Mission London

thomthom

I'm going to visit some friends of mine in London for a week.

Does anyone have a random mission for me to do in London?

(Yes, unusual request. Just a sudden impulse. I like randomness.)

Rich O Brien

Go to Gatwick and catch a flight To Shannon in Ireland, we'll go drinking and show you how hospitable the Irish really are?

Stinkie

Find a Brazilian fellow called Gregor - and kick him in the nuts from me. Yes, there actually is such a person, and yes, he deserves it.

One kick, Thomas. No need to get carried away.

thomthom

My flight land in Gatwick.
I've yet to go to Ireland, but it's on my list. Last summer I was in Scottland.

I'll give you a shout when Ireland is my destination.

david_h

bring me back a take-out order from Nando's Portuguese Grill.

mmmm

thomthom

@unknownuser said:

Find a Brazilian fellow called Gregor - and kick him in the nuts from me. Yes, there actually is such a person, and yes, he deserves it.

One kick, Thomas. No need to get carried away.

Gregor is a Brazilian name?
One person, in London, from Brasil, named Gregor... easy peasy.

solo

@unknownuser said:

Nando's Portuguese Grill

Oh yeah!! the best peri chicken I've tasted, I remember as a kid when they first started (They are a South African company), I still get the Nandos peri sauces shipped to me every so often.

Back in the day they also had the best TV ads, racey, controversial and sometimes insulting...very funny.

Stinkie

@thomthom said:

One person, in London, from Brasil, named Gregor... easy peasy.

Oughta be!

I have indeed always found it a tad strange the bstrd has a German name. Maybe his grandad emigrated for some reason, eh?

If you don't feel like kicking him, a pie in the face will do just as well. Well, almost.

johnsenior1973

Go to Chelsea FC's stadium, Stamford Bridge, and take 100s of photographs for use in SU modeling. Put them on flickr.

Go to the top of the Gherkin or Canary Wharf Tower. Not sure if there's public viewing at either, but your mission will be harder if there isn't. Think there's a bar or restaurant at the top of the Gherkin.

Travel through every station on the underground.

Visit every football ground inside the M25.

Watch Harlequins RL play a rugby league match.

Walk across every walkable bridge between Battersea and Tower Bridge's.

pmiller

Go to the top of Primrose Hill for the midnight bark.

linea

Try telling a cockney that there is a whole country outside of London that has hills, fresh air and fields, but they will probably refuse to listen.

Jackson

Random mission: Get to Mornington Crescent.

Less random mission: visit Sir John Soane's House- I never thought a 200 year old townhouse could teach me so much about design, especially from a modernist point of view. Get there before doors open if you can as architects and students queue round the block to visit it.

http://www.soane.org/

Even less random mission: Have a few beers in The Social, Little Portland Street. Great little modern pub tucked away down a back street, nice mix of people, feels like a speakeasy, designed by David Adjaye.

http://www.thesocial.com/

Alan Fraser

Walk under the Thames. Most people don't know it's there, but there's a Victorian pedestrian tunnel that goes under the Thames from Greenwich to the Isle of Dogs (near Canary Wharf). The entrance is a circular building next to the old sailing ship the Cutty Sark.
While you are there, go into the old Naval College on the other side of the Cutty Sark and take the exact same picture of the chapel there that appears here in the movie Amazing Grace. Then post it when you get back.