I will be spending about one week in London in December. I'm wondering whether it'll be so cold that we're unable to go outdoors most of the time,especially when I grow up in a tropical country. Also, I wish to watch a musical while I'm in london. Am I suppose to book the tickets in advance or can I get them at the door.

Average high temp is 45 avg low is 38. You can get theatre tickets there. I found a great website on London, gives prices, hours etc. Go down a few days from here and find other London questions and you will find it.

Websites abd other agencies add a percentage for theatre tickets. You might prefer to use a web site to choose a show, ask the phone directory service for the theatre's phone number, take a credit card, and book direct.

Please write if I can help further. Welcome to London

Ben Haines

Tricia and Ben, thanks for your advice.I've actually taken up a tour package in SIngapore. However, I'll be extending (F&E) in London for another days. The problem now is that I want to book the accommodation myself instead of through the agency. I'm not sure if the airport (CDG) is near the hotel I want (Barry House). Please advise. Thanks.

Dear Suzy: I come from a tropical climate too but I've never found London uncomfortable out-of-doors in November and December. Chilly, yes--but not unbearable. I think you may want to resubmit your question about hotels close to the airport. CDG means Charles de Gaulle--in Paris. Possibly you mean Gatwick where I seem to remember seeing desks for a number of Asian airlines. To stay near THAT airport isn't especially convenient, though. It can be reached by rail from Victoria Station in 35 minutes however. Ask your airline to recommend some thing. Good luck! Joan

Thank you for reminding me, Joan. The airport I'll be using is Heathhrow.I'm wondering if anybody knows whether Imperial hotel/President hotel (Russell) are near to this airport.

The Imperial Hotel and the Russel Hotel are on Russell Square, which has a rtube styation on the Piccadilly Line. This is forty minutes direct from Heathrow. It is`walkiing diastyance from the Brirtish Museum and from the musical "Cats". Otherwise, it is 20 minutes by bus from the City or the West End, and the same time vby tube from the South Kensington museums.

Please write again if I can help further. Welcome to London.

Ben Haines

Ben--your advice to Suzy was very helpful to me as well. I will be visiting my boyfriend (who is studying at Oxford this semester) for a week at the end of November. Do you have any advice for a poor American college student regarding cheap entertainment and accomadations? Thanks in advance! Jana

I'll be in London in december, january and fabruary. Maybe I'll travell to Manchester, Liverpool, Wales and Scotland. I prefere to stay in GB. My parents should that I must know Paris. Where I'll spend more money???? Going to France, or staying in GB????? Sorry, but I dont't speak english!

I'll be in London in december, january and fabruary. Maybe I'll travell to Manchester, Liverpool, Wales and Scotland. I prefere to stay in GB. My parents should that I must know Paris. Where I'll spend more money???? Going to France, or staying in GB????? Sorry, but I dont't speak english!

Cheap accomodation includes the Youth Hostel at 36 Carter Lane, EC4, phone 0044 171 236 4965, fax 0044 171 236 7681, in the City just south of St Paul's Cathedral, and, cheaper yet, the St Christopher Inn, phone 0044 171 407 1856, fax 0044 171 403 7715, and address 121 Borough High Street, London SE1.

Music is free in the foyers of the National Theatre and of the Royal Festival Hall, bioth on the south bank, in the Waterloo area. Also at the Royal College of Music in Southg Kensington, phone 589 3643, the Royal Academy of Music near Baker Street, phone 873 7373, and the Guildhall School of Music and Drama in the Barbican, 628 2571. The Guildhall School may have plays for free, too.

Jazz is free in certain pubs: Time Out magazine lists them. But you have to pay for a beer. There's much free classical music by soloists, trios abnd so on in city churches at lunch time: the tourist information office just south of St Paul's Cathedral has monthly lists.

Entry is free to the National Gallery abnd the National Portrait Gallery, both north of Trafalgar Square, and to the British Museum, on which you could spend days. The Science Museum in South Kensington is free from 4.30 to closing time. The great medieval churches are Westminster Abbey, St Barthomolew the Great (north of St Paul';s Cathedral), and Southwark Cathedral, by London Bridge station.

You're in a good week for lectures. Here, from a list I keeep on disc, is what I know of.

Sunday, 23rd

1.10 James Gillray and the royal family. National Portrait Gallery, St Martin's Lane, Leicester Square tube

Monday, 24th.

12pm. What are the Dead Sea Scrolls ? The Chapel, Kings College, Temple tube

12.30. Coffee houses and great rooms. Royal Society of Arts, Charing Cross tube.

2pm. Antimatter -- imagination to application. Room 2C, Kings College, Temple tube

5.30 Tagore, Gandhi, Nehru and the West. Gresham College, Barnards Inn, Chancery Lane tube

Tuesday, 25th.

1pm. Alzheimer's Disrease. Gresham College, Barnards Inn, Chancery Lane tube

1.10. Sir Walter Scott and Abbotsford. National Portrait Gallery, St Martin's Lane, Leicester Square tube

1.10 James Gillray and the royal family. National Portrait Gallery, St Martin's Lane, Leicester Square tube

1.15. Computer versions of human anatomy, for surgery. Darwin Lecture Theatre, University College London. Goodge Street tube.

