12-02-2003 22:00									#1
	Must one be crazy to go to London in February? Get a bigger avatar today!

I've just learned that round-trip air fares from Los Angeles to London have fallen below $200!

The catch is, you have to go there in February. This naturally leads to the question--is its insane to vacation in London in February?

	12-02-2003 22:01									#2
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Not really. The weather here isn't that bad at the moment and most of the touristy things you can see in any weather.

You aren't guaranteed sun if you come in August.

Although if you are from California you might find it intolerably cold and wet.

	12-02-2003 22:10									#3
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You might get run over by a tank at heathrow...

	12-02-2003 22:12									#4
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Cheap airtravel has been common in Europe for the past few years. It takes a bit of planning but if you do it right, you can fly virtually anywhere for less than the cost of the taxi ride to the airport. My family was recently looking at plane prices for a trip abroad. £20 (US$35) from London to Rome. You pay for it in lack of inflight service, food, movies, and creature comforts but damn it's cheap.

	12-02-2003 22:16									#5
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So who will put me up for a few nights if I come to London for a long weekend at the end of the month? Anyone? Anyone?

	12-02-2003 22:17									#6
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starchild, who needs the creature comforts when youre pissed drunk?

	12-02-2003 22:20									#7
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I would Boris, except that I'm not in London, am busy that weekend, and you'd have to sleep under my desk.

	12-02-2003 22:25									#8
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quote: Originally posted by Starchild I would Boris, except that I'm not in London, am busy that weekend, and you'd have to sleep under my desk.

I've been to London so can see different things, I know you would change plans for me, and I'm sure sleeping arrangements could be negotiable.

	12-02-2003 22:28									#9
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I sleep in boxers and a tshirt. You sleep in leather chaps with a collar round your neck. You don't technically sleep in the bed but in a small nest of blankets on the floor by my feet. No snoring, no waking up before me yet I expect a cup of hot tea when I wake up.

okaies?

	12-02-2003 22:29									#10
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Sounds rather like a typical weekend morning.

	12-02-2003 22:42									#11
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From a trip to London to Boris wearing a leather collar...well, it didn't take long to pull off that thread jacking, did it?

	12-02-2003 22:43									#12
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I'm going to London in March. What should I see that most people don't think of?

	12-02-2003 22:45									#13
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Most people don't think of seeing the sun in London at that time.

	12-02-2003 22:54									#15
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quote: Originally posted by Oerdin Most people don't think of seeing the sun in London at that time.

I'm one of those people who controls the weather. If I pack an umbrella, coat, and heavy clothes, it will generate a heatwave that will make everyone believe in global warming. If I take t-shirts there will be a foot of snow. So I guess just decide what kind of weather you want and let me know, and I'll be sure to pack the opposite.

	13-02-2003 03:15									#16
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I'm off down to London this month...

	13-02-2003 03:29									#17
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It's not insane ... as long as you expect it to be grey and wet.
That doesn't matter, though, it's not like you would come here for the miles of perfect sandy beaches anyway.
Big Ben and Buckingham Palace look the same in February as they do in August.

Come on over!

	13-02-2003 04:38									#18
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London is boring. Although I may only think that because I lived in cental London for three years - walking past Buckingham Palace and seeing Big Ben on a daily basis kind of removes their appeal.

	13-02-2003 05:54									#19
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quote: Originally posted by Big Crunch London is boring. Although I may only think that because I lived in cental London for three years - walking past Buckingham Palace and seeing Big Ben on a daily basis kind of removes their appeal.

Big deal. I worked overlooking Buckingham Palace and part of my job was going to places such as Westminster Cathedral, All Saints Church, Madame Tussauds, Hyde Park, Soho Square, Pall Mall- and various heritage buildings dotted around the City of Westminster, and I was never bored. When one is tired of London, one is tired of life...

In February one could go to any number of plays at the Royal National Theatre, or the Barbican, to the Dulwich Picture Gallery, to Tate Modern, to the Natural History Museum, to Whitechapel for a 'Jack the Ripper' walking tour, followed by a toothsome Bengali meal in Banglatown in Brick Lane. Or visit Camden Market (if you really want to be a tourist), or Exmouth Market, or visit Skoob Books in Sicilian Avenue, or see the Jean Cocteau murals in the Eglise Francaise just off Leicester Square, 'do' the Gay Village in Soho, browse any number of excellent charity shops wherein fabulous bargains may be found (an antique Japanese print of a samurai on horseback- 4.99 sterling), take a walking tour of the Great Fire of London sites, and climb the steps of the monument, inspect the bascules of Tower Bridge, go to Dr. Johnson's house, the Hogarth Museum, Dickens's house in Doughty Street, take in a lecture at the I.C.A. , go to a boxing match, have a steak at the Quality Chop House, and so on and so on....

	13-02-2003 06:13									#20
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quote: Originally posted by molly bloom the Dulwich Picture Gallery

Now that sounds exciting.

	13-02-2003 06:27									#21
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quote: Originally posted by Boris Godunov Now that sounds exciting.

Excitement is in the mind of the beholder- if you happen to like the work of the Dutch Golden Age painters then yes, you will find it exciting. I find Pieter de Hooch's work exciting. Perhaps a trip to Compton's might satisfy you- or Expectations, or Regulation.

You'll find litotes is a characteristically British trope- the Dulwich Picture Gallery doesn't need to advertise itself as the Multimedia Extravangza Mega-moolah Experience.

Or as Disney 'world', for that matter.

	13-02-2003 06:30									#22
	Re: Must one be crazy to go to London in February? Got spare money?

No. But it sure helps.