine.

rq<BR>My God, how bitter and unhelpful can one be???<BR><BR>

http://www.lonelyplanet.com/theme/<BR><BR>Paul-Lonely Planet has a Theme Guide that you can pick things perhaps a little off the beaten track to do in London.(Have you been to the Proms?I am not sure if they are still going on in Sept.but it might be worth a try to find ouT)Have a good time!

Your PERSONAL opinion, rquirk??? Gee, we'd never know.<BR><BR>MB

Paul,<BR>Frommers (sorry has books called Irreverant Guides,those are great for the off the usual route of sightseeing.See if you can find a London book.Also Rough Guides can be helpful with atypical tourist activites.<BR>Enjoy.

I just have to add that in the litiguous society in which we live. Something like America I've been told.<BR><BR>You can also always meet a spacker like Kate and listen to her drone on about how she plans to get herself famous through the next reality-tv gameshow.

I'm sure rquirk has his tongue firmly in his cheek but I think you're taking the concept of self-effacing British humour just a little bit too far. Also I'm not sure too many of our American (and other) friends are going to understand the Kate of Big Brother or Pop Idol reference.<BR><BR>Life here in London is pretty good really!!<BR><BR>For Paul - the Proms at Royal Albert Hall is a great idea if you like classical music and will still be on. You can also sample a slice of English summer life by going to a cricket match at Lords or the Oval and you've got the perfect icebreaker with Brits in getting them to explain the game to you.<BR><BR>Another atypical tourist destination is to see the new London at Canary Wharf the financial district and hop on the the Docklands light railway to Greenwich

LOL & ROTF !<BR><BR>How about Kew Gardens . . . take the District Line down, have a pint by the station before and after wandering through the grounds (don't miss the Palm House) . . . maybe saunter down the Thameside footpath to Richmond for more pubs and cricket (either on Kew Green or Richmond green) . . . another pint of bitter . . .<BR><BR>Oh to be in England in the summertime !<BR>HTH<BR>= )

My two favorites, close to one another, are a visit to Sir John Soanes' museum (behind the Aldwich semi-circle, and on the square of the Court of St. James -- its his private residence full wonderful art and architectural models, like the bank of England that he designed) and the High Courts of Holborn on the Strand, as I recall. I sat in on a few cases being tried, the architecture is amazing, and the setting is very regal.

Dear Mr Patterson,<BR><BR>With the e-mail copy of this message I am attaching a note I keep on disc on London off the beaten track. After reading it, please write if I can help further. Would a note on pubs ith good lunches be any help ? Welcome back.<BR><BR>Ben Haines, London

If the weather is nice (and hey this is England, so this is a very big if…and unlike rquirk I’m not joking) go for a walk along-side the Thames. The following route is refreshingly away from the sights, sounds and smell of London traffic and it takes in some of our newest attractions.<BR><BR>Start at St Pauls Catherdral, and head for the the new millennium footbridge which will take you to Bankside – where you will find the newly opened Tate Gallery of Modern Art – its free housed in a converted cathedral-like former power station, and well worth a visit.<BR><BR>After that a short walk along the river bank will take you to the just-finished being built new Hungerford foot Bridges – the newly installed upstream bridge gives views of the Palace of Westminster not seen since they demolished the old one in the 1860s. Hungerford Bridge is also a good stopping off point for the London Eye.<BR><BR>have fund