In rec.travel.europe Harvey V wrote:

    : You might consider viewing some of the smaller City churches (by Wren)
    : by attending the free lunch-time recitals (lunch-time is 1:00 - 2:00).
    : St Lawrence Jewry (by the Guildhall -- also a good museum) does these
    : on (I think) Tuesdays, and I've been to others at St Bride's (off Fleet
    : Street) which were excellent. You should be able to check out the
    : listings for these through the various "what's on" sites.

    : It's a very pleasant way to spend an hour, with good music, in an
    : historic and pleasant setting; refreshing thing to do before/after
    : lunch, and between the museums trail.

Pick up a short walking guide to the City churches (tourist centres or
in a church vestibule). Go on a weekday, after 10AM, and visit as many as
possible. See the Henry Moore altar at St Stephen's Walbrook and Pepys
grave in the Dickens-described St Olave's churchyard. As Harvey V
pointed out, see a lunchtime concert. Spend half a day if you have time,
either following the route in a guide or following the route of the
London Wall Walk, which begins outside the Tower tube station.
But don't go weekends - few churches are open.
Ed

In article , Ed Dente
writes
    >Pick up a short walking guide to the City churches (tourist centres or
    >in a church vestibule).
The only "tourist centre" that will have this is the one run by the City
Corporation, just across Saint Paul's Churchyard from Saint Paul's
Cathedral itself. They actually have all sorts of goodies in there are
they're *very* helpful

    > Go on a weekday, after 10AM, and visit as many as
    >possible. See the Henry Moore altar at St Stephen's Walbrook and Pepys
    >grave in the Dickens-described St Olave's churchyard.
Indeed. Saint Stephen Walbrook is actually one of the most interesting
of all the City Churches and is well placed for a look at the Mansion
House (next door, the official residence of the Lord Mayor) and the Bank
of England.

    > As Harvey V
    >pointed out, see a lunchtime concert. Spend half a day if you have time,
    >either following the route in a guide or following the route of the
    >London Wall Walk, which begins outside the Tower tube station.
The shop at the Museum of London sells a good, concise guide to the Wall
Walk for some tiny sum. (The Museum of London, though, is difficult to
find at the best of times, almost impossibly so at the moment as the
entrance is being rebuilt. It's near Barbican Underground Station or
about a ten minute walk from Saint Paul's Cathedral. But it's worth
the effort, especially on a rainy day. London's past is *vividly*
recreated there, better than anywhere I know.)

    >But don't go weekends - few churches are open.
Indeed. The same applies to most other business in The City.
However, if you only want to look at exteriors, then it is a sometimes
lovely, hauntingly quiet time to go.

Oh by the way, while you're in that part of London, go and have a look
at the Guildhall, the headquarters of the City Corporation. Go on a
weekday and you can normally go inside the Hall itself. Don't get put
off by the security guards and checks. That's just a necessary evil
nowadays and, provided there's no big event coming up, the staff are
normally delighted to see anyone!

--
Ian Jelf, MITG, Birmingham, UK
Registered "Blue Badge" Tourist Guide for
London & the Heart of England
http://www.bluebadge.demon.co.uk

On Thu, 30 Jan 2003 19:41:22 GMT, Ian Jelf wrote

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    >
    > Oh by the way, while you're in that part of London, go and have a
    > look at the Guildhall, the headquarters of the City Corporation.
    > Go on a weekday and you can normally go inside the Hall itself.
    > Don't get put off by the security guards and checks. That's just
    > a necessary evil nowadays and, provided there's no big event
    > coming up, the staff are normally delighted to see anyone!

While there, it's also worth checking out the Guildhall Library -- and
especially the bookshop. It's a bit specialised, but for us
topogrpahical types it's a wonderful shop for books on the City, cards,
maps, archival repro stuff and such-like. (Aside from the archive
material, the Library also has a pretty comprehensive supply of freebie
pamphlets on things like concerts and goings-on in the City.)

--
Cheers, Harvey

For e-mail, harvey becomes whhvs.

On Thu, 30 Jan 2003, Ed Dente
thoughtfully scribbled
    >In rec.travel.europe Kat wrote:
    >:>* London Transport Museum
    >:>* Kensington Palace
    >:>* Tower of London
    >:>* Globe Theatre
    >:>* Cabinet War Rooms
    >: Until April 30th you can get two tickets for the price of one at the
    >: above and many other interesting places including the Tower Bridge
    >: Experience and the London Dungeon.
    >: You'll be able to pick up the bright pink leaflet at any tube station.

    >Interesting! Any web site or further info about this offer? I'd like to
    >check before we go.

I haven't been able to find anything much online except this,
http://www.thetube.com/content/events/
--
>Kat<

In rec.travel.europe Ian Jelf wrote:

    :>But don't go weekends - few churches are open.
    : Indeed. The same applies to most other business in The City.
    : However, if you only want to look at exteriors, then it is a sometimes
    : lovely, hauntingly quiet time to go.

Absolutely! Especially stop in the churchyard of St. Dunstan's in the
East (ruined church - only tower exists) for a haunting picnic lunch.
The Leadenhall Market on a Sunday is likewise atmospheric, as are the
courtyards and alleys behind St Peter Cornhill and St. Michael Cornhill.

