london

i dont think its that lolworthy to write about any of these places tbh

a person can read a thousand guides and books about westminster, they're not going to just read this one piece - and if they base a trip around one short piece well thats their problem not the articles. a person is surely capably of assimilating multiple sources and then deciding what works for them

the fact that that deptford article was originally published three years ago as well, it was probably even more barren then

to go so far as to mention the bunker, honestly words fail

people get too caught up in seeing things as "100 places you must see before you die" instead of "here is a place, you might like it, you might not, take it or leave it"

they already have their copy of lonely planet anyhow

also people are kinda assuming some 'default reader' when there are multiple types of reader - what about someone who has been to london 7-8 times already? are they supposed to read about Regents Park again?

Also Slocki are you coming to Todd Terje tonight? In London's brutalist Elephant & Castle you will find an edge that many believe has disappeared from much of New York altogether.

― Homosexual Satan Wasp (Matt DC), Saturday, April 28, 2012 5:11 AM (45 minutes ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

I wish, I couldn't get tix :(

you'll be fine to get in on the door if you don't go too late.

xxp, yep - London doesn't really have a default off-track destination for people wanting interesting bars and galleries like a lot of other cities have (the Navigli in Milan, etc) and Dalston / Shoreditch are as valid a choice as any. If it can draw people away from the horrors of Camden, which seems to be the place most go for this sort of stuff, that's definitely a good thing.

You could probably learn a lot as a visitor by walking from somewhere like Stamford Hill, through Stoke Newington and Dalston, to the City.

I barely even think of Clerkenwell as East London at all, although I suppose it is technically

Clerkenwell is in no sense East London - it's west of the City!

... but east of Charing X, London's technical centre

i realised the other day that i have come to think of holborn as "south london" and indeed "west london"

Holborn & Bloomsbury now "Midtown"

The property industry has been trying to make "Midtown" happen for years, it isn't working.

Just like they did with "Noho", right?

It's not even the recommendations so much as the gormlessness of the writing itself, so one pub "has been salvaged from the remains of one of the area’s most notorious dives, and now hosts indie types lounging on studded leather sofas on a stripped pine floor, sampling Belgian Trappist beers (£3.60) and baked breaded Camembert with cranberry sauce (£6.95)". But there's generally more dreadful travel writing out there than there is great stuff.

would read an all-ilx 48 hours in london guide

Tuesday
4am

ETHNIC BREAKFAST

In a railway arch in Canning Town, where Blade Runner meets My Beautiful Launderette, sample the local speciality of 'pickles and yams', a common early-morning call from this district's earthily honest street vendors. In this vibrant multicultural district of narrow cobbled streets and gaslit privet-hedged parks, the yammering of Senegalese garment workers and Ruthenian wholesale grocers mingle amid the Muezzins and the dawn chorus of jackdaws and civet cats.

So guess what?

http://travel.nytimes.com/

"London: A Special Issue"

Thrill! Maybe some of it is even correct.

If there's anyone you want doing a guide to London it's A.A Gill...

journalists from new york and london should be forbidden from writing about each others' cities

i remember one particularly awful pre-lehmann circle jerk in 'new york magazine' wherein the relatives merits of both where tediously elaborated

where

Just visited Broadway Market for a banh mi lunch, then strolled along the canal and visited the Geffrye Museum. Excellent afternoon outing, top job NYT.

I just went to Broadway too haha

~I'm everywhere~

Really like the Geffrye museum fwiw.

would read an all-ilx 48 hours in london guide

― J0rdan, Diddy (tpp), Saturday, April 28, 2012 5:50 AM (8 hours ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

the shard!!!

https://p.twimg.com/AuIEKRqCAAAlMnv.jpg

Really want to see that effect irl. Love the shard, it's so futuristic.

love the shard as well, people who whinge about how out-of-place or capitalist it is can do one

i find usually it looks better at night, though the above is an exception.

was surprised on staurday that you can see the shard (and the post office tower) from wormwood scrubs (8 miles away)

gotta ask, what were you doing at wormwood scrubs

Yeah the Shard looks a bit disappointing in grey weather (contrast to the Gherkin which looks good all the time) but those photos in bright sunlight make you realise what the architects were getting at. Looking forward to seeing it properly illuminated at night.

I don't think I like this building very much. Maybe I'll get used to its presence eventually.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Wormwood_Scrubs.JPG

was walking around the common land that HMP Wormwood Scrubs is named after. didn't really go anywhere near the prison (having missed the turn and there being only so many places you can get across the central line, the next one was too far west for the prison)

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wormwood_Scrubs

(Trellick Tower's in that picture, which is looking north east ish, shard is behind the trees on the right)

I can't wait until christmas, surely they'll light it up like a huge tree.

xp

large part of the park is designated a model aircraft flying zone (someone was flying noisy jet there on saturday) and also labelled as MOD land on the maps.

i was surprised to learn that the shard is gonna be the tallest building in europe.

love the shard as well, people who whinge about how out-of-place or capitalist it is can do one

Nah, come on, it's a filthy spindle - razor ad city boy filth.

the glass is cheap or sthing which is why it looks kind of dull when it doesn't happen to precisely reflect the sun

its really REALLY out of place - at least it doesn't make sense when looking at it from shabby London Bridge station.

i don't think it's too bad but it is to renzo piano what say neu! 2 is to klaus dinger

the thrustingness that is nauseating makes me feel unwell. I'm fairly free about things generally but I wd like a nasty vicious cock in my horizontal vision?

the apogee is the worst part, there are a few canted plasticky triangular bits that are supposed to signify/homage the sails of london's mercantile history

kinda like the new Utd kit

yes!

what 21st century forms and commodities will be given tribute in the showpiece architecture of the 23rd century

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the glass is cheap or sthing

why oh why didn't they fit the best - everest.

i actually love the way it's out of the way of the usual city cluster of high rises. it makes it seem less obtrusive, like it's not disrupting an already familiar skyline; but at the same time it can suddenly appear from the most unexpected locations.