Daily discussion thread: 🍩 Friday, May 17, 2024

London: Camden Town is a cool place if you're into markets and food. The usual spots in London (Tower Bridge, Trafalgar Square, The Mall, Buckingham Palace, Tower of London if you're into history). I enjoyed a low-key stroll through The National Gallery in London. Southbank is great for a walk too from Tower Bridge down towards Blackfriars or even Waterloo Bridge. Oh almost forgot.. Ye Olde Mitre pub. It's a tiny traditional 1547 real ale pub. I fell in love with hand pulled ales over there.

England: If you're in the south/the coast I preferred Eastbourne and Hastings to Brighton even though Brighton is the most famous. Also if you're after white cliffs, Eastbourne has more impressive ones than Dover even though the white cliffs of Dover are the more famous.

Scotland: Definitely try a nice sit-down meal of Haggis if you haven't had it before. I spent a bit of time in Edinburgh just unwinding and soaking it all in. Obviously the castle is a focus point. You can't really go wrong much there. Went to bingo at Meadowbank and that was great if you like bingo.

Wales: I only went to Cardiff and the main thing I went there for doesn't exist anymore (Doctor Who Experience). The streets and Cardiff Castle are lovely to see though.

Wanted to show a couple of photos from the cliffs near Eastbourne.. the first one gives you a bit of scale with the lighthouse. The second one was me demonstrating that there are absolutely no fences or safety measures of any kind.

My mum hates that second photo.

all Premier League stadium tours in London

hopefully Old Trafford as well

if you're keen to see a game - tickets to premier league games are expensive and hard to come by. if there are any FA cup games on, it can be a good way to see a premier league team play, tickets are cheaper and easier to come by in the early stages.

Cornwall

do a walk on the coast - can highly recommend Polperro

If you're driving to Cornwall because the train is expensive, you can take a lesser motorway for a free squiz at stone henge as you drive by. I was told by family near Exeter that Cornwall is pretty touristy and parking can be a nightmare in season, so maybe a tour bus?

The London museums and art galleries were free. May as well see all the cool shit they acquired from the world.

Have you read The Dark is Rising sequence? Lots of Cornwall and Wales things to go see.

Check out Edinburgh! I got recommended it and went in with low expectations but man it was the highlight of the trip. The Churchill war rooms were amazing too. Also get on the millionaires shortbread from m&s!

I'd keep an eye out for UK brands that get smashed with the Australia tax. Fashion, fragrance, alcohol etc.

all the museums , the globe theatre, have lunches in tea rooms or pubs , carnaby street, greenwich observatory, you can buy little books of walks to go on

Stone henge

Winchester

Tate Modern is just stunning, it's across the river from st pauls and it's next to the globe and the london museum

I reckon you have to try Greggs, especially their sausage rolls, so you can compare them to ours.

Also fish & chips for the same reason.

Watch out for "road men", which is apparently what they call eshays