coming to england! let clay meet you!(OT)

[alsih2o]

i will be leaving the 27th of january, and should be in london for 3 weeks.

i plan multiple trips to the tate and the british museum, but my plans are pretty open. who lives close enough that i can bug them? (don't worry, i have a place to stay )

i am also gladly taking suggestions for my "gotta see it before i leave the island" list

i assume we can have at least 1 enworld get-together gab-fest while i am on that side of the atlantic?

 

[Mathew_Freeman]

I recommend the London Eye - like a Giant Ferris Wheel, but cooler. Mostly cos that way I can go on it too...

I should be in London during that time! If there's a ENWorld gathering, count me in on it!

 

[Dragongirl]

They let cow heads in England? Bet you will have problems coming back.

 

[ninthcouncil]

They let cow heads in England? Bet you will have problems coming back.

Cow heads? I think I'm missing something here

But, seriously, I live in West London, so I'm sure that over the course of 3 weeks we can arrange something!

 

[Sialia]

Sir John Soane's Museum
"An amazing, visualy rich, and conceptually provocative individual vision of densely associative multimedia in the early nineteenth century, created by the architect himself, and preserved intact."



13 Lincoln's Inn Fields, London, WC2A 3BP
Sir John Soane's Museum is open free*: Tuesday to Saturday inclusive, 10-5pm. Also on the first Tuesday evening of each month, 6-9pm when parts of the Museum are lit with candles. There is a Museum tour each Saturday at 2.30pm; tickets are on sale from 2.00pm and cost £3.

http://www.soane.org

 

[Mathew_Freeman]

I recommend seeing some theatre shows in London, because we have some great shows at the moment. Depending on your tastes I can recommend some...

The reason I say this on here is that a) I know where to get half-price tickets (go to Leicester Square and find the Official Half-Price ticket booth) and because I've either seen or heard about most of them and I can advise you about them...

Plus, we can give directions to Forbidden Planet, Ork's Nest and the London Indoor Gaming Shop!

 

[Sialia]

There was a very fine museum of mechanical amusements in Covent Garden when I visited seven years ago, or thereabouts. It was one the the very best things we visited in London.

I think perhaps this is the link to the folks who ran that

http://www.cabaret.co.uk/

but the website seems to be saying that they are not curently open to visitors, and may be not be in that location anymore? This seems entirely to sad to be true, so you must ask the locals what the real deal is.

And there is a link to these folks instead: http://www.automatomania.com/
where maybe you could get a small taste of what the full glory would have been like.

This link may also be helpful:

http://www.museumfinder.co.uk/Application/corporate/museumlinks1GB.asp?c1=London

I am assuming you already know you cannot miss the V&A and the British Museum, so will say no more about that.

 

[alsih2o]

I am assuming you already know you cannot miss the V&A and the British Museum, so will say no more about that.

my only problem here is figuring out how many days to spend with the collection of islamic ceramics

great help everyone, lots of info i haven't gotten elsewhere!

i look forward to seeing everyone and everything i can

 

[Sialia]

http://www.firepower.org.uk/

Museum of firepower looks interesting, although I've never been.

I note that they offer to host children's birthday parties.

This thought is sufficiently surreal that I thought I needed to share it with you. Or is that post-modern?

 

[Sialia]

And the next time I get over the Pond, I am definitely going to the William Morris Gallery

http://www.lbwf.gov.uk/wmg/home.htm