London's famous London

a few of my favourite (non-bike related) bits of london:



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Quote Originally Posted by picco
*cheap
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if you think that london is cheap try living anywhere else in the world other than japan! london is so expensive, anywhere in europe is 10%s cheaper, especially berlin.

Berlin is sooooo cheap... Makes me sick... London is NOT cheap... FYI, Mr picco...

Irony fail^^ DJ and TS

I'm assuming neither of you have met picco, or you'd know that there isn't an unsarcastic bone in his body.

provincialist... Awe at the fact that their snot has suddenly turned black.

lol.

Ahmen to those bridges in the twilight. gets me every time.

i also get a huge energy rush ridding around the city at night. the roads are yours, the skyscape changes, it's warm and the on clear nights the views are amazing. you also see a whole other life, early starters, late night partiers, tube cleaners. newsmen. tramps settling in. the works.

And our parks are great, small but thats all you need when you just discover them!

Give Brissul a few months PJ. the university gives it a good does of new life but every now and again it slips into small minded small town like Taunton, Banbury, Staines etc

Originally Posted by danger joel
if you think that london is cheap try living anywhere else in the world other than japan! london is so expensive, anywhere in europe is 10%s cheaper, especially berlin.

London can be as cheap or as expensive as you want it to be.

if you think that london is cheap try living anywhere else in the world other than japan! london is so expensive, anywhere in europe is 10%s cheaper, especially berlin.

like any big city it all depends on where you shop, i just came back from italy where i paid appox £1.10 for an apple in a local supermarket, it doesn't even cost that much in harrods!

loving the visuals tomasito.
I now want to go and see/visit all of those locations I don't recognise.

I paid appox £1.10 for an apple in a local supermarket, it doesn't even cost that much in harrods!

Like you'd know...
;-D

Quote Originally Posted by picco
*cheap
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Irony fail^^ DJ and TS

I'm assuming neither of you have met picco, or you'd know that there isn't an unsarcastic bone in his body.

I've never had the pleasure, sounds like my kinda guy...

loving the visuals tomasito.
I now want to go and see/visit all of those locations I don't recognise.

Your I love London post made me feel bad for baggin' out my hometown... And a little dewey-eyed... Damn you, Blackfoot! ;]

Your I love London post made me feel bad for baggin' out my hometown... And a little dewey-eyed... Damn you, Blackfoot! ;]

yeah but he was probably off his head on codeine when he wrote that ;)

I'm kidding, I loved your paean to London corny.

ahhh mr slain, every so often you just need to remember what makes london so special, differs for different people, but its a big fucking place and its got something for everyone, as I've said all my life, the older I get, the more money I make, the closer into the center of town I'm moving.
Penthouse apartment, roof garden and terrace anyone, I've got twenty of her majesty's notes in my hand if you do...
;-)

Andrew have you seen the people with the roof terrace that overlooks the Oval cricket ground? If I won the lottery, I would buy them out and happily retire from life every summer until I die!

I like London because it's big; I have a busy work life, I have a busy social life, and no matter what mood I am in there is something to do. It's still sometimes nice to escape to Cambridge though.

London, thousands of years of history stacked up from the river outwards. Millions of stories to be read on the corners of the streets, gently teased out of the fabric of the landscape. Adventures, innovation, industry, excitement, joy, tragedy, romance, fantasy, amazement and wonder can be found at any turn. Best of all though, it's as easy to leave your own mark as it is to leave none at all. Sure London can exact a high price as you pass through, but the payoff can be beyond belief.

You should read this - if you haven't already...

used to go to school at archbishop tennisons across the road, before they built the new stand you used to be able to stand on the roof of the school and watch the cricket from there, and being so close we actually had cricket nets on the roof, and I used to play when was a young 'un, hours standing in the field waiting for someone to bat towards me has formed an immutable core of disinterest in cricket for me now...
but penthouses are the shizzle, get a telescope and go all rear window...

Like you'd know...
;-D

hater ;)

Hehehe... My old band used to rehearse on the top floor in the squat at Oval Mansions when we started, particularly good fun during a test match... Fuzz bass, fuzz guitar, fuzz drum machine and screaming vocals through a fully distorted amp with the window wide open... Hehehe... Brilliant fun, used to piss the cricket fans off I can tell ya! :D

You should read this - if you haven't already...

my girlfriend has been reading that book for as long as i can remember. it's huge.
there must be at least two forests woth of trees in each copy.
my brain would turn inside-out if i tried to read that.

^ Give it a go - you won't regret it, despite its size it's very readable.

ahhh mr slain, every so often you just need to remember what makes london so special, differs for different people, but its a big fucking place and its got something for everyone, as I've said all my life, the older I get, the more money I make, the closer into the center of town I'm moving.
Penthouse apartment, roof garden and terrace anyone, I've got twenty of her majesty's notes in my hand if you do...
;-)

Exactly my plan. Fuck moving out to the country. It's noisy and smelly there too.

That's been my bathroom book since about Christmas, not the lightest of reads, but worth it non the less. I love London, I was born here and apart from a few mistaken attempts to live in the provinces / countryside, I always end up coming back. Skoota was right, any of those bridge crossings at dusk or dawn makes up for the dirt.

the sewers. trust me if you have been in one you would understand, one of the most magnificent achievments of architecture

but penthouses are the shizzle, get a telescope and go all rear window...

I'm loving the new "doped up corny" on the forum.

The shizzle indeed.

RPM... it's worth repeating.. :D

The countryside is made of mud, it stinks and you have to drive everywhere. It's inhabitants are ignorant, racist and stupid. Criminals roam unhindered by the Police who are corrupt and mercenary. Lack of public amenities and culture make the country dwellers indolent and apathetic, intellectual activity is discouraged, as is exercise. In-breeding is common and encouraged, as is violent and abusive public behaviour.

People say London town is dirty, but I don't get mud on my shoes in Bond St.