On Sundays, the quietest time of the week in the City, you may even
stumble across movie an tv commercial filming and print ad photography.

Mr. Jelf also mentions the Guildhall below. During the week you can also
visit a hidden gem there - the Guildhall Art Museum.
Jeez, I could spend a week in the City on vacation and never go into
Westminster!
Cheers,
Ed

    : Oh by the way, while you're in that part of London, go and have a
look
    : at the Guildhall, the headquarters of the City Corporation. Go on a
    : weekday and you can normally go inside the Hall itself. Don't get put
    : off by the security guards and checks. That's just a necessary evil
    : nowadays and, provided there's no big event coming up, the staff are
    : normally delighted to see anyone!

    : --
    : Ian Jelf, MITG, Birmingham, UK
    : Registered "Blue Badge" Tourist Guide for
    : London & the Heart of England
    : http://www.bluebadge.demon.co.uk

--

In rec.travel.europe loobyloo wrote:

    : Another place you might be interested in is the Geffryre Museum in
    : Hackney. It's a series of reconstructed domestic interiors from Tudor
    : times to the 50s.

Seconded. Especially if you are there at Christmas time, when they
decorate each period room in the appropriate Christmas style.
That exhibit is worth a trip in itself.
See the late 17th c. room laid out w/ the Christmas dinner Samuel Pepys
describes in his diary!
Cheers,
Ed

First Sunday of the month Paris museums are free. Lines in tourist season
make buying a museum pass ($10.00/day) well worth while.

--mikeb

In article , Dave Newt wrote:
    >congokid wrote:
    >> >I recommend a visit to http://www.thebritishmuseum.ac.uk/ to check out
    >> >much of their collection. I see they have a Duerer exhibit at this
    >> >time.
    >>
    >> That's a pay to enter exhibits that I noticed on my last visit to the BM
    >> before Christmas last. I didn't think it would be worth it. A few days
    >A colleague of mine said she went and it was fantastic. Not sure if
    >Duerer is my thing, but supposedly good if it's yours.
    >> A journalist friend in Paris tells me that all journalists there are
    >> issued with passes that provide free entry into every museum and gallery
    >> in the city (or country?). I don't know if they'd pay otherwise, but I'd
    >> love something like that in London - as an editor I'm sure I'd qualify.
    >There must be several groups that can do this. Journalists I don't know
    >about, but all teachers (or at least university teachers) get a thing
    >called a "carte professionelle". I had one myself when I taught at the
    >Sorbonne. This gives you free entry to the vast majority of museums.
    >(Not every single one IIRC, though perhaps a discount in others.) In
    >fact, I have no idea what the carte professionelle was actually for - I
    >don't even remember having to use it for any other purpose.
    >And they are all free the xth somethingday of each month for everyone
    >anyway. (I say xth somethingday as I have forgotten - I am inclined to
    >say "first Monday", but then lots of places are shut Mondays in Paris,
    >so perhaps not...)
    >dave
    >dave

Ed Dente - a made-up name if ever
I've heard one - said

    >Also - WE can always use the lavs w/ our Harrod's account card, but you
    >also get free use if you're pregnant, so if one really plans ahead...


The lengths people will go to to have a piss in London nowadays. Plan
a minimum of sixteen years of misery nine months in advance, but at
least you can have a free shit.
--

Cliff Laine, Flat 798, The Old Lard Factory, Lancaster
remove any trace of rudeness before you reply
__________________________________________________ _________
MP: I shall support you whenever you are right.
Melbourne: What I want is men who will support
me when I am wrong.

And I stood back there astounded at
    >Plan
    >a minimum of sixteen years of misery nine months in advance, but at
    >least you can have a free shit.

Good God, are your kids that bad?!
-
vanessa

Rasputin used to keep a small tabby kitten in the
shelter of his beard. This bizarre relationship
came about when Rasputin was doing work experience
in a cattery.

"vjc" wrote in message
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    > And I stood back there astounded at
    > >Plan
    > >a minimum of sixteen years of misery nine months in advance, but at
    > >least you can have a free shit.
    > Good God, are your kids that bad?!
    > -
Maybe loobyloo was *that* bad to his/her parents.

Ian Jelf wrote
    > Oh by the way, while you're in that part of London, go and have a look
    > at the Guildhall, the headquarters of the City Corporation. Go on a
    > weekday and you can normally go inside the Hall itself. Don't get put
    > off by the security guards and checks.

I visited the Bank of England Museum and was met at the door by a very
impressive doorman in pink morning tails. He took one look at me and
said "the Museum, sir?".

How I wished I could have replied, "No, new accounts actually"!

I'm not sure which exhibit I most wanted to take home - a stack of
gold bullion or a Reuters keyboard.

Owain

And I stood back there astounded at
    >> Good God, are your kids that bad?!
    >> -
    >Maybe loobyloo was *that* bad to his/her parents.

Ahhhhhhhhh


-
Vee

My wild oats have turned to prunes and All Bran.

when last time visitng London I wet to www.dolke.co.uk as friend of
mine told me about it. They have a list of tourist attractions +
suggestions from tourists. I even gave them mine.
Enjoy your holiday