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[laliandra]

Or, Things To Do in London When You're Cool!

Hey Guys.

So my dear friend brimtoast is visiting London this week, and wanted a list of cool not super touristy things to see and do with her parents while they're there. I have y few ideas, but I know that I have Flistees with good London knowledge, so I'm asking you all for ideas too.
And then we can create the greatest guide to London that livejournal has ever known!

Okay I'll start.

I lovelovelove the South Bank. It can be kinda busy and everything but still. There is always something cool going on, there's the really great bookshop that we had a marmfish picnic in, art exhibitions, the book fair, and let us not forget, the busker who sang a serial killer song especially for me.

In places to eat, I love the World Food Cafe in Neil's Yard near Covent Garden. There is also a amazing Moroccan restaurant there that I can't remember the name of for the life of me.

I say, go to the British Library, it's incredible.

Go for a drink in the new, gorgeous St Pancreas station and read the poetry in the floor.

What about you guys? Any suggestions?

(PS. Man, after this I am going to have to think of some sights to see in Leeds!)

(PPS look, I have worked out how to do line breaks on my phone \O/)

Comments

[laliandra.livejournal.com]

Hey, I love super touristy stuff too! It's just all the guide books etc already talk about all that stuff.

Wait, what is on your life goal list?

If I ever came to California, I would be a total tourist :D

[eternal-vows.livejournal.com]

Oh, it was an English assignment for my English portfolio last year. (205/200 points, and that's after I turned it late and threw a bunch of crap together for the last days. I didn't have to turn it in at all, since I had a 170% in the class from these really easy, easy extra credit stuff -- read books, and I did that everyday -- but the teacher insisted.)

25 Life-Specific Goals That Will Make You Doubt My Sanity (Sanity? What Sanity?)

1.Play piano at a friend’s wedding for free.
2.Win National Novel Writing Month three consecutive times. (NaNoWriMo: Challenge yourself to writing a 50,000 word novel in the month of November.)
3.Attend a book signing of an author whose works I enjoy reading.
4.Dye hair a crazy, wacky, unnatural color that will make the parentals hit the roof.
5.Take a self-defense class.
6.Tame a raven and make it my minion. Or, if all else fails, buy a big dog (maybe a Labrador Retriever) that will defend me. And name him one of the following: Patrick (after Lana’s dog in Gone by Michael Grant), Buster (after Jack Carpenter’s dog in The Night Stalker by James Swain), or Woofers (after the dog in that one movie with the fire and the girl and the snake).
7.Have a family of any kind. We can feature on the show Family of Freaks!
8.Publish a New York Times bestselling novel that is not a cookbook. Then point and laugh at the authors who published cookbooks because they’re losers who weaseled their way into the NYT.
9.Write a completed trilogy. (Linked with Goal #2.)
10.Own a two-story, four-bedroom house that has a different color scheme for each room.
11.Paint a mural.
12.Learn how to play the clarinet. And then say this line with a straight face: “My mouth hurts from blowing!”
13.Attend a rock concert and buy a t-shirt sporting the band’s name.
14.Travel to England, buy an I <3 London shirt, and take no less than fifty photos of interesting things (and not, say, the sidewalk. Though I’m sure the English have very pleasant sidewalks.) And if I’m not dirt poor by then: trips to France and/or Germany.
15.Drive a car across America and visit its monuments and tourist traps, preferably with one or two friends. That way I won’t be the only one mugged on the streets!
16.Run away and join the circus. Or at least work up the commitment to stretch my hamstrings so that I can actually touch my toes without bending my knees or amputating my shins.
17.Record an audiobook.
18.Participate in ScriptFrenzy. (ScriptFrenzy: Challenge yourself to writing a 50-page screenplay in the month of April.)
19.Participate in National Blog Posting Month (NaBloPoMo: Blog every single day of a chosen month.)
20.Acquire the National Guild of Piano Teacher’s diploma.
21.Bake and decorate a cake with three or more tiers.
22.A girl can’t be perfect every day of her life: Get drunk (read: not wasted); get a tattoo (a small one); and dress as a boy for a day and see how many people fall for the trick (alternatively, dress as a boy and see how many girls fall for the trick).
23.Run a mile in under six minutes, like one of those hamster-on-a-wheel athletes.
24.Crochet a blanket. (Scarves are of moderate difficulty to me. Blankets require quite a bit of concentration and devotion on my part. Both traits are, of course, traits I lack.)
25.Never fall in love.

Ha. I am in California, and I am still a total tourist. Though granted, there are tons of awesome things to see in CA (Hollywood, Pier 39, Chinatown, Disneyland, Great America, Monterey Aquarium, Fisherman's Wharf, Half-Moon Bay, Yosemite, Yellowstone, Hearst Castle, etc, etc). When I go to England, I will be a...super duper totally way totally tourist. And all the UK Fishies will edge away from me and try to sink into the floor in embarrassment while I buy keychains, t-shirts, and yack people's ears off with my American accent.