should have done this sooner.
I have never been so relaxed
should have done this sooner.
I have never been so relaxed
Are you at the Hilton? It's always depressing there. Awards ceremony? You spend all evening with the knowledge that the organisers were too cheap to cough for the Grosvenor. And the rooms at the Hilton are pretty squalid.
One cannot, however, reiterate often enough that London is by far the greatest city on earth, despite the best endeavours of the midget mayor.
One wonders what it is about it for you that defines it as a '****hole'? Is it the wonderful parks? The glorious architecture? The best food selection of any city, anywhere? The world's finest shopping opprtunities? Is it the unrivalled choice of theatres, museums and art galleries to which you object? Is it the pomp and ceremony of our imperial past, still proudly on display? Perhaps you dislike the good humour, good manners and good grace of the vast bulk of the population? Explain yourself.
zone 1 is nice and bits of zone 2, then it's pretty rubbish.
and no matter what people tell me or try to convince Shoreditch is not cool.
There are many hidden gems in Greater London - especially parkland. Did you know that it is possible to walk from the countryside out beyond Barnet all the way to Hampstead Heath almost entirely through river valley, woods and parkland? You can do something similar on the Capital Ring - a 78 mile walk around London between four (Stoke Newington) and ten (Hendon) miles from the centre - again largely through green open space.
Even somewhere as essentially unlovely as post-industrial Silvertown in East London has a uniquely lovely little park and the spectacle of the Royal Docks. Or poor, dumpy Brentford - with its two museums, two grand old houses including a 17th century manor, a fine park, a canal, the River Brent, a curious old waterside industrial area on the mighty Thames itself and the golden mile of Art Deco factories on the A4.