rec.arts.theatre.musicals

"Stephen Farrow" <@> schreef in bericht
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> Matthew Winn wrote:
>> On Tue, 26 Feb 2008 17:31:58 +0000, tim@ (Tim Gowen)
>> wrote:
>>
>>> I'm not sure I know what Londoners do,
>>
>> Moan about anyone from out of town, mostly.
>>
>> One thing I'd suggest is that when travelling around central London
>> it's better to walk than take the tube. You can walk between most of
>> the stations in under five minutes anyway, and you see a lot more.
>> Even a journey like Euston to Victoria takes less than an hour on
>> foot, and it beats staring at grubby cast iron pipes from the inside.
>>
>
> Or at least take buses rather than the tube in central London - the bus
> system, these days, is far easier to use than it used to be, buses are
> generally very frequent in central London (many lines run every 4-8
> minutes), and they're rather faster since the introduction of the
> congestion charge.

But avoid Oxford street when traffic is heavy. Or hop off the bus and walk,
then hop on a bus again when you're at the end. (We stayed in the bus and it
took us more than half an hour to get from the Dominion Theatre to the other
end of Oxford Street)

Marinus