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| posted by asiangirl 260 days ago |
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now y'all got me excited to see london and all the *ahem* thrills it has to offer...i'll be noshing and sploshing my way into that city fer sure...
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| posted by Paps of Jura 260 days ago |
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Noshing mauahahahahahahahah.... Lads in the UK love a bit of noshing !!
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| posted by The Cerne Abbas Giant 260 days ago |
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Originally posted by Paps of Jura
Noshing mauahahahahahahahah.... Lads in the UK love a bit of noshing !!
It's all that keeps their women quiet!!!
Watchu talkin' about Willis?
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| posted by asiangirl 260 days ago |
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*sigh* took you guys long enuf to notice that... was waiting for someone to comment about the status of hotties there- afterall, one needs to keep warm when its 6C
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| posted by asiangirl 260 days ago |
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seriously though, 70% of my trip is all about work, the rest i'll reserve for the London Eye (a must) Harrods, and some flea markets along the way...and ofcourse, as with other trip I take- I always get lost one way or another- and hopefully London will be a place where getting lost would be a lurverly experience
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| posted by EmilyBronte 260 days ago |
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Originally posted by asiangirl
*sigh* took you guys long enuf to notice that... was waiting for someone to comment about the status of hotties there- afterall, one needs to keep warm when its 6C
Its currently -1C in london. hehe.
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| posted by asiangirl 260 days ago |
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that's just freakin' peachy...i'll be the girl walking around london like a penguin because i'll be too bundled up to move
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| posted by Randy_Clapp 260 days ago |
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Definitely do a "Big Bus Tour". They come along every 10-15 minutes and you can hop off and jump back on at the verious tourist destinations as they take your fancy. Tickets last for a whole day, and one lap usually takes about 2 hours depending on traffic. It's worth considering doing an entire lap first to decide what sites you'd like to take a closer look at and then jump off accordingly during the 2nd lap.
http://www.bigbus.co.uk/
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| posted by jesswill 260 days ago (edited 260 days ago) |
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Ooh someone else coming to London! When will you be there and where will you be staying? Let me know and we can go get a drink.
Lola and Ben, what did you think of that Soho pub I took you to that does it's own lager? I know some good place for sausage & mash as well.
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| posted by Juno Watt 260 days ago |
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Have you tried pie and eels yet, Jess?
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| posted by jesswill 260 days ago |
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Pie and eels?? Is that a HK speciality? I don't remember seing eels on a lot of menus in the UK.
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| posted by jesswill 260 days ago |
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Ohhh Ale... sorry headache, not well etc.
Not recently no.
Btw way when are you coming over Juno?
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| posted by smog 260 days ago |
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When is who coming over Juno?
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| posted by CQFD 260 days ago |
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Originally posted by EmilyBronte
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Originally posted by The Cerne Abbas Giant
Why would you drink Yorkshire beer in a London Pub? 
So if you go to London, you can only eat and drink London stuff? Do you have to talk like a Londoner too? total rubbish.
I meant , actually, anywhere in the UK, the whole country is big enough and fab enough to choose from.
Agreed, why go to England when Scotland is close by?
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| posted by smog 260 days ago (edited 260 days ago) |
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Jellied eels:
And an article (albeit from 1989) about c**kney cuisine:
http://query.nytimes.com/gst/fullpage.html?res=9C0CE7DB143CF934A25751C1A96F948260&pagewanted=1
And a more recent article guiding you to the real thing (or the haute cuisine version):
http://www.thisislondon.co.uk/restaurants/article-23412855-details/Geezer+grub+reinvented/article.do
My first ever boss was an Italian c**kney: probably the best boss I ever had. And he introduced me to pie & mash (with liquor), and to the delights of Browns and the Lord Nelson...
http://www.browns-griffin.co.uk/browns/welcome.php
(the Lord Nelson (where my brother first met his wife - no she wasn't performing, it was just a convenient place for a group to meet up en route to an Elton John/Eric Clapton gig at Wembley stadium) seems to be no more)
Key lessons included:
- c**k-ups are proportional to output
- if you get to three pints (of real ale) at lunchtime then don't go back to the office: work out an excuse in the morning
- never wear a silk tie if you are standing in front of the stage at Browns
(and, yes, before anyone says it, the girls were, and are apparently, pretty skanky)
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| posted by The Cerne Abbas Giant 260 days ago |
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quote:
Originally posted by EmilyBronte
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Originally posted by The Cerne Abbas Giant
Why would you drink Yorkshire beer in a London Pub?
So if you go to London, you can only eat and drink London stuff? Do you have to talk like a Londoner too? total rubbish.
Well, ale often doesn't travel very well. Theakston's in London rarely gets the TLC it deserves. Fuller's quality is pretty much guarnteed in West London.
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| posted by smog 260 days ago (edited 260 days ago) |
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Indeed - one of the very few things I miss about the UK these days is a pint of Pride hand pulled on a summer's evening with a jerk pork after a game of cricket in the park...
(courtesy of a completely different Lord Nelson pub in Brentford/South Ealing)
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| posted by jesswill 260 days ago |
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When is who coming over Juno?
Well Juno goes to London once in a while I was therefore asking whether he was planning to come over in the near future
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| posted by smog 260 days ago (edited 260 days ago) |
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Whooooooooosh!
(m'excuse jesswill - tu as fait un double entendre (par accident peut-etre) que j'ai developpe)
(And sorry for the Franglais)
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