Visiting London (places to visit?)

[Sogdian]

Greetings comrades,

Sorry for off topic, but I need your help. Next week I am stopping in London for a day and a half... so decided to have a quick tour. I have never been to London before, but can imagine how big it is. So, I need some help about places to visit... I can think of only two places, Marx's grave and British Museum. Where else do you think a student of Marx should visit in London? :)

[Q]

The national and international (whichever applicable) offices of the 57 variants of communism.

[MarxSchmarx]

British museum, check out the library where Das kapital was written. Marx's grave can be a pain to get to and is kind of inconvenient. It will be cold and raining and so you might want to take a taxi there, as there are a few narrow streets along the way from the tube station.

[Tablo]

London is a very interesting to place to visit. I went there a few years ago. I don't recommend the typical tourist attractions as they tend to be rather boring and have long lines.

[El Rojo]

if your passing by, the memorial to brit internationals killed during the spanish civil war is just by the millenium eye

[Sogdian]

London is a very interesting to place to visit. I went there a few years ago. I don't recommend the typical tourist attractions as they tend to be rather boring and have long lines.

Yeah I want to avoid typical attractions, in fact oppose everything that a city tourist stands for, like taking pictures of everything possible (especially inside that london telephone box or next to that postbox or to that london guards dagh!), buying overpriced "made in china" plastic double decker bus souvenirs or my son bought me this t-shirt from london thing (oh hate that!), queueing long lines, walking around with big open mouth and not giving a toss about anything/body around, especially locals who'd probably shoot you if they could :lol: and why would anyone want to take picture in front of that london clock *can't get it, and who the hell are those crowded people who stand there in front of that mofo queen's palace and wait to watch that guard change?!. Scary zombies haha

anyway, thanks for the advices, i shall definitely look at the library and pay tribute to those who fought in the spanish civil war...

[Revolutionary Pseudonym]

Unless there is anything specific that you want to see in the British Museum I wouldnt really recomend as it's packed (unless you go late, which is ok if you're staying in London, but if you're staying outside then you'll miss the trains and you'll never see it all in a day. But the British Museum is good if you have longer, eg. a week or so.
I'd recomend the art galleries like the Tate and the National Gallery if that's your kinda thing.
There are some great parks in London too. Also the Science Museum and the Natural History Museum are good and you could easily do them in a day. Not very political, but still very good.

EDIT: The British Library is also very good and I believe they do have some original political and religious stuff which is very interesting, some of it is free but there are bits that you have to pay for but I think it is pretty cheap.

[Sasha]

the imperial war (nevermind the name) museum is actualy very good.

[Sogdian]

Unless there is anything specific that you want to see in the British Museum I wouldnt really recomend as it's packed (unless you go late, which is ok if you're staying in London, but if you're staying outside then you'll miss the trains and you'll never see it all in a day. But the British Museum is good if you have longer, eg. a week or so.
I'd recomend the art galleries like the Tate and the National Gallery if that's your kinda thing.
There are some great parks in London too. Also the Science Museum and the National History Museum are good and you could easily do them in a day. Not very political, but still very good.

thanks i'll have a look online whether they are close by since i'd love to visit both science and history museums, even though it could be dangerously too much info. for my brain cells to absorb in a day :P

[bricolage]

Tate Modern, Thames Barrier, Neasden Hindu Temple, Old Medical Theatre at London Bridge, Primrose Hill, Brick Lane (when it's not busy), Spitafields Market, if there is one going when you are there; http://www.eastendwalks.co.uk

The big parks are all nice, even if they can be a bit busy.

There's loads more that I can't think of at the moment.

[Dr Mindbender]

Where else do you think a student of Marx should visit in London? :)
The motorway out of it.

I fucking hate London.

[danielson]

Regents Canal is a must.

[Sasha]

if you go for an pint, visit the admiral duncan (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Admiral_Duncan_pub).
also the mural in cablestreet is nice too

[bricolage]

Oh yeah for drinking look for Sam Smiths pubs, they are dotted around London, are really nice and are the cheapest pints you'll be able to get in town.

[TheCultofAbeLincoln]

A Londons Tourist Guide should be stickied.

Call it, Everything to do in cold wet dreary cities, and we'll include Seattle on the same thread (and maybe NYC but it's too mugy and hot some parts of the year).

We'll have another called Everything to do in hot smoggy congested cities and cover LA, Mexico City, and Rio in that one.

[Tablo]

Yeah I want to avoid typical attractions, in fact oppose everything that a city tourist stands for, like taking pictures of everything possible (especially inside that london telephone box or next to that postbox or to that london guards dagh!), buying overpriced "made in china" plastic double decker bus souvenirs or my son bought me this t-shirt from london thing (oh hate that!), queueing long lines, walking around with big open mouth and not giving a toss about anything/body around, especially locals who'd probably shoot you if they could :lol: and why would anyone want to take picture in front of that london clock *can't get it, and who the hell are those crowded people who stand there in front of that mofo queen's palace and wait to watch that guard change?!. Scary zombies haha

anyway, thanks for the advices, i shall definitely look at the library and pay tribute to those who fought in the spanish civil war...
Yep. When my family went my parents insisted on doing pretty much all of that. It was awful. I really can't understand it at all. I wanted to kill myself when we went to wait in line for the stupid palace. The second I stepped in I wanted to burn it down(not seriously) upon seeing how fucking luxurious it was.

[Sasha]

Call it, Everything to do in cold wet dreary cities, and we'll include Seattle on the same thread.

dont forget about amsterdam, if we dont pump we drown...

[ZeroNowhere]

I imagine that as one penetrated out from some enormous forest of the tropics, the wild beasts would become fewer, the gloom would lighten, and the horror of the place would slowly lift. Yet as one emerges nearer to the edge of London, and nearer to the beautiful influence of the hills, the houses become uglier, the streets viler, the gloom deepens, the errors of civilisation stand bare to the scorn of the fields.

Where ugliness reaches the height of its luxuriance, in the dense misery of the place, where one imagines the builder saying, "Here I culminate. Let us give thanks to Satan," there is a bridge of yellow brick, and through it, as through some gate of filigree silver opening on fairyland, one passes into the country.

To left and right, as far as one can see, stretches that monstrous city; before one are the fields like an old, old song.

There is a field there that is full of king-cups. A stream runs through it, and along the stream is a little wood of osiers. There I used often to rest at the streams edge before my long journey to the hills.
-Edward J. M. D. Plunkett.