Here are a few more London test questions, to add to the growing reader lists on the earlier post. You know you’re a real Londoner when;
1. You know what the photo shows and where it is.
2. You know about the parking space on the South side of Waterloo Bridge that’s always free because you have to back into it from a roundabout.
3. You go to the South Bank on a summer’s morning to read the papers, but you get out before everyone else arrives.
4. You get Time Out on a Tuesday morning and the Sunday papers on Saturday night.
5. You know that Camden Passage is not in the same borough as Camden Lock.
6. You buy theatre tickets at the theatre.
7. You think people from West London technically live in the country.
8. All you know about Theydon Bois is that it’s at the end of the Central Line (you’d been to a party, you meant to change at Oxford Circus but you fell asleep)
9. You’re glad they pulled down the Swiss Centre cinema.
10. Someone makes a joke about the Spaghetti House Siege and you get it.
Keep those suggestions coming!
Is backing into that parking space during a sunset fine?
Plus Camden Market isn’t the same as Camden Lock Market (which seems simply designed to annoy those from away).
You get used to checking the name of the street you’re on at the end of each block (because it’s changed, obviously)
Sorry to interrupt but could I point out to I.A.M. that you have a , where there should be . in your URL which my browser finds distressing.
And yes, I do primarily read the OP as I’m an Australian with an interest in things London and British but I also like to track back those who respond to posts.
You know your a Londoner (or currently away from it) when you know that you order from the counter at Maison Berteaux in Greek St, before you ever dare to sit down at a table (and also know it does better patisserie than Valerie).
And you know The French House doesn’t serve pints.
Erm… is this alleged constantly empty spot to park up basically one of three spots nearly in front of the The Royal Hospital for Women and Children? Head here for image, showing 50% of three parking spots in extreme lower left: http://www.panoramio.com/photo/9254888 and those of you who have Google Earth can then click the “See in Google Earth” link above the photo for the full-meal deal experience.
If that’s the spot(s), then it’s no wonder they’re nearly always empty!
You know you’re a Londoner when the play’s at the Barbican, and — while you might take the Northern Line — you’re not headed to Old Street Station which is actually in “the Barbican district”. In reality, no one’s really sure where the Barbican is, or if it even exists, see earlier note.
All very well and good but where IS the picture at the top of all this? The only thing I know is that I am very glad not to have had to deal with that intersection (?) as far as I know.
And what WAS the Spaghetti House Siege?
Don’t worry Helen – the top picture is a sculpture in Canary Wharf. And the Spaghetti House Siege involved the holding hostage of diners in a restaurant for six days in the seventies.
Brian: terribly sorry, things have been fixed now. When Windows 7 got installed last week, the keyboard went a bit wobbly for a day or two, so some punctuation characters were on walk-about. This comment’s link works.
Pray tell, what does “OP” refer to, or is one being more thick than usual?
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