# What Would You Do As A Tourist in London? **URL:** \ **Category:** Cafe Society\ **Created:** [August 22, 2017, 10:20pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-would-you-do-as-a-tourist-in-london/794411 "2017-08-22T22:20:40Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 10\ **Page:** 7
**Author:** ![Gyrate](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/gyrate/32/3588_2.png) [@Gyrate](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Gyrate)\ **Post date:** [August 1, 2018, 5:06pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-would-you-do-as-a-tourist-in-london/794411/121 "2018-08-01T17:06:18Z")
By the way, if you want a cheap thrill there’s always the Emirates cable car between the O2 (Millennium Dome) and the Excel Centre. I mean, there’s no reason to go to the Excel Centre but it’s a diverting journey across the Thames and you can get the DLR from there into the City (or indeed the other way around, taking the DLR to Royal Victoria and getting the cable car over to the O2). You can also climb up the outside of the Dome (for something like £35) if you want something different, and there’s also a very long zipwire over by Lambeth Palace at the moment which I might partake of this summer. ---
**Author:** ![kaylasdad99](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/kaylasdad99/32/3398_2.png) [@kaylasdad99](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/kaylasdad99)\ **Post date:** [August 1, 2018, 5:11pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-would-you-do-as-a-tourist-in-london/794411/122 "2018-08-01T17:11:47Z")
> [@psiekier](#): > > I was lookin’ for the place called Lee Ho Fook’s. Gonna get a big dish of beef chow mein. Then a quick stop at the hairdresser before making your way to Trader Vic’s for a Pina Colada, right? ---
**Author:** ![Wendell\_Wagner](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/w/8491ac/32.png) [@Wendell\_Wagner](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Wendell_Wagner)\ **Post date:** [August 2, 2018, 12:44am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-would-you-do-as-a-tourist-in-london/794411/123 "2018-08-02T00:44:25Z")
It might be worth it to go to the ExCel Centre just to see how huge it is. I was in it in 2014 when the World Science Fiction Convention was held in one small section at one end of it. I was staying in a hotel near one end of it. It was a long walk to the convention because it was at the far end of it. ---
**Author:** ![Novelty\_Bobble](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/n/a3d4f5/32.png) [@Novelty\_Bobble](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Novelty_Bobble)\ **Post date:** [August 2, 2018, 5:58pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-would-you-do-as-a-tourist-in-london/794411/124 "2018-08-02T17:58:29Z")
If you do nothing else. Walk into the main foyer of the National Gallery (just off Trafalgar Sq) Turn right. Enjoy. Van Gogh, Monet, Renoir, Seurat, Turner, Constable and myriad other treasures. Sublime from start to finish. (and that is just one tiny part of it…but to my mind the best) Then, to clear your head. why not a stroll down Whitehall, over Westminster Bridge and down the South Bank to Tower Bridge? ---
**Author:** ![StusBlues](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/dc4da7/32.png) [@StusBlues](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/StusBlues)\ **Post date:** [August 3, 2018, 2:29pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-would-you-do-as-a-tourist-in-london/794411/125 "2018-08-03T14:29:40Z")
> [@Filbert](#): > > I do recall, some years ago, a national survey to determine the nation’s favourite British dish, the winner was chicken tikka masala. Olusoga mentioned that also 🙂 I was quite surprised to find mashed peas as a fish & chips condiment, BTW. I’d never heard of that before. I was also surprised to find that pub fare was so light in London–but that may have been a fluke. ---
**Author:** ![Novelty\_Bobble](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/n/a3d4f5/32.png) [@Novelty\_Bobble](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Novelty_Bobble)\ **Post date:** [August 3, 2018, 4:12pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-would-you-do-as-a-tourist-in-london/794411/126 "2018-08-03T16:12:14Z")
> [@StusBlues](#): > > I was quite surprised to find **mashed peas** as a fish & chips condiment, Mushy peas actually, (a much better name.) ---
**Author:** ![StusBlues](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/dc4da7/32.png) [@StusBlues](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/StusBlues)\ **Post date:** [August 19, 2018, 5:16pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-would-you-do-as-a-tourist-in-london/794411/127 "2018-08-19T17:16:23Z")
> [@Lorne\_Armstrong](#): > > Isn’t it the former Berner Street, site of the Stride murder that’s now a playground? The two murders took place on the same night. According to [this documentary](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lYUnygapWu0), the Stride murder site is indeed a playground now. Interesting that both the Stride and Eddowes sites have both been put to this use. ---
**Author:** ![Peter\_Morris](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/peter_morris/32/359_2.png) [@Peter\_Morris](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Peter_Morris)\ **Post date:** [August 19, 2018, 6:01pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-would-you-do-as-a-tourist-in-london/794411/128 "2018-08-19T18:01:51Z")
> [@StusBlues](#): > > Olusoga mentioned that also 🙂 > > I was quite surprised to find mashed peas as a fish & chips condiment, BTW… Not a condiment, a side dish. ---
**Author:** ![StusBlues](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/dc4da7/32.png) [@StusBlues](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/StusBlues)\ **Post date:** [November 5, 2018, 5:50pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-would-you-do-as-a-tourist-in-london/794411/129 "2018-11-05T17:50:31Z")
> [@StusBlues](#): > > According to [this documentary](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lYUnygapWu0), the Stride murder site is indeed a playground now. Interesting that both the Stride and Eddowes sites have both been put to this use. Just to beat this horse firmly into the ground, the Eddowes murder site is in the recreation area of what is now Sir John Cass’s Foundation Primary School. There. That’s a thing you know now. ---
**Author:** ![Wendell\_Wagner](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/w/8491ac/32.png) [@Wendell\_Wagner](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Wendell_Wagner)\ **Post date:** [November 6, 2018, 2:20am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-would-you-do-as-a-tourist-in-london/794411/130 "2018-11-06T02:20:00Z")
Go to Pollock’s Toy Museum: > **[Pollock's Toy Museum](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pollock%27s_Toy_Museum)** > > Coordinates: .mw-parser-output .geo-default,.mw-parser-output .geo-dms,.mw-parser-output .geo-dec{display:inline}.mw-parser-output .geo-nondefault,.mw-parser-output .geo-multi-punct{display:none}.mw-parser-output .longitude,.mw-parser-output .latitude{white-space:nowrap}51°31′13″N 0°8′7″W / 51.52028°N 0.13528°W / 51.52028; -0.13528 > Pollock's Toy Museum is a small, currently closed, museum in London, England. > The museum was started in 1956 in a single attic room at 44 Monmouth Street, near ... [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-would-you-do-as-a-tourist-in-london/794411.md?page=6)