Romantic Suggestions in London??
Dec 25th, 2003, 05:18 PM
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Romantic Suggestions in London??
hiya fodorites,
Any romantic activities for two 20 year olds that you'd recommend in London? I've looked into ice skating, but would like some more ideas. We're both knee deep in student loans so please, something affordable. Thanks a bunch!
Any romantic activities for two 20 year olds that you'd recommend in London? I've looked into ice skating, but would like some more ideas. We're both knee deep in student loans so please, something affordable. Thanks a bunch!
Dec 25th, 2003, 07:09 PM
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Walk across the Westminster Bridge, follow the river to the Tower Bridge. Cross the Tower Bridge to the Tower of London. The view of the Thames is gorgeous, there are lots of things to see including street performers. Enjoy!
Walk across the Westminster Bridge, follow the river to the Tower Bridge. Cross the Tower Bridge to the Tower of London. The view of the Thames is gorgeous, there are lots of things to see including street performers. Enjoy!
Dec 25th, 2003, 07:14 PM
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Get a cheap room with a good bed and hump your brains out for 2 days, then get two tickets on the Big Red Bus and take the city tour. Get off ( the bus ) at all the hot spots, ( Tower of London, Westminister, Big Ben, etc. ) and after a day of touring go back to your room, lock the door and hump your brains out for another two days and then fly home.
Very romantic!
Very romantic!
Dec 26th, 2003, 07:43 AM
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Ira, when I read romantic i did think about sensual sexual activity. But "humping your brains out" doesn't strike me as "romantic". Maybe I'm not doing it right, but my wife considers me very romantic, but I wouldn't describe our activities as "humping our brains out".
Dec 26th, 2003, 08:58 AM
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Donna B describes an excellent walk. I have trouble working out what is romantic. If I think of old and walled-in, green, wide and beautiful with flowers, or well arranged for sitting holding hands I find these ideas.
Richmond Park. Richmond tube
Kyoto Garden, Holland Park
Royal Mews, beside Buckingham Palace
Entry 5 pounds 50. Open from March 26 to October 31. Daily hours 11-4 (10-5 in August-Sept). Last entry 3.30 (or Aug to Sept 4.30).
http://www.royal.gov.uk/output/page573.asp
One of the finest working stables in existence. Moved to Buckingham Palace in 1760s and rebuilt by John Nash in the 1820 s. Open throughout the year for visitors to see the work of the Royal Household department as well as the State Carriages and cars used at State occasions.
Shepherd Market. A dozen or a score of reasonably priced restaurants, many of them ethnic, with outdoor tables in summer. North of Green Park tube
The exotic birds and beautiful flowers in St. James Park. Lunch upstairs or sup downstairs on weekdays at the Two Chairmen
College Garden, Westminster Abbey a thousand years old, no entry fee
Church of St Bartholomew-the-Great, EC1. Twelfth century church. Farringdon
Lakeside music and lunch at the Barbican in summer. Barbican tube
In summer there are free lunchtime and weekend concerts at the bandstand in Embankment Gardens, next to Embankment underground station, and on the first floor of the Royal Festival Hall, and six o clock concerts at the National Theatre near Waterloo, outdoors in front of the theatre and indoors on the ground floor. Between them these give you light classical, roots, and jazz. Time Out magazine lists them.
The George Inn, on Borough High Street, with 17th century inn yard. National Trust. London Bridge tube. Over the road is the café Sofra, with a good Turkish set meal at £7.50.
Borough Market. London Bridge tube. Lunch upstairs at the Market Porter
Geffrye Museum. By bus 149 or 242 from Liverpool Street
Bethnal Green Museum Of Childhood. Tube Bethnal Green
Ragged School Museum. Tube Mile End
Other free music is on offer. There are lunchtime classical recitals weekly in term time in the London School of Economics (Holborn tube), often in Imperial College (South Kensington tube), and sometimes in Kings College (Temple tube). There are jazz and classical recitals about six on weekdays in the foyer at the Barbican. There are free music and sometimes plays at the Guildhall School of Music and Drama next to the Barbican, and free music at the Royal College of Music and the Royal Academy of Music, Baker Streeet tube: both have student refectories with low prices. Programmes are on http://www.gsmd.ac.uk/, http://www.rcm.ac.uk/, and http://www.ram.ac.uk/.
Please write if you can sharpen up my idea of what is romantic. Welcome to London. And come on, fellow-readers: do not let a horny lad or post-prandial stupor distract you. What do you think is romantic in London ?
