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Can someone help me find what tube I need to take?
trullis · 25/08/2020 11:38
I will be going into London for the first time on my own and I will need to take the tube from Kensington Palace Gardens into the city centre. I've never done this and looking at the map is extremely confusing!! Can anyone help please?
HowDeeDooDee · 25/08/2020 17:10
It would be handy to know where you are driving in from and where your appt is. You can look at the Parkopedia site and type in Kensington Gardens. It shows a map of the local area, the park, the tubes, the carparks nearby and the charges. Some carparks have a max stay of 4 hours. I think you need to say how much time you have, everything takes longer than you expect and decide what places you really want to visit. Sometimes a mooch through the parks and shops is nice to do and you pass many sites.
GreyGardens88 · 25/08/2020 17:30
@boltzmannbrains
I visit Woolwich sometimes to pursue a niche hobby I have. It is a truly awful and creepy place lol, I certainly wouldn't suggest OP goes anywhere near it
boltzmannbrains · 25/08/2020 18:43
It’s not remotely creepy or awful, it’s a wonderful place. Like anywhere there are dodgy parts, posh/bougie parts, and parts that are in the middle.
Inching · 25/08/2020 18:47
I visit Woolwich sometimes to pursue a niche hobby I have. It is a truly awful and creepy place
I now want to know what this niche hobby is that is pursued in 'awful and creepy' Woolwich -- ghost hunting? beetle fighting? taxidermy? necrophilia? 
alexdgr8 · 25/08/2020 19:00
why do you need to drive, most people would find that daunting, in the rush hour.
which direction are you coming from.
could you come in by train.
do you know exactly where you intend to park.
how long will you have for sight-seeing.
i recommend open-topped tourist buses. hop on, hop off.
boltzmannbrains · 25/08/2020 19:01
Doing ferry-wheelies in the middle of the Thames.
Restoring fake tiny castles.
Viewing vast steam engines.
Fossicking in ancient woodland.
Bear baiting.
(One of the above is made up. )
Holyrivolli · 25/08/2020 19:14
Seems bonkers that someone so clueless, nervy and unable to decipher a tube map or the myriad of online resources to plan travel in London would drive in to close to central London and then do a crazy mix and match of tourist activities. They don’t even about parking for their appointment but start quizzing about river travel.
How do some adults cope in the world themselves ?
GreyGardens88 · 25/08/2020 20:02
@boltzmannbrains
The High Street is full of people sat alone on the benches all up and down the street doing nothing but staring into space. Also people hanging around outside the shops staring at you as you walk past. This is on a weekday mid-morning. The whole area feels like the edge of the world and gives me twilight zone vibes, I've never visited anywhere else that does this.
boltzmannbrains · 27/08/2020 15:49
Okay I realise this is a derail and a dead thread but it's going to bug me if I don't reply:
The issue with Woolwich is that it is quite segregated and experiences a huge socioeconomic and racial divide, literally divided by a single road.
Woolwich traditionally is a working class area and a black area. A few years ago developers took over waste land where the former military arsenal buildings were, and put up a very fancy, very expensive gated community (which is where I own a flat). Think private swimming pools and concierges, expensive boulangeries, etc. This gentrification created a huge divide in the area, literally divided by a single road. I doubt you have visited that part of Woolwich.
Greenwich council have done a lot to try to combat this divide, and they've put a lot of effort into making Woolwich 'proper' (the area around the station and the high street) into an enjoyable outdoor area. That's why there's a huge square with many seating areas, council-funded street art, street musicians, and the tiny little miniature fairground. Woolwich does tend to have a large older population, and also fairly high unemployment, so there are many residents who I guess don't have anything else to do except sit and socialised in the square and on the high street benches all day. Woolwich has an outdoor socialisation culture which previously I've only experienced outside the UK, and I guess you need to get used to it. People are not "creepy" just because they are unemployed or poor or because they come from an Afro-Caribbean culture where it's more commonplace to hang out and socialise outdoors.
Plus... I'm not accusing you of being racist, but I do have to wonder if the fact the people hanging out are pretty much exclusively black triggered some subconscious bias that contributed to your feeling of discomfort.
Leo89 · 27/08/2020 16:03
As a Londoner, download the tube map app. It’s a life saver in London!
nosswith · 29/08/2020 17:06
Tempusfudgeit I went through Mornington Crescent today. Someone got off the tube but thought better of it and got back on!
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