Must one be crazy to go to London in February?

[Clear Skies]

I'm off down to London this month...

[FrustratedPoet]

It's not insane ... as long as you expect it to be grey and wet.
That doesn't matter, though, it's not like you would come here for the miles of perfect sandy beaches anyway.
Big Ben and Buckingham Palace look the same in February as they do in August.

Come on over!

[Dauphin]

London is boring. Although I may only think that because I lived in cental London for three years - walking past Buckingham Palace and seeing Big Ben on a daily basis kind of removes their appeal.

[molly bloom]

Originally posted by Big Crunch
London is boring. Although I may only think that because I lived in cental London for three years - walking past Buckingham Palace and seeing Big Ben on a daily basis kind of removes their appeal.

Big deal. I worked overlooking Buckingham Palace and part of my job was going to places such as Westminster Cathedral, All Saints Church, Madame Tussauds, Hyde Park, Soho Square, Pall Mall- and various heritage buildings dotted around the City of Westminster, and I was never bored. When one is tired of London, one is tired of life...

In February one could go to any number of plays at the Royal National Theatre, or the Barbican, to the Dulwich Picture Gallery, to Tate Modern, to the Natural History Museum, to Whitechapel for a 'Jack the Ripper' walking tour, followed by a toothsome Bengali meal in Banglatown in Brick Lane. Or visit Camden Market (if you really want to be a tourist), or Exmouth Market, or visit Skoob Books in Sicilian Avenue, or see the Jean Cocteau murals in the Eglise Francaise just off Leicester Square, 'do' the Gay Village in Soho, browse any number of excellent charity shops wherein fabulous bargains may be found (an antique Japanese print of a samurai on horseback- 4.99 sterling), take a walking tour of the Great Fire of London sites, and climb the steps of the monument, inspect the bascules of Tower Bridge, go to Dr. Johnson's house, the Hogarth Museum, Dickens's house in Doughty Street, take in a lecture at the I.C.A. , go to a boxing match, have a steak at the Quality Chop House, and so on and so on....

[Boris Godunov]

Originally posted by molly bloom
the Dulwich Picture Gallery

Now that sounds exciting.

[molly bloom]

Originally posted by Boris Godunov


Now that sounds exciting.

Excitement is in the mind of the beholder- if you happen to like the work of the Dutch Golden Age painters then yes, you will find it exciting. I find Pieter de Hooch's work exciting. Perhaps a trip to Compton's might satisfy you- or Expectations, or Regulation.

You'll find litotes is a characteristically British trope- the Dulwich Picture Gallery doesn't need to advertise itself as the Multimedia Extravangza Mega-moolah Experience.

Or as Disney 'world', for that matter.

[DanS]

Re: Must one be crazy to go to London in February?

No. But it sure helps.