Any American's Going to Glastonbury?

[Dorgon]

quite a few americans making the long journey over for glasto..

a guy called Dorgon is coming from Cali - i recall him asking about where he can leave baggage he brings with him that's valuable etc

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coming from america has gotta be pretty costly, but you'll have a wicked time:)

[Toilet Duck]

Hope you have a nice time in London. We tend to moan about the tube, but if you don't need to take it during commuter hours it's generally not as bad as you'd imagine. In zone 1 central though, as others have said, it's often quicker to walk and almost universally more pleasant!

Here's a cool map someone (I think at the Royal College of Art) made of Zone 1 area with minutes walk between stations..

Don't get hung up on the boring must-do stuff like Buckingham Palace... Or worse, really expensive tourist traps - things like Madam Tussauds or the Tower of London. Loads of stuff is free or reasonable, don't get conned! Here's a random list of fun stuff and alternative museums to do:

Wildlife Photographer of the Year exhibition at the Natural History Museum

Mousetrap (Theatre) - been running without interruption for 52 years

Alessi coffee and tea towers in Lincoln's Inn

Sotheby's have a wine tasting course on

Smithfield Meat Market, followed by brunch at Smiths of Smithfield

Turkish and Russian Baths at York Hall

Hampstead village then walk on Heath, ending up in Spaniards Inn pub.

DLR out to Greenwich, through the market, up to the dateline and Royal Observatory, then mainline train back to central.

Jack the Ripper walk around Aldgate

London Duck Tours It's crazy, embarrassing, but lots of fun! www.londonducktours.com

Visit to Parliament, including going inside Commons or House of Lords…

Chai Bazaar (Indian tea bar),

Yauatcha (Chinese tea bar)

Markets - Billingsgate Fish Market, Smithfields or Borough

The largest Hindu temple outside India, in Neasden, Shri Swaminarayan Mandhir

One of the many Comedy Clubs

MASH, Zero Degrees or Freedom Bars - they brew their own beer

Belgos - 300 beers plus mussels

Garlic and Shots restaurant in Soho - everything garlicy, even beer and puddings!

The "Monument" - climb up it and see views of city from top

Canal - take canal boat from Camden to Little Venice or vice versa. Little Venice is very pretty.

Riverside pubs at Richmond, and walk in Richmond Park.

Pineapple Dance Club - take a lesson in some form of dancing.. salsa or anything

Manor Park rock climbing club.. beginners lesson?

The Fat Duck http://www.fatduck.co.uk/ Sublime foodie stuff.. Three michelin stars. Out in Bray in Berkshire. Holy!

London Transport Museum

Shakespeare's Globe

Royal Botanic Gardens Kew

London Walks. Ripper Walk, The Westminster Nobody Knows sounds interesting, or Ghosts of the West End

Pizza Express Soho Jazz Basement Venue

Greenich Meantime Microbrewery

Hampton Court Palace

Strangers Gallery in Parliament

Bramah Tea and Coffee Museum

Sing-A-Long-A Sound of Music at Prince Charles cinema - even more fun dressed up as Nun or Nazi!

Weird restaurants like Archipelago - serving scorpions etc

Auction houses

Millennium footbridge and Tate Modern

Kyoto Garden in Holland Park

Disco Roast in Shoreditch

RollerSkating in Hyde Park

Dennis Severs’ House Tour

Folk and Blues at the Harrison, King's Cross

Kew Bridge Steam Museum with London's only working Steam Railway

Urban Golf in Soho - high tech golf simulation

East London Art Walk - guided around some of the newer galleries

Speakers Corner

Farmers' Markets

Bike Polo in Brick Lane - bring your bicycle, mallets are provided

Salty Beef Beigul in Brick Lane

Columbia Road Flower Market, plus oysters in the alley that connects Ezra Street and Shipton Street next to Jones’s equally inviting dairy store.

Sunday Knit Roast

Free Brazilian dance Forro lessons at Guanabara on Drury Lane

Boules in Cleaver Square in Kennington

Apsley House & Wellington Arch

Bank of England Museum

The British Dental Association Museum

Brunel Engine House

Cartoon Museum

Cabinet War Rooms and Churchill Museum

The Museum of Brands and Packaging

Horniman Museum

Freud Museum

Petrie Museum - Egyptian stuff

Garden Museum and Cafe

Crystal Palace Museum

Guildhall Clockmakers' Museum

Hunterian Museum

Kirkaldy Testing Museum

Leighton House

Library and Museum of Freemasonry

London Canal Museum

London Fire Brigade Museum

London Sewing Machine Museum

MCC Museum

Museum and Library of the Order of St John

Museum of Immigration and Diversity

Museum of London

Museum of Rugby

New London Architecture

Royal Academy of Music

Sherlock Holmes Museum

Sir John Soane’s Museum

Smythson Stationery Museum

Wellcome Institute

The Old Bailey for a trial

Wallace Collection

Hackney City Farm

Mudchute Farm

Tennis for Free

Harrods

British Library

Pure Groove record shop, EC1

Greenwich Meridien etc

Southwark Cathedral Audio Tour

Roundhouse in Camden

Wimbledon Stadium Greyhound Racing

Prince Charles Cinema

Windmill in Brixton for live music

New music and poetry on a boat for just £6 (£4 concs) at Yacht Club, Victoria Embankmemt

Vampire Walk in Highgate

And here are an approved starter list of pubs!!:

Carpenter's Arms. 12 Seymour Place, Marylebone, London, W1H 7NA. Map.

Mason's Arms, Seymour Place, W1H

Spaniard's Inn, at the top of Hamsptead Heath

Clifton Hotel, St John's Wood

George Inn, London Bridge

Queens Larder , 1 Queen Square, Bloomsbury, London, WC1N 3AR

Seven Stars, behind Royal Courts of Justice

Ye Olde Mitre , 1 Ely Court, Off Ely Place, Holborn, London, EC1N 6SJ

Enterprise, Walton Street

Old Tea Warehouse, 4-8 Creechurch Buildings, Creechurch Lane, Houndsditch, London, EC3A 5AJ

Ship , 11 Talbot Court, Monument, London, EC3V 0BP

Swan Tavern , Ship Tavern Passage, 77-80 Gracechurch Street, Monument, London, EC3V 1LY

Butchers Hook & Cleaver, 61-63 West Smithfield, Smithfield, London, EC1A 9DY

Cheshire Cheese , 5 Little Essex Street, Strand, London, WC2R 3LD

There are lots more...

[missyb75]

This is a great festival in West Palm Beach, Florida:

http://www.sunfest.com/music.php

Concert stages are on the beach and it never disappoints.

Ozzy has his OZFEST:

http://www.ozzfest.com/

Of course there is Coachella and Lollapolloza.

[Corinne1303]

An American here. I live in the UK though, have done for nearly 6 years now. I think you will have an amazing time at Glastonbury and it's great that you get to see some of London as well. Glastonbury for me was one of the defining moments of my first year in the UK, it really is something special (hence my annual pilgrimage). I'll be the one in red, white and blue with an American flag during Springsteen (tacky, I know).