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I will be going to London this coming weekend 29th-2nd what museums and stuff should I go and check out?
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I will be going to London this coming weekend 29th-2nd what museums and stuff should I go and check out?
War Rooms: http://www.iwm.org.uk/visits/churchill-war-rooms. Much better than it sounds.
I was disappointed by the Imperial War Museum, but it's one of those have-to-say-you've-been there.
The Globe Theatre. No one does Shakespeare like the English: http://www.shakespearesglobe.com/
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My order of preference:
Must see inside of Westminster Abbey. It is amazing. I can't believe that they let people in there.
British Museum. Want to see the Rosetta Stone, the outside of the Parthenon, guardian statues from city walls in ancient Assyria, items that are 1000's of years old, and a million other jaw-dropping pieces of history?
The Tower of London. William the Conqueror's castle beachhead.
The RAF Museum London (Hendon). Has the world's last remaining Typhoon plus lots of other nifty WWII aircraft.
The Churchill War Rooms. Where Churchill and the senior staff administered WWII, and where Churchill lived.
Also, in London, get fish and chips, an English breakfast, and a good curry.
London is awesome.
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Westminster Abbey
(http://electraforge.com/brooke/misc/RAFMuseum/00a_DSC5504.jpg)
Rosetta Stone
(http://electraforge.com/brooke/misc/RAFMuseum/00a-DSC_5686.jpg)
The White Tower
(http://electraforge.com/brooke/misc/RAFMuseum/00a_DSC5583.jpg)
The Last Typhoon
(http://electraforge.com/brooke/misc/RAFMuseum/026_DSC5369.JPG)
Churchill War Rooms
(http://electraforge.com/brooke/misc/RAFMuseum/00a-DSC_0130.jpg)
English Breakfast (with the wife) in pub established 1873
(http://electraforge.com/brooke/misc/RAFMuseum/00a_DSC_5674.jpg)
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Go to to the North of England we still speak to each other and you will not need a Polish or Eritrean phrase book to order a coffee :rofl
Bruv is from down south I rest my case :rofl
There is a big museum of weapons in Leeds.
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http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=y6-AGtjsylw
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Go to Hendon as suggested, you will not regret it.
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Hendon is probably best for your interests and it's Free! Think you can get the tube there also.
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Bruv has a spare room :old:
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Bruv has a spare room :old:
this week my 2 spare rooms are taken. Doing my bit for the community. :aok
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Enjoy Hendon. I certainly did (2008). The tube definitely runs to Hendon. It's a relatively short walk from the station to the museum.
Everything I've read about the Leeds museum has placed it on my bucket list alongside Duxford.
The best part of our trip to Great Britain was to get out of London via a local train to Oxford via Reading (along the Thames). We rode the 100 bus from Oxford to Witney via Eynsham. We were engaged in conversation all along the route and had a marvelous dinner at the Fleece in Witney. The English people are the attraction for us (even if it might be Zack).
Our favorite memory of the entire GB experience,
:salute
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I have just seen that full English breakfast :banana: :aok
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Bruv has a spare room :old:
Heard unspeakable ankle related things happened in there when midway rented it on holiday
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On our trip back to the UK last year we did the day out at the RAF Museum, Hendon. It is well worth it, also make time for a Tower of London tour. If you have time make the effort to get out of London after seeing the sights,you'll find a different country than what you experience in the city. We took the time to go to the west country taking in Stonehenge and Avebury before heading into Wales and going to Cardiff castle.
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I will be going to London this coming weekend 29th-2nd what museums and stuff should I go and check out?
Do you have any spare cash while your over here?
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Not really my dad is footing the bill for the whole trip. I'm flying my step mother over to meet him. She will continue on to Turkey with him.
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I'm sorry, but SOMEONE has to say it....Can we have breakfast with your wife, Brooke? HEhehehehe, looks like a wonderful woman....you're a lucky man!
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Not really my dad is footing the bill for the whole trip. I'm flying my step mother over to meet him. She will continue on to Turkey with him.
Are you sure I need a new gaming PC, can you get me a green card?
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10thmd, after you've made that trip I'd like to know how many native Englishmen you managed to meet. During my trip a quarter of a century ago I suppose the only "real" English people I met were in Cotswold where we made a bus trip. The rest were first generation immigrants from all over the world.
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Your a Johnny Foreigner yourself so how could you tell they were not English?
