Oxford, once away from the area of the station and near the colleges, is really small/compact and easy to find your way about - if you do get lost its quite a pleasant place to get lost though ;) And it has lots and lots of signs.
London is of course immense. If you like the tube though it's not hard to find your way about. I dont so I just plan in advance where I want to go and which buses to catch - I like these as you get to see the street life passing by and the tube is horrible. London is strangely quite a safe place too, the centre is so big that there are always people about and you dont quickly find yourself in strange deserted residential areas (like you might quite soon in Liverpool or Sheffield for example). So you feel pretty safe walking about. Especially in the evenings near where the theatres are, as there are hordes of people milling about until well after midnight - strangely London can be very quiet in the mornings until 11 or 12 - except around 'office-y' areas like Holborn.
The only pain with Oxford and London is neither place has any benches or walls to sit down on and have a rest! I'm used to places like York and Lincoln and Sheffield where we have tons of benches to sit and chill out on!
Getting lost is quite easy for me. XD Also, I've watched too many episodes of Hustle, so now I'm going to think that everyone walking past me is a con artist trying to pick pocket me. They say you can't con an honest man, that doesnt seem to count when they are just nicking money from everyone who has some.
The problem with going to see the Lord of the Rings musical will be that the showing times are all in the evening. So I'll have to get into London at some unearthly hour like midday, find a hotel type thing and by the time I have found one and not got mugged, I'll probably already be late. ;p
Okay, I must remember to take my portable chair then. :p
have you had a look at coach companies that do trips? There are some by us doing daytime trips to see LOTR The Musical - you go down in the day to see the matinee performance (usually around 2 or 3pm) and then you can either stay in a hotel they arrange for you or come back that evening. Might be a laugh too with other Rings nuts on board the coach!
I'd never go down to London without booking a room though! I know some decent places if you do go though!
That's not bad at all (quite cheap for a London hotel in fact)- but you'd still need a train ticket!
Get the Yellow Pages and look up what coach companies they have. I used to go to see bands with one based in Liverpool, they used to pick you up in Ormskirk and take you to Birmingham NEC or wherever, plus they organised tickets and that too. It was great - and safe enough for me to be allowed permission to go on them from being only about 14!
You will certainly see some coach company ads in the local papers too - they might not list trips to see LOTR but if you rang they might have some. I think I saw an ad for Holmeswood Coaches in the Ormskirk Advertiser last week in fact (me dad saves them up for me and fetches them over) listing day trips and whatnot so they may do them.
Our local companies here advertise by leaving leaflets in the local bus station and travel agents.
London is of course immense. If you like the tube though it's not hard to find your way about. I dont so I just plan in advance where I want to go and which buses to catch - I like these as you get to see the street life passing by and the tube is horrible. London is strangely quite a safe place too, the centre is so big that there are always people about and you dont quickly find yourself in strange deserted residential areas (like you might quite soon in Liverpool or Sheffield for example). So you feel pretty safe walking about. Especially in the evenings near where the theatres are, as there are hordes of people milling about until well after midnight - strangely London can be very quiet in the mornings until 11 or 12 - except around 'office-y' areas like Holborn.
The only pain with Oxford and London is neither place has any benches or walls to sit down on and have a rest! I'm used to places like York and Lincoln and Sheffield where we have tons of benches to sit and chill out on!
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Also, I've watched too many episodes of Hustle, so now I'm going to think that everyone walking past me is a con artist trying to pick pocket me. They say you can't con an honest man, that doesnt seem to count when they are just nicking money from everyone who has some.
The problem with going to see the Lord of the Rings musical will be that the showing times are all in the evening. So I'll have to get into London at some unearthly hour like midday, find a hotel type thing and by the time I have found one and not got mugged, I'll probably already be late. ;p
Okay, I must remember to take my portable chair then. :p
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I'd never go down to London without booking a room though! I know some decent places if you do go though!
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I may take a look...
I know that the website where you can order tickets for LotR M offers a performance and a hotel room for £90. That can't be bad.
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Get the Yellow Pages and look up what coach companies they have. I used to go to see bands with one based in Liverpool, they used to pick you up in Ormskirk and take you to Birmingham NEC or wherever, plus they organised tickets and that too. It was great - and safe enough for me to be allowed permission to go on them from being only about 14!
You will certainly see some coach company ads in the local papers too - they might not list trips to see LOTR but if you rang they might have some. I think I saw an ad for Holmeswood Coaches in the Ormskirk Advertiser last week in fact (me dad saves them up for me and fetches them over) listing day trips and whatnot so they may do them.
Our local companies here advertise by leaving leaflets in the local bus station and travel agents.
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