5pm. Asylum treatment regimes in India 1859 to 1870. Room G3, School of Oriental and African Studies. Russell Square tube

5.30. Jazz as ethical model. Gresham College, Barnards Inn, Chancery Lane tube

5pm. Frontiers, Migration and minorities in Central Europe. Room D702, London School of Economics. Holborn tube.

5.30. Multi-ethnicity and state consolidation in Central Asia. Lecture Theatre, School of Oriental and African Studies. Russell Square tube

5.30. Tagore, Gandhi, Nehru and the West. Gresham College, Barnards Inn, Chancery Lane tube

Wednesday, 26th.

1pm. The schooling of entrepreneurs. Gresham College, Barnards Inn, Chancery Lane tube

5.15. Entrepreneurship, government and society in Russia. Room 336, School of Slavonic and East European Studies, North Wing, Senate House. Russell Square tube

5.15. A bit of philosophical autobiography. Baroness Warnock. Room 1B23, Kings College, Temple tube

6pm. Law reform and the political process. The Chair of rhe Law Commission. Great Hall, Kings College, Temple tube

Thursday, 27th.

10.30. The Data Protection Registrar on digital images as evidence. Evidence to House of Lords Committee. Public entrance (go direct to policeman), Parliament, Westminster tube

1pm. The Brain as a Computer. Gresham College, Barnards Inn, Chancery Lane tube

1.10. William Blake: Songs of Innocence and Experience. National Portrait Gallery, Leicester Square tube.

1.15. Bayes versus Frequentist statistics: what's the fuss about ? Darwin Lecture Theatre, University College London. Goodge Street tube.

5.30. Cosmic explosions and the creation of the elements. The Royasl Society. Trafalgar Square tube.

5.30. Liberty and New Labour. Gresham College, Barnards Inn, Chancery Lane tube

5.45pm. Global Accounting Standards: A Goal within Reach. Rooms S215 and No 1, London Business School, Marylebone tube

6pm. Rethinking imprisonment. Committee Room, Kings College, Temple tube

6pm. A single state in Israel and Palestine. Lecture Theatre, School of Oriental and African Studies. Russell Square tube

6pm. Design: those that go down to the sea in ships. Pre-book, Joanna Thackeray, 930 9286. Royal Society of Arts, John Adam Street. Charing Cross tube.

Friday, 28th. 1.10. Myth and reality in medieval Bedlam hospital. Museum of London, St Paul's tube

9pm. Gardening as Ecology. The Royal Institution, Albemarle Street. Piccadilly tube

Saturday, 29th. 1pm. William Blake: Songs of Innocence and Experience. National Portrait Gallery, Leicester Square tube.

Sunday, 30th. 3pm. Sir John Vanbrugh and Nicholas Hawksmoor. National Portrait Gallery, Leicester Square tube

For cheap food I'd suggest, on Panton Street just west of Leicester Square, the Stockpot and the Pierre Victoire, and on the south bank the self service restaurant of the National Film Theatre in Waterloo (three minutes walk from the Royal Festival Hall and National Theatre), the Founders Arms pub at the south end of Blackfriars Bridge, and the Masrket Porter in Borough Market, beside Southwark Cathedral. Also, the student canteens of Kings College, Suffolk Stret (Temple tube: 15 minutes walk from the National Gallery abnd NPG)), and f the School of Oriental and African Studies (Russell Square tube: ten minutes walk from the British Museum). The student places offer lunch only, Mondays to Fridays only.

Please write again if I can help further.

Welcome to London

Cheap accomodation includes the Youth Hostel at 36 Carter Lane, EC4, phone 0044 171 236 4965, fax 0044 171 236 7681, in the City just south of St Paul's Cathedral, and, cheaper yet, the St Christopher Inn, phone 0044 171 407 1856, fax 0044 171 403 7715, and address 121 Borough High Street, London SE1.

Music is free in the foyers of the National Theatre and of the Royal Festival Hall, bioth on the south bank, in the Waterloo area. Also at the Royal College of Music in Southg Kensington, phone 589 3643, the Royal Academy of Music near Baker Street, phone 873 7373, and the Guildhall School of Music and Drama in the Barbican, 628 2571. The Guildhall School may have plays for free, too.

Jazz is free in certain pubs: Time Out magazine lists them. But you have to pay for a beer. There's much free classical music by soloists, trios abnd so on in city churches at lunch time: the tourist information office just south of St Paul's Cathedral has monthly lists.

Entry is free to the National Gallery abnd the National Portrait Gallery, both north of Trafalgar Square, and to the British Museum, on which you could spend days. The Science Museum in South Kensington is free from 4.30 to closing time. The great medieval churches are Westminster Abbey, St Barthomolew the Great (north of St Paul';s Cathedral), and Southwark Cathedral, by London Bridge station.

For cheap food I suggest, on Panton Stret just west of Lweicester Square, the Stockpot and Pierre Victoire, and south of the river the self service restaurant of the National Film Theatre in Waterloo (three minutes walk from the Royal Festival Hall and National Theatre), the Founders Arms pub at the south end of Blackfriars Bridge, and the Masrket Porter in Borough Market, beside Southwark Cathedral. Also, the student canteens of Kings College, Suffolk Stret (Temple tube: 15 minutes walk from the National Gallery abnd NPG)), and f the School of Oriental and African Studies (Russell Square tube: ten minutes walk from the British Museum). The student places offer lunch only, Mondays to Fridays only.

Please write again if I can help further.

Welcome to London

How come u get all the responses and i get zilce? It's just not fair!