Things To Do In London: The Ones You Might Not Know
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- Опубліковано 20 лип 2024
- We've been asked for a list of things to do in London as a tourist. Here are some things that may be off-the-radar! Details are in the description below!
MATT: / unnamedculprit | TOM: / tomscottgo
** THE BIG LIST **
Ian Visits
London Events listings
www.ianvisits.co.uk/
Transport for London Tours
Organised by the London Transport Museum
www.ltmuseum.co.uk/
Mail Rail
Information probably available via the Postal Museum
postalmuseum.org/
Granary Square, Kings Cross
Cool Fountains (at night)
www.kingscross.co.uk/granary-...
Grant Museum of Zoology
Weird specimens in jars
www.ucl.ac.uk/museums/zoology
Horniman Museum
Huge taxidermy collection
www.horniman.ac.uk/
Sir John Soane's Museum
A house full of old artefacts
www.soane.org/
Platform 9 3/4
Long queues for a photo at Kings Cross.
www.harrypotterplatform934.co...
PARKS:
Holland Park
Battersea Park
Finsbury Park
Hampstead Heath
Parliament Hill
Richmond Park
Greenwich Park
Alexandra Palace
Events space, pub and park with spectacular views of London.
www.alexandrapalace.com/
Not The Nine O'Clock News: Darts sketch
• Drunk Darts
Bletchley Park
Where Alan Turing & team cracked the Enigma Code. Home of the National Museum of Computing
www.bletchleypark.org.uk/
The Barbican
Brutalist housing & events centre
www.barbican.org.uk/
Hawksmoor
Steak Restaurant (£££)
thehawksmoor.com/
ClueQuest
Escape Room
cluequest.co.uk/
The Crystal Maze
Experience based on the '90s TV show
the-crystal-maze.com/
(We mentioned Fort Boyard and Legends of the Hidden Temple while trying to explain this.) - Розваги
Things to do in London:
-Carrying a plank along the pavement
-Defacing money
-Shaking a doormat after 8 pm
-Assaulting someone with Salmon
-Flying a kite in a public place
WE FLEW A KITE IN A PUBLIC PLACE, WE FLEW A KITE IN A PUBLIC PLACE
wait, that's illegal!
🤣🤣
-knocking on doors and running away before they answer
-singing a vulgar song in public
Oh, you are a criminal, aren't you?
I flew a kite in a public place
Absolute Madman
Did you have a license for that?
You have committed crimes against London and her people, what say you in your defence?
This was on autoplay after I watched that
Bom bom bom bom bom bom bom bom WE FLEW A KITE IN A PUBLIC PLACE
Matt, I walked past you in Leicester Square on the 7th. I would have said hi, but I was stuck on "Hey that's Matt from UA-cam"
+thequeenofspades haha, well spotted --Matt
@@robertcrawshaw9978 hol' up
I'm just now watching this and realizing this and the "Places to Eat in London" video were the only sources for my brother's list of things to see, do, and eat when we visited last year. Everything we managed to do (especially the Charing Cross tour, which I cannot recommend highly enough) off his list was great. So, thanks, from the future!
Well, I'm watching this in 2020. So, there's nowhere I can go.
Well, some things for your bucket list, I guess.
Exactly...
Wellllll, you could go underground, I guess
(It's a metaphor. If you get it, don't do that, would make me sad. Again.)
im watching in 2021, in lockdown in australia. dont see myself in london any time soon at All
@@antlover5396 I was watching this from Kazakhstan. Where I'm right now. So literally same.
Cambridge's computing museum is "The Centre for Computing History".
The Bletchley computing museum is "The National Museum of Computing".
It is now the future and I am here to say that the mail rail is open.
I might go and see them sometime, looks interesting
I can confirm the world is closed.
It is now even further in the future and I am here to say that the mail rail is closed due to COVID
I so want to go see that!
Is it still open or are they keeping us posted for details?
Matt Grey's Overstuffed Walrus needs to be a prize on Citation Needed. I don't know how, but it needs to happen
+mistformsquirrel "a fellow friends overstuffed mammal"
+steftast1c Perhaps also 'A friend's fully filled fantastic fixture'
***** Your icon is amazing.
thank you
"If you'te watching in the future"
Me: oh ok, so this was filmed in 2018 or 19
"If you're watching in 2017 or 18"
Me: :0
:OO
:OOO
That line was jarring for me because I watched this when it came out and it just got re-recommended to me
:OOOO
hearing 2017-2018 being referred to as the future was fun
my top tips
the DLR (children can be fooled into believing it's a theme park) and Highgate Cemetery (no child will believe this is a theme park)
+outaspaceman Besides Wednesday Addams, that is
BrySchec I would pray there.
