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This Saturday, I'll be in London with no schedule. Help me figure out what to do.

Background:

-I've hit some of the highlights in the past: Tower, Eye, British Museum, Natural History Museum, Science Museum.

-England plays Slovenia, so no Premiere League or Championship games on Saturday. I think 2nd division is the highest level playing.

-I'm married but away from my family for business.

-Allergic to alcohol, so no drinking.

-I'm more of museum and history guy than a dance club or theater guy.

-I like walking around the city.

What have you got for me?

 
Imperial War Museum hands down. Especially if you like WW2 history. Just an awesome WW1 and WW2 museum. They have a tiger tank, v1 and v2 rockets and lots of other cool historic things from the war. They have churchills bunker as it was during the war.

I really really enjoyed this place. Let us know what you ended up doing. I'm jealous.

 
This Saturday, I'll be in London with no schedule. Help me figure out what to do.

Background:

-I've hit some of the highlights in the past: Tower, Eye, British Museum, Natural History Museum, Science Museum.

-England plays Slovenia, so no Premiere League or Championship games on Saturday. I think 2nd division is the highest level playing.

-I'm married but away from my family for business.

-Allergic to alcohol, so no drinking.

-I'm more of museum and history guy than a dance club or theater guy.

-I like walking around the city.

What have you got for me?
British Library or the Churchill War Rooms.

 
Museum during the day and a play at night. The War Museum is a good choice if that's what you're into. The V&A is pretty awesome as well. My choice for most underrated museum is the National Portrait Gallery. It's exclusively portraits, mostly of Brits, covering 700 years of the famous, infamous and unknown.

 
Okay, Imperial War Museum sounds like a strong choice. I've read a few WW1/2 books (Keegan, Ambrose, Beevor, etc.) and my son is doing major year-long reports on WW2 over the next two years, so this sounds perfect.

I also see on the map Britain at War Experience...anyone know if that's any good?

 
Also, I don't enjoy eating alone at a nice restaurant... Any good suggestions for quick food? A noodle house or some walking food would be ideal if anyone has suggestions. I'm staying near Heathrow so I'll be traversing the whole District line between the hotel and museum.

 
boots11234 said:
Imperial War Museum hands down. Especially if you like WW2 history. Just an awesome WW1 and WW2 museum. They have a tiger tank, v1 and v2 rockets and lots of other cool historic things from the war. They have churchills bunker as it was during the war.

I really really enjoyed this place. Let us know what you ended up doing. I'm jealous.
That's exactly what I was going to say.

 
I almost made it to London in time to get tickets to the USMNT game against Colombia at Fulham's stadium, but didn't manage it.

I went to the Imperial War Museum. It was very good - it's interesting to see the differences in outlook from us to our greatest ally, with them having suffered the Blitz. There was a bit about von Braun becoming a hero in the US due to the space program and the ethical issues with that.

The WWI exhibit was closed for most of the day, and when it opened it was swamped, so I didn't end up going.

London knows how to do museum food - just top-notch food available at every one of their museums I've been to.

The holocaust section was brutal, of course. They had a very interesting video on loop near the end with old holocaust survivors talking about how it affects their outlook today. I sat through the whole loop - it was something I haven't really heard before - everything I've seen previously focused only on the conditions at the time, not the long-term effects.

I ate at Wagamama for dinner, got that dish I linked above. It was actually pretty disappointing - the chicken seemed to have been made independent of the rest of the dish, and was dry and seasoned wrong for the dish. Had I known, I would have ordered it without the chicken.

Thanks for the guidance, FFA!

 
I had a few more free hours in London recently - I arrived at something like noon and only had to be in Ipswich by 6... but I had my luggage with me, so I just took the train to Ipswich and watched some porn in the hotel room. I suck.

How should I have handled the luggage? I thought about a locker at the airport (if those still exist), but Heathrow's enough out of the way in the wrong direction that I would've spent all my time on the subway.

 

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