Bridge over the Thames
by MarvintheMartian
Along from the London Eye is this Bridge which runs along side a railway track.
There are various bridges which you can walk along to cross the Thames, this one takes you between the South Bank at the Royal Festival Hall and Embankment Tube Station (Charring Cross Station is just up from Embankment).
Read Time out!
by marisa81
Read 'time out" the what's what of London magazine, it is sold at most newspaper stands and grocery stores, and tells you everything you can do in London. Scour this magazine well, there are lots of deals you can find in there, like free club passes, etc. While reading 'time out" i noticed an add and sent away for free tickets to a comdey club, these tickets would have normally cost 15 pounds at least, and we had a great night out for free.
Everything Old is New again
by pedersdottir
Carnaby Street. Calls to mind the Swinging Sixties. Mary Quant. Big eye makeup and bobbed hair.
For three decades the look was out of fashion and out of mind. On Carnaby Street it has re-emerged with a passion. Miniskirts and fishnet stockings. Vinyl slickers and Cleopatra eyes. Psychodelic colors.
Along with the fashion scene there has been a renovation and refitting of local buildings. It is worth a visit, if only for the nostalgia of it all.
Carnaby Street is between the London Palladium and Piccadilly Circus, off Regent Street.
Check out MADAME TUSSAUD'S: A...
by Sharrie
Check out MADAME TUSSAUD'S: A very popular wax museum founded in 1835 by Madame Tussaud who created her first wax figures at 17 in Paris.
Look for your favorite idols in the exhibition. Life size models, including important historical figures are exhibited.
And here I was thinking we spoke the same language
by Dabs
Although one of the pluses of visiting London is that Americans and British share the same language, there are quite a few words and phrases that have different meanings depending on which side of the pond you are on
chips US-a snack that comes in a bag, UK-what we call French fries
jumper US-someone taking a leap off a building, UK-sweater
football-US-sport that the Chicago Bears play, UK-soccer (which inexplicably has not caught on in the US)
dear-US-something you'd call your sweetheart UK-expensive
biscuit-US-biscuits and gravy UK-cookie
bonnet-US something you wear on your head, UK-hood of the car
Cheerio US-cereal UK-goodbye
The attached picture is of a bar that I saw somewhere near Holborn, I had a really good laugh when I saw that it was named Bunghole, in the US it is a slang word for anus but a bunghole in England is the hole bored into a wooden barrel that would hold beer or wine
Well, I think you get the picture, you catch on after a while