Suggestions welcome for a possible trip to London (England)

[SCRawl]

My flight leaves in about five hours. If anyone wants me to bring something from Canada, they'd better speak soon

[Eternal_Freedom]

If i was going to be in London I'd ask for some duty-free cigarettes and booze, but alas I'm in Wales.

[madd0ct0r]

holy fuck. I WILL be in london Mon-Wed

[SCRawl]

Small world. Barring being called upon to do some work remotely, I'm planning on going into town Monday to check out the museum.

[SCRawl]

I gave the British Museum a very thorough browsing today. Took a few hours, but after walking (in the manner similar to how a drunk would navigate, I think) from Paddington Station to the museum I was already getting a little footsore. Walking back (using a much more economical path) didn't help; if my trip to NYC a few years ago taught me anything it's that anything more than a moderate amount of walking hurts. I will therefore be taking it easy for a while.

I'm still hoping to have a free day Friday for more sightseeing, so I'm thinking that that will be more outdoor stuff. And I'll use the subway, methinks.

[Eternal_Freedom]

If you take the tube, make sure you've got a bottle of water. Some of the lines have newer trains with air conditioning and so on but not all of them.

[SCRawl]

That's one thing I found about the Museum: a great deal of it is quite warm. Only a couple of areas are air conditioned, as far as I can tell, and with the warm weather like this it gets a little uncomfortable.

Tomorrow the course starts, and I'll probably start the day with the "traditional English breakfast". Possibly even kippers.

[SCRawl]

Kippers for breakfast. A small, oily, fried fish, sitting in my stomach all morning, getting its revenge one little burp at a time.

Anyway, with the course over yesterday, I went to London again today. Saw the Imperial War Museum (including a pretty good WWI display, and their Holocaust display, which was kind of a downer way to spend an afternoon), and yes, I paid my fiver (as I did for the British Museum). I must have walked over 30km, and my feet are not happy, but I checked quite a large number of tourist boxes: Parliament bulidings, Big Ben, Buckingham Palace, Trafalgar Square, St. Paul's cathedral, Westminster Abbey, Millennium Bridge, Baker Street (see "Holmes, Sherlock"), and walked along the Thames for quite a ways. For all that, though, I'll still be very glad to be leaving tomorrow.