On Thu, 23 Jan 2003 08:11:43 GMT, [email protected]
(Paul Louis) wrote:

    >On 22 Jan 2003 13:51:17 -0800, [email protected] (Owain)
    >wrote:
    >>> * Cabinet War Rooms
    >>Very interesting and one of my favourites. But I see no mention of the
    >>main Imperial War Museum ?
    >Definitely. If you have any interest at all in the military history,
    >military technology, the First or Second World War or the Holocaust
    >the Imperial War Museum is a must. The Holocaust exhibit is especially
    >a must see (though for obvious reasons not for young children).

The Imperial War Museum Air Museum at Duxford is a must.


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[email protected] (Hatunen) blurted:

    >Uh, no. Hampton Court is not accessible by Tube. But there is train
    >service from Waterloo Station.


You're kidding?!


Can anyone else tell me how to get to Hampton Court by tube?

Is there a tube that goes there?

To Hampton Court?

Surely?


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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.

[email protected] (David) blurted:


Mind your feet.
-
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.

On Thu, 23 Jan 2003 18:28:28 +0000, vjc wrote:

    > [email protected] (Hatunen) blurted:
    >>Uh, no. Hampton Court is not accessible by Tube. But there is train
    >>service from Waterloo Station.
    >You're kidding?!
No. I'm not.

    >Can anyone else tell me how to get to Hampton Court by tube?
    >Is there a tube that goes there?

Maybe some sewer pipes to there.

    >To Hampton Court?
    >Surely?

Why the sarcasm? Is this your usual approach when you've made mistake?
In front of the whole world?


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On Thu, 23 Jan 2003 18:29:01 +0000, vjc wrote:

    > [email protected] (David) blurted:
    >Mind your feet.

Or more to the point, your head. Wouldn't want him galumphing back
with it.


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On Thu, 23 Jan 2003 17:18:46 GMT, Barbara Vaughan wrote
    > "Miss L.Toe" wrote:


-snip re: Harrod's-

    >> Maybe they have relaxed the rules recently, but I'd still advise
    >> the OP to dress reasonably smart - you get much better attention
    >> from the sales staff then, and thats half the fun of the place -
    >> pretending to be super rich.
    >
    > I actually think such a policy is a bit obnoxious. I'd rather shop
    > where they don't treat the super rich better than the rest of us.
    > But maybe that's too much to hope for these days.


I think the snobbery aspect of giving lots of attention to rich
customers and snubbing those who the shop-keeper figures are riff-raff
is as old as the keeping of shops, rather than something that's typical
of 'these days'. (In fact, I think it's found much less today than it
was in the past.)

--
Cheers,
Harvey

For e-mail, harvey becomes whhvs.

In article , Miss
L.Toe writes
    >Maybe they have relaxed the rules recently, but I'd still advise the OP to
    >dress reasonably smart - you get much better attention from the sales staff
    >then, and thats half the fun of the place - pretending to be super rich.


Well, I'm one of those Harrods Account holders (who get to use the loos
free) and I have never dressed up to go there. It's just a shop, after
all. They take my money as promptly as anyone else's.
--
Marie Lewis

In article , Miss
L.Toe writes
    >Agreed - but really Harrods is full of either the super rich (not too many
    >of those around) or tourists looking for the cheapest thing just so they can
    >get the carrier bag.


It is not full of the super rich. They go to Harvey Nick's or the
little boutiques on Beauchamp Place.
--
Marie Lewis

In article , [email protected]
(Miss L.Toe) wrote:

    > (Does anyone know what happend to the stuffed blue whale they used
    > to
    > have ?)

It was still there last time I looked...probably half a dozen years ago. I
remembered being scared out of my six-year-old wits by the whale on my
first visit but have now achieved closure on that episode.

[email protected] (Hatunen) blurted:

    >Why the sarcasm? Is this your usual approach when you've made mistake?
    >In front of the whole world?

No I was being shirty (without much reason, true, so I apologise to
you for that), because you hadn't bothered to read the other 3 replies
before posting the exact same thing.

And this isn't the whole world, this is a bunch of bitter 40 something
blokes, as is the normal way on usenet.
-
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.

[email protected] (Hatunen) blurted:

    >>Mind your feet.
    >Or more to the point, your head. Wouldn't want him galumphing back
    >with it.

Mmm, wouldn't be too brillig then, would I?
-
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:

    > >Uh, no. Hampton Court is not accessible by Tube. But there is train
    > >service from Waterloo Station.
    >
    > You're kidding?!
    >
    > Can anyone else tell me how to get to Hampton Court by tube?
    >
    > Is there a tube that goes there?
    >
    > To Hampton Court?
    >
    > Surely?
    >
    >

Vanessa,

I know you think it's trivial. I agree with you, the distinction
between ex-BR and tube is silly. But this is a group for tourists, and
unless they are lucky enough to have a London Connections map
http://www.londontransport.co.uk/tfl...cs/lon_con.pdf
then they are not going to find it on their tube map.

joan

--
Joan McGalliard, UK http://www.mcgalliard.org

Miss L.Toe wrote:

    > I spotted you missed the Natural History Museum.

I'd recommend booking a tour of the Darwin center, if you have time.

joan
--
Joan McGalliard, UK http://www.mcgalliard.org

On Thu, 23 Jan 2003 18:43:52 +0000, vjc wrote:

    > [email protected] (Hatunen) blurted:
    >>Why the sarcasm? Is this your usual approach when you've made mistake?
    >>In front of the whole world?
    >No I was being shirty (without much reason, true, so I apologise to
    >you for that), because you hadn't bothered to read the other 3 replies
    >before posting the exact same thing.

You apparently assume that one receives all replies simultaneously. I
suggeat you lear how usenet works, and how messages are propagated.

    >And this isn't the whole world, this is a bunch of bitter 40 something
    >blokes, as is the normal way on usenet.

I'm actually a bitter 60 something bloke...


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On Thu, 23 Jan 2003 18:51:55 +0000, jem*NO-SPAM*@netspace.net.au (Joan
McGalliard) wrote:

    >vjc wrote:
    >> >Uh, no. Hampton Court is not accessible by Tube. But there is train
    >> >service from Waterloo Station.
    >>
    >> You're kidding?!
    >>
    >> Can anyone else tell me how to get to Hampton Court by tube?
    >>
    >> Is there a tube that goes there?
    >>
    >> To Hampton Court?
    >>
    >> Surely?
    >>
    >>
    >Vanessa,
    >I know you think it's trivial. I agree with you, the distinction
    >between ex-BR and tube is silly. But this is a group for tourists, and
    >unless they are lucky enough to have a London Connections map
    >http://www.londontransport.co.uk/tfl...cs/lon_con.pdf
    >then they are not going to find it on their tube map.

Precisely. Can you still easily find a London Connexions map (mine is
from 1996)? I didn't really look when I was in London last May.

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