Please dont spit on Marxs grave. Thats so disrespectful
+Harry Todhunter I have a feeling that Marx was a grave spitting kind of person.
@@harrytodhunter5078 That's the point. Marx should be disrespected.
I would recommend Churchill's underground WW2 bunker at Westminster. It's called "Churchill War Rooms" and is really worth it if you are interested in WW2 or Churchill himself.
Oh, yeah, been there while in London, nice place
Yes, they are amazing. I think they also has Enigma machine
That was a really nice place to visit
Oh crap I went there. It is indeed very good
super cool
Or better yet for platform 9 and 3/4; turn up at King's Cross at 10/11PM when the Harry Potter shop is closed. The trolley is always there - you won't be able to get a professional picture but as long as you've got a friend to take it jobs a good'un.
Bring your own scarf though !
I work at kings cross, would recommend doing 9 and 3/4 late evening as they take the queue line away and you can take your own pictures, you can visit the shop earlier in the day then come back for the photo op later.
Joke's on you, I'm watching this in 2020 so I can't go anywhere, let alone the mail rail tunnels
But LT Museum are doing virtual hidden london tours to the old underground stations (See LT Museum web site)
Wow it's 2021 and we still can't go anywhere!
I would really recommend going there when you can
Now that I am addicted to British panel comedy on UA-cam, I find my biggest curiosity would be to visit many of the shops that are constantly mentioned, with lunch at Nandos.
which are your favourites? tried 8 out of 10 cats does countdown? QI?
Kimberly Warthman I’m gonna be honest nandos is nothing to weatherspoons
@@oxybrightdark8765 spoons is basically heaven on earth
@Kimberly Warthman - a word to the wise: in Britain you don't tell people you're "going to Nandos for lunch". You have to say you're going for a "cheeky Nandos".
It's the law 🤨😉
I'm a vegetarian who hates spicy food, so Nando's is my idea of hell.
Tom: Crystal Maze
Me: *British cheering noises*
Me watching in 2020: crystal maze !!! (1990's flashback)
tom: "if you're watching this in 2017 or 2018"
me: "challenge accepted"
You accepted the challenge to travel back in time to watch this video?
I’ll do you one better
Noah Harden no better!
@@kdlk9139 corona time gang
Andreas Petersen why else am I rewatching all of these videos
I'm starting up a guided tour of all the park benches Matt and Tom have ever sat on.
My Great Grandad worked with Alan Turing at Bletchley Park. He received an award can't quite remember what
That is really really cool
My grandmother and god-mother worked there. Granny met Grandad there. Fair chance he worked with Turing. He went onto to work on British Nuclear weapons program. Before dying of stage 4 cancer, cos hot work radioactive handling regs back then were non existent.😮
Did anyone else think Matt's sunglasses were actually a yarmulke?
Idk about anybody else, but I'm now *really* curious to see Tom's "set it up for a sequel" mime
+basherofnoggins I have no idea what it is and I want to know. Hope he does it at some point.
One of my favorite things was the RAF museum in Hendon.
Fly a kite in a public place.
StrokeMahEgo I flew a kite in a puuuuuuuubliiiiiic place
We flew a kite in a puuubbb llliccc place.
they should release that as an actual song
@@HalfElfHalfling someone did haha
Also Tim Hunkin's Novelty Automation in Holborn
Sounds like something fans of your channel (and sundry engineers) would appreciate.
Cheers for that. :D
Now I just need to book a transatlantic flight...
+mikeselectricstuff I visited that in 2015 and that place was so super neat i'll definately recommend it :D
I went there today, left exhilarated and with the most evpressive photo booth photos ever, a bit of nuclear waste, a Nobel prize and a single, slightly burned piece of popcorn. You'll need to buy tokens for the machines, using all of them will set you back ca 18£, but it is so worth it.
So in regards to Granary Square, my girlfriend studies there at Central Saint Martins and they have bought the app so you can still play snake on the fountains. They are sometimes turned off though (like this week for the CSM's Degree show.)
