Brighton is a dive...bit outside Laaandan anyway...
Havent seen a London thread,im looking at mid-week Carling Cup games for late Aug. QPR West Ham and Brighton(im flying to Gatwick) are playing at home.What else is there to do different?Ive been to London and ive done the tourist things before.Im looking for something different eg.theme parks,different sporting events and any suggestions welcome
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Brighton is a dive...bit outside Laaandan anyway...
Brighton's about the same distance from Gatwick as London is. You'd have to go to one or the other(Brighton or London) really unless ya want to spend a fair bit on public transport.
As for theme parks around London, Chessington(12miles from London) and Thorpe Park(20 miles), none in centre of London but I'd say transport would take you there handy enough. There's a legoland in Windsor too I think, more for young kids afaik.
Last edited by sligoman; 18/08/2008 at 11:48 AM.
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Ya its one or the other,not going for long
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Brighton's great, a really nice seaside town with good bars & places to eat/go out, it's been a couple of years since I was there but Kemp Town was a nice part of town
www.visitbrighton.com will give you plenty of ideas.
If you're keen to go to some sports then go to London, from Gatwick you should get the train to Victoria, there's normally some deals availible for rooms, try laterooms or lastminute.com I usually manage to get a deal of some kind.
Once in London there's the usual array of football grounds or for Rugby if you happen to be there for the weekend you could try Harlequins at the Stoop or Saracens at Watford (Season doesn't start until September 6th and there is the annual double header at Twickenham involving London Irish v Wasps & Quins v Saracens)
Otherwise Wimbledon Dogs is a good night out, Windosr has racing on a Monday night during the Summer months, other tracks local to London are Ascot, Epsom, Lingfield & Sandown Park.
As a wild stab in the dark if you are interested the Cricket season is coming to a climax, England play 2 x One dayers against the Proteas at the end of August but tickets may be hard to come by.
Last stab in the dark, the Tour of Britain road race starts in London on the 7th of September, it's no Tour de France though.
Unfortunate choice of phrase with all the stabbings happening here at the moment. I reckon you should head over to the dog racing at Walthamstow. The stadium is closing down very soon, a chance to see it for the only time. the town itself is a dive though and the stadium is the only thing going for it.
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I'm a bloke,I'm an ocker
And I really love your knockers,I'm a labourer by day,
I **** up all me pay,Watching footy on TV,
Just feed me more VB,Just pour my beer,And get my smokes, And go away
'Fascists dress in black and go round telling people what to do, where as priests.....'
Any suggestions on anything to do Mon-Wed?
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