Originally Posted by elfman

I lived and worked in London for three and a half years and visited lots before and since and I have never at any time experienced this "black stuff up the nose" phenomenon.

Originally Posted by elfman

I lived and worked in London for three and a half years and visited lots before and since and I have never at any time experienced this "black stuff up the nose" phenomenon.

Originally Posted by elfman

I lived and worked in London for three and a half years and visited lots before and since and I have never at any time experienced this "black stuff up the nose" phenomenon.

Originally Posted by Grayling

I lived in Camberwell a few years ago.

I remember a few 'white stuff up the nose' experiences.

Originally Posted by renth

We went to Legoland 3 days ago - cost me £141 to get us in :curse: yes, you read that right, that's over $300!!!! - more expensive than Disneyland in Hong Kong (which was great).

Legoland was shite, all the rides were over 45 minutes queuing, and they were crap. I can't believe how crowded it was even though it was a school day. Apparently is wasn't particularly crowded either.

It took a hour and a half to drive there (40 miles) and another hour and a half to get back and it rained.

Yesterday we went to London, firstly to the Tower of London. I remember it as being good. Anyway, we stood shivering in the rain waiting for a "beefeater" to turn up, and when he does there must have been over 200 people waiting for the guided tour. Naturally no one could hear a thing as he didn't have a megaphone.

So we decided to hire a headphone set and I'd talk the commentary to my family. It started well untill we turned a corner only to be confronted with a fenced off area with building works taking place. The voice in the headseat instructing you to proceed ahead when there was no way you could.

The place where they used to chop heads off was closed too. What a load of sh*te!.

Next the london Eye, that actually very good because I bought expensive queue jumping tickets as I'd had enough of queuing for one holiday. Without these tickets we would have queued 30 minutes for a ticket then 1 hour for the ride.

Anyway, as I went to get my tickets from the machine it printed all out bar one as the machine had run out of paper, more hassle.

I waited for my family to go to the toilet and I was hassled by a beggar who abused me for not buying a "big issue" (it was actually just a rolled up brochure of some description).

As I said London Eye itself was very good.

Next the river cruise for which we sat on the top deck. It was going well untill we went under Tower Bridge and someone spat on my wife from the bridge. The boat turned and went back under Tower Bridge when this time a different scrote, a chav girl, spat her chewing gum which hit a kid next to me.

Coupled with crap weather, filthy public transport and miserable people, it has to be the worst city in a so called developed country in the world.

By the way if you want to travel 1 stop on the tube it's £4. And with travel cards now your RETURN journey has to be off peak too.

What a sh*t city, what a sh*t country. Can't wait to get back to Perth.

Originally Posted by Grayling

I lived in Camberwell a few years ago.

I remember a few 'white stuff up the nose' experiences.

Originally Posted by Grayling

I lived in Camberwell a few years ago.

I remember a few 'white stuff up the nose' experiences.

Originally Posted by Vim Fuego

I hear your pain and agree completely. Not to say comparable experiences don't happen in Oz but it's somehow less ... shite.

Originally Posted by yes of course

m8
i cant say one way or another but i can say that it is a truly sad person that goes to a world city and writes to people, who already know what its like, how bad it is.

my ticket didnt work blah blah blah london is pants. legoland, a danish company, charge to much for a rubbish theme park but i didnt bother to check first, so london is pants.

his poor mrs.
i truly hope she bashed his creditcard

Originally Posted by Hutch

Johnson's Talcum Powder? You raver, you ...

Originally Posted by Vim Fuego

Nowt wrong with a bit of criticism in my view, it's better than believing some shite you read in the travel mags or glorified ad programmes like 'Getaway'.

Maybe someone will read this who DOESN'T know what it's like and save themselves the grief of visiting the place.

Unlikely in the extreme I'll grant you, I wouldn't base a decision on whether or not to scratch my bollocks on any opinion I've read here ...

Originally Posted by Grayling

Well thats probably the only white powder you would know anything about.

.....that or perhaps the dust from your book of clever responses.

Originally Posted by yes of course

agreed.

i would say that you need money to visit unless you can stay with someone.

i went to lisbon pavements were all broken and too many shoe shops.
paris they drive mad and are snotty
berlin, dull unless you know where to look.
barcalona pickpockets
florence pickpockets scooter thieves.
the list is endless..
i loved them all

lisbon was great but dont let your mrs see the shoes

critic is fine if it has some balance