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They still do them but I guess they are phasing them out with the Oyster becoming more acceptable:

Select type Start Date Price Quantity Adult Zones 1-2 dd/mm/yyyy £9.00
Adult Zones 1-4 dd/mm/yyyy £11.40
Adult Zones 1-6 dd/mm/yyyy £17.00
Child Zones 1-2 dd/mm/yyyy £4.50
Child Zones 1-4 dd/mm/yyyy £5.70
Child Zones 1-6 dd/mm/yyyy £8.50
 
Madame Tussaud's first thing today, flowed by a stroll through Regents Park, and a walk along the canal to Camden Lock, for a couple of sharpeners and a spot of lunch, before heading to Regents Street for some minor cash-haemorrhaging. Beautiful morning/afternoon for it too.
 
TBH cant remember the last time I actually went shopping in Regent Street! I get as close as JL Oxford Street then get all dizzy and have to dash back to offices in Victoria!

Takes a brave man to tackle that road during school holidays....
 
I love the cafe at the top of JL and has great wifi and loads of space. Great place to work

London is blessed with great parks but Regents is the most beautiful of the central ones. Used to work bang next to it
 
If you find yourselves anywhere near The Tower/Tower Bridge and you like Indian food, try the Mala restaruant in St Katharine's Dock. The food is to die for and they do a set price menu at lunchtimes. Nice bar just inside the dock near the Tower side of the Bridge where you can sit outside and enjoy a cocktail or 3 afterwards and admire the boats.
 
And if in that area walk up through wapping where there are a couple of famous riverside pubs and although converted into flats, a real sense of old east end docklands. You can easily walk more or less along the thames path to canary wharf (limehosue basin is worth seeing). Some great views too

even better is to cycle it through the isle of dogs across to greenwich and then follow the route through rotherhithe etc, which again is full of sights, back to Tower bridge

I do the route frequently
 
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Or for the best Indian ever, go to veerswamis (god knows how it's spelt!) just off regents street (think it's called swallow lane or something?) incredible...


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Grass

National portrait gallery on trafalgar sq is a gem. Appeals to anyone and the davd bailey exhibition is a must see

Also across road in st martins lane is a great coffee shop called Notes

You are bang next to Covent garden too and if after a burger Byron near both the above is true American diner experience. Chain all round the city
 
Olympic Park this morning (no idea why other than missus wanted to see it). Now in Spitalfields market having a spot of lunch......disappointingly, I was here about a year ago, and never realised it was Spitalfields. London Museum being touted next, though might swing by NPG on the way back to the gaff, if time allows - off to see the Chinese ballet-dancer Birrie Erriot tonight (well, it is her birthday).
 
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Unlikely, Bar, as nippers are effectively in same room as us.

Rest assured I will rattle the tail off it when we get back on Sunday though. :cool:
 
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Did we really need to know that?

Museum of London is good.

Careful at npg. I'm either stopping by there or Tate later
 
LUKE said:
How much is a travel card these days or have they been abolished.
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31.40 for a weekly Zones 1-2 and around 120 for a monthly. You'd be mad to live outside Zone 2 if you work centrally (and are renting).

Going to Fulham-Norwich this afternoon, completing the tour around the London Premiership and Championship grounds.
 
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I'm off back home to visit London next week as it goes, staying with my aunty in Camden. Visit some old mates.
 
Today's itinerary was:

Portobello Road market (managed to swerve the £98 fish-knife set, but copped a lovely set of cuffies for about half that)
Harrods (went looking for shades but their choice was dreadful)
Tate Modern (very cool Eggleston photo-exhibit)
The Globe
Borough Market
Hyde Park (walk from HP Corner to Bayswater end, with a pit-stop at the Lido Bar)
Topped-off with a nice Mexican nose-bag and a jug of Margeritas
London Marathon for me tomorrow.



I've lied at one point above. See if you can guess where.
 
Or it's a Christopher eccleston (as portraying the ninth doctor) photo exhibition....

Don't forget of course, with the marathon today comes very early opening times at the pubs :)


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Ballydoyle said:
Brave to go to Portobello Road - its a five minute walk from home for me and I never go :)
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Great food stalls on a sat though

But the hidden gem is golbourne road market, branching off towards trellick tower. As portoblello would have been 40 years ago maybe and really unique street
 
Half of Italy appeared to be on Portobello Road yesterday - the place was fecking insane.

I take it Notting Hill is in two distinct parts? The flash bit (wherever that was) and the utter sh*it-hole up around NHG tube station?

Heading home today, after a very enjoyable trip. Clive, I've nothing but good things to say about the Bayswater area, and wouldn't hesitate to stay there again. Great spot for a tourist to base themselves, imo.
 
Not really. Like all london its very mixed. You didnt look closely enough.

South end and holland park is smarter than north and westbourne grove.overall but its not that simple

bayswater is good location and central line is excellent of course. But most lines are these days bar the northern perhpd
 
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