Ben Haines
Richmond Park. Richmond tube
Kyoto Garden, Holland Park
Royal Mews, beside Buckingham Palace
Entry 5 pounds 50. Open from March 26 to October 31. Daily hours 11-4 (10-5 in August-Sept). Last entry 3.30 (or Aug to Sept 4.30).
http://www.royal.gov.uk/output/page573.asp
One of the finest working stables in existence. Moved to Buckingham Palace in 1760s and rebuilt by John Nash in the 1820 s. Open throughout the year for visitors to see the work of the Royal Household department as well as the State Carriages and cars used at State occasions.
Shepherd Market. A dozen or a score of reasonably priced restaurants, many of them ethnic, with outdoor tables in summer. North of Green Park tube
The exotic birds and beautiful flowers in St. James Park. Lunch upstairs or sup downstairs on weekdays at the Two Chairmen
College Garden, Westminster Abbey a thousand years old, no entry fee
Church of St Bartholomew-the-Great, EC1. Twelfth century church. Farringdon
Lakeside music and lunch at the Barbican in summer. Barbican tube
In summer there are free lunchtime and weekend concerts at the bandstand in Embankment Gardens, next to Embankment underground station, and on the first floor of the Royal Festival Hall, and six o clock concerts at the National Theatre near Waterloo, outdoors in front of the theatre and indoors on the ground floor. Between them these give you light classical, roots, and jazz. Time Out magazine lists them.
The George Inn, on Borough High Street, with 17th century inn yard. National Trust. London Bridge tube. Over the road is the café Sofra, with a good Turkish set meal at £7.50.
Borough Market. London Bridge tube. Lunch upstairs at the Market Porter
Geffrye Museum. By bus 149 or 242 from Liverpool Street
Bethnal Green Museum Of Childhood. Tube Bethnal Green
Ragged School Museum. Tube Mile End
Other free music is on offer. There are lunchtime classical recitals weekly in term time in the London School of Economics (Holborn tube), often in Imperial College (South Kensington tube), and sometimes in Kings College (Temple tube). There are jazz and classical recitals about six on weekdays in the foyer at the Barbican. There are free music and sometimes plays at the Guildhall School of Music and Drama next to the Barbican, and free music at the Royal College of Music and the Royal Academy of Music, Baker Streeet tube: both have student refectories with low prices. Programmes are on http://www.gsmd.ac.uk/, http://www.rcm.ac.uk/, and http://www.ram.ac.uk/.
Please write if you can sharpen up my idea of what is romantic. Welcome to London. And come on, fellow-readers: do not let a horny lad or post-prandial stupor distract you. What do you think is romantic in London ?
Ben Haines
Dec 26th, 2003, 09:13 AM
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I forgot to say that London travel cards include busses. You can find a bus map of central London free at any tube station, and for short trips can go upstairs and sit in the far back or far front of a bus. This is then your private island, where you look out, but no gentleman looks in
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Dec 26th, 2003, 11:36 AM
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Book a table at the Tate Modern's Café 7 and enjoy spectacular views over London.
The food is very good and reasonably priced. Be sure to have a glass of Champagne and toast your good fortune to be together in London.
The museum is free (donations welcome) and houses an incredible collection of modern and contemporary art.
To book a table in Café 7, call 0207 401 5020. http://www.tate.org.uk/modern/
Enjoy!
The food is very good and reasonably priced. Be sure to have a glass of Champagne and toast your good fortune to be together in London.
The museum is free (donations welcome) and houses an incredible collection of modern and contemporary art.
To book a table in Café 7, call 0207 401 5020. http://www.tate.org.uk/modern/
Enjoy!
Dec 26th, 2003, 11:54 AM
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ben_haines_london wrote,
>... I forgot to say that London travel cards include busses.... go upstairs and sit in the far back or far front of a bus. This is then your private island, where you look out, but no gentleman looks in.<
This is the first time that I have found the misspelling of the plural of bus to be appropriate.
>... I forgot to say that London travel cards include busses.... go upstairs and sit in the far back or far front of a bus. This is then your private island, where you look out, but no gentleman looks in.<
This is the first time that I have found the misspelling of the plural of bus to be appropriate.
Dec 26th, 2003, 03:00 PM
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I was surprised, so tried Google on London busses and London buses, and Google accepted both spellings. But of course Google does not tell me how to spell my own language. I do, and for me buses are the tail end of abuses. You may be pleased that a line I have not tried yet is to use the dog-Latin plural omnibusi. But press me hard enough, and I shall, I shall.
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