Thanks for all the suggestions. We did the trip last weekend.
In the end we did The Cutty Sark and Royal Observatory using the River Boat (that I never knew existed so extra thanks for that) from HMS Belfast to get there.
But next time I must check the calender before we go. It was Chinese New Year so Sunday was a free display about 2 minutes walk from the hotel.
Now I am really annoyed:-) The hotel room had more USB charging points in it than I have in my house.
What crime did you commit for having to stay in the shithole of London?
You went to London and didn't get stabbed? Lightweight.
Cheers
He's a bit too old and the wrong colour ;-)
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And doesn't peddle (or pedal?) drugs from a moped?
It's nice to go there now and again and do something different instead of going to Filey.
Plus you always have the pleasure, when you get back home, of realising how nice it is not to live in London.
She now wants to go to Lincoln for the next weekend away.
Well, if you are lucky and she wants to go shopping (or to the cathedral), you can go here:
Given you've likely seen about 0.0001% of it on your visit, well judged.
How does she pick them?
Lincoln would be a good place for a weekend, there's quite a lot to see and some good places to eat and drink. I spent many years there but I don't think they've put a plaque on my old house yet ;-)
I have seen more than 0.0001% of London.
As for choosing Lincoln it's because I went there on a Sunday to sort out a small job, she came with me and we had an hour in the centre before I went and did the job. She wants to go again.
That's already arranged. I'll be going with Terry Casey.
Indeed!
I've worked there, can't remember if it nice or not. Hang on, my two brain cells have just collided. I stopped in a Travelodge there some years ago and watched some young people sat on the banks of a river chatting. One lad had his dog with him. He thought the world of his dog and the dog loved him to bits. It was just nice to watch. Why not have a weekend in Blackpool?
List the attractions.
Nowt wrong with Filey. One Yorkshireman I know promised if he won the lottery he'd treat the village to a holiday there. All together in a caravan during the following June
Bleakpool, is okay for a good piss up, drinking piss and getting into a fight. Morecambe, wonderful views over the sea, and that is about it.
That's Whitley Bay.
It's got 10 pubs.
The place the Posh Geordies live ;-)
Going home.
And a varied route to Greenwich.
Started at Euston Station, walked down Tottenham Court Road, breakfast at The Court, would have jumped onto the Tube at Goodge Street but it was Exit only due to maintenance works, so walked further down, along Old Crompton St and down Burlington Arcade (no price tags on the watches and shoes they sell), past the Ritz (where we had a laugh at their breakfast prices), Tube from Green Park to Tower Bridge, River Boat to Surrey Quays, bus to Greenwich (to show her Deptford which is where I had digs when I was working in Vauxhall).
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