Also in regards to Gardens Hilly Fields is a lush park in South london (Ladywell Train Station and Brockley overground. Also get on the P4 from there to the Horniman Museum,) Its bloody lovely. Good place for a park bench just FYI.
Also I'm pretty sure you're filming in Ladywell Fields..
walking alone at in Croydon... thats something too... (HINT: DONT DO IT)
and if you are a fan of Horror movies: The HELLRAISER house (exterior) is at 187 Dollis Hill Lane, NW2 which is quite near Brent Cross.
I live in America. I used to live in Baltimore. I've walked around alone crying at 2am in Baltimore. I feel perfectly safe walking through Croyden. I've done it myself.
-Borough market is an excellent place for food (it's a food market if you're not familiar), they have a website for opening times.
-Wanted to add to your recommendation of Greenwich park that it has a great view of Canary Wharf from afar and is generally a nice park
-There's a decent market in Portabello Road at certain times
-Going to the top of The Shard really is awesome and a little cheaper if you book in advance (note that lunch time is often busy)
-There's a restaurant that looks to have a cool view at the top of The Gherkin
-Covent Garden often has things going on there and loads of shops including a really cool market, there's stuff nearby too (comic book shop, international sweets shop, etc). I think there's a railway museum or something along those lines there too. Awesome christmas decorations there at the right time of year as well
-Excel often has conventions going on (there's about two comicons that happen there for example)
-Going to a play at the Globe Theatre is a really cool experience, it felt very authentic when I went a few years back
That's all I can think of at the top of my head, as I say, there's always something going on in London
I'm watching this in 2018, and have been down the Mail Rail. It's great! Had to buy tickets 4 months in advance though.
Try the Hunterian Museum at the Royal College of Surgeons if you want to see stuff in jars. It's directly opposite the Soane's museum and it's free.
My infrastructure recommendation - and I know this is something you've done, Tom, because you've posted a GIF of yourself there, though I was almost disappointed that it was a GIF rather than a longer video - is the ULTra personal rapid transit ("podcar") system at Terminal Five in Heathrow. It's a series of automated driverless taxi-like vehicles. It's simultaneously incredibly space-age and incredibly mundane and ordinary, which makes it even better.
"To anyone watching this in the future" is a fair claim. the NSA and GCHQ were watching live!
+Wouter Weggelaar yes they are.
+Wouter Weggelaar What, while they were filming? I doubt it.
+AnimeSunglasses Through surveillance cameras
AHH.
+proefslak doubt a camera was pointing there.
there are several escape the room thingies in berlin, the one i got for easter is called "go west", for obvious reasons
"A friend showed me a picture of himself and said 'This is a picture of me when I was younger.' I told him 'EVERY picture of you is a picture of you when you were younger!'" - Mitch Hedberg
Your comment about "if anyone's watching this in the future" "no one's watching it live" made me think of that classic Mitch joke. Of course like all his jokes his weird delivery is half the humor.
Couple of unusual places- Kirkaldy testing Museum, and God's Own Junkyard - Google will find them
When you are talking about preserved specimen in London, don´t forget the Hunterian Museum near Holborn. It also has a big portion on the history of surgery.
Florian Euchale Blum wash your hair please
Wait, Hunterian Museum? Holborn? I didn't know there were Hunterians outside of Glasgow! I guess Hunter got about.
The Docklands Museum is free and you can get to it using the DLR (Docklands Light Railway) which I always find quite a fun way to travel. More like a monorail in the theme park called London.
There is a lot of free stuff in London, but probably obvious - Natural History Museum and Science Museum are next door to each other but both free. Go early in the morning to avoid queues.
For an interesting pub, try the Argyll Arms near Oxford Circus - built in 1742, but with some Victorian additions, it is quite an interesting place to go for a drink!
Look for a cafe 'Fatboy's Diner' near (not that near) East India Dock DLR for somewhere with a really 'off the beaten track' vibe. It's in an area of old docklands with loads of incongruous artsy sculptures and architecture around.
Ah my fave action movies: Skyfall, Bourne Supremacy and Paddington bear!
Visit the Royal Society and say hi to Keith. :)
Just what I was about to say! 👍🏼
+slikrx I really want to go there, but there are 2 addresses here. Is it 6-9 Carlton house terrace or 59 mansell st?