I would own you in a fist fight as well :old:
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Your a Johnny Foreigner yourself so how could you tell they were not English?
I asked. The hotel clerk was Polish as was the kitchen maid who had a desperate one sided love affair with him. The cleaning ladies were from Gambia and Guinea, iirc. The two girls at the laundry shop were either from Latvia or Lithuania, can't remember any more. The shopkeeper opposite to our hotel was from India or somewhere near. The PizzaHut maid who forgot my pizza on the counter might even have been Finnish although she didn't say it. Etc.
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I don't believe you!
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Oh, and to add to the list: The mummified guy laying in a glass sand box was Egyptian and the swamp mummy hidden in a peep box was Danish. The only Englishmen I'm sure were native visited Finland.
Poor chap, you've been surrounded by Johnny Foreigners... :t
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I'm sorry, but SOMEONE has to say it....Can we have breakfast with your wife, Brooke? HEhehehehe, looks like a wonderful woman....you're a lucky man!
Copprhead, that is very nice of you to say, and I thank you. :aok
My wife is very good to me, and I am very lucky. On our honeymoon, she planned out a giant roadtrip for us to go to, among other things: a Red Bull air race, the US Air Force Museum, Gettysburg, and the Udvar-Hazy flight museum. She also went on a ride with me on a B-24 (The Collings Foundation one that Columbo once flew).
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Your a Johnny Foreigner yourself so how could you tell they were not English?
When I visited, I got to meet Wurzel and SF3. I could tell that they were English because they were so awesome.
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When I visited, I got to meet Wurzel and SF3. I could tell that they were English because they were so awesome.
Do you have spare $5000
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You went to pizza hut? The pizza scene is that bad in London?
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You went to pizza hut? The pizza scene is that bad in London?
Remember, my experience was 25 years ago. PizzaHut was something special to us, we only knew it by name. The chain pizzerias started to spread in the early eighties in Finland, so we had to compare that to what we had.
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Ahh, the American Empire at work.
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Ahh, the American Empire at work.
Capitalist oppressors of the proliatariat!
Is frankie and bennys American
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It is American in the sense that it highlights the desire of the public for a taste of the empire. More than one way to take over the world.
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Capitalist oppressors of the proliatariat!
Is frankie and bennys American
There is Ben and Jerry's ice cream chain. They are Soviet and thus saviors of the proletariat.
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Copprhead, that is very nice of you to say, and I thank you. :aok
My wife is very good to me, and I am very lucky. On our honeymoon, she planned out a giant roadtrip for us to go to, among other things: a Red Bull air race, the US Air Force Museum, Gettysburg, and the Udvar-Hazy flight museum. She also went on a ride with me on a B-24 (The Collings Foundation one that Columbo once flew).
I'm devastated that you found her first! I looked for a good woman like that, never could find one with a computer, a john boat and a Shelby GT.......
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There is Ben and Jerry's ice cream chain. They are Soviet and thus saviors of the proletariat.
Are you saved? :old:
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I will be going to London this coming weekend 29th-2nd what museums and stuff should I go and check out?
I like much of the usual... The imperial war museum is good, but it's even better if you can get to Duxford to see the ones that actually fly. Buckingham is nice. I found the Albert and Victoria museum in Mayfair to be underrated - and while you're there, stop in at Harrod's. The prices aren't as good as in the US but there are unique items there. Beware: you could spend some money. There are pens in that place that cost as much as a 911. i went there mainly just to see it.
The Towers are worthwhile and, if you're there already, there's a little restaurant tucked right down on the Thames next to the towers called Perkin Reveller. I've had many a dinner there. It's a little nouveau but you won't regret it.
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Are you saved? :old:
He was saved. Then they threw him a towel and told him to wipe himself off and leave. That's how Soviet Savin' works.
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Are you saved? :old:
No. Ben and Jerry's ice cream burns me, like sunlight on a vampire.
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Might want to pack a dictionary.
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:)
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Are you saved? :old:
I know I am! :D
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:old:
:rofl
Lies!
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Forget Ben and Jerris, its all about Blue Bell . :neener:
My analysis so far. Pretty bland night life in this part of London. Very where was closed by midnight. But I did meet some fine chaps in the last one that was open and in exchange for some war stories, we are meeting up tonight for a run at the west end and some of the more active bars. Going to hit up the Tower of London and Churchill's war rooms today.
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Capitalist oppressors of the proliatariat!
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rAaWvVFERVA
:)