+Rochester Oliveira Send them an Email I think nobody here can help you...unless of course Brady shows up here...(FYI Brady: He's got many UA-cam Channels including "Objectivity" which focuses on Objects from the archives of the Royal Society in London).
Edward Überfluss
thanks, man! :)
Rochester Oliveira Your Welcome!
Thanks, Matt & Tom! My family just spent four days in London and in addition to the regular tourist sites, we visited Bletchley Park, the National Museum of Computing, and Clue Quest London on your recommendations. All of them were great! We also saw the Crystal Palace dinosaurs and found the secret turny-button thingies under the pedestrian crossing boxes. Wish we'd had time to see more of the things you suggested. Love your channel(s)!
should have flew a kite in a public place :D
A few suggestions in the area near the Sir John Soane's Museum:
- The other side of Lincoln's Inn Fields is the Hunterian Museum. Great for body parts in jars and other things on the history of surgery.
- The Inns of Court - Grey's Inn, Lincoln's Inn, Inner Temple and Middle Temple are worth looking around. They're surprisingly hidden away. Particularly Inner Temple and Middle Temple, which you can get to off the Strand/Fleet Street or Embankment. This is where barristers used to be trained and where many Chambers are. The Temple Church is a really interesting church dating back to the Crusades. You have to pay to go in, but it's impressive from the outside too.
- Royal Courts of Justice. Just go in and sit in a case for a little while! Although this may be more interesting for prospective law students, I realise.
- St Clement Danes - the RAF Church. It's got some interesting stuff about the RAF in there. Outside there's an infamous statue of Bomber Harris.
If you're near the Barbican, go to Postman's Park, which is a couple of minutes away. There's an interesting memorial set up to people who sacrificed their lives to save others, which is quite poignant. Also, they didn't mention that the Museum of London is at the Barbican - perhaps because it's a bit more well-known.
If you find brutalist architecture interesting and you're near Russell Square (perhaps you've just been visiting the British Museum), have a look at the Brunswick Centre. It's also right next to the Foundling Museum - a museum about a home for abandoned children.
If you're here in summer and it's actually hot, go to a lido or a swimming pond! There are several, but to name a few: Serpentine (Hyde Park), Hampstead Pools, Parliament Hill Lido and Richmond Lido.
Thanks.
One park I've always loved is Russell Square Park. Whenever we got to London and Visit the British Museum, we spend time in that park. It's very nice.
UNEXPECTED TOM HIDDLESTON MENTION BRINGING JOY TO MY HEART
Same xD
Thanks for all of those nice suggestions! I'm possibly going to visit London again this year, I'll be sure to check some of these out
the Sherlock Holmes museum and tour of the city as featured in the books and various screen plays is worth it, can be a tad pricey but fun.
I'm taking my Grandfather to the now opened mail rail tunnels because he used to work loading mail into the trains that used to use those exact tunnels in the 70s.
You should have mentioned the conservatory in the Barbican on the 3rd floor! That is probably my favourite place in London. I know they only really open it on Sunday, but very worthwhile.
Bletchley's Museum of Computing is really good, definitely go if you're in the general vicinity of England.
also if you go to Bletchley you get a year pass too
Josh Court I got in free with my Maths' A-Level class.
I live in Bletchley!
I would highly recommend the sky garden on top of 20 fenchurch street, amazing view!! Also it becomes a bar after I think 8pm, and I don't think you need tickets for that. Just saying that you should book tickets well in advance as it sells out quickly
Is the David J. Bodycombe, game designer on The Crystal Maze (wikipedia footnote 29, or Google results box), the same David Bodycombe who was the game designer for Tom's Game On series?
I went to Holland Park back in May, when I was on Holiday in London. Very nice park! Did a raid on Pokemon Go.
The Bread and Roses Pub in Clapham has a theatre showing alternative and upcoming plays, and Europe's oldest operating theatre is preserved at a museum above a church near London Bridge.
I had the great good fortune to connect through King's Cross a couple of years ago at a not so busy time, and got through the line at Platform 9 3/4 in about 2 minutes.
Wellcome Collection! Near Euston, always something worth looking at there!
Really far south London: Farthing Downs and Happy Valley as there are great views and it's a wonderful name. In central a place I've never been to but keep meaning to go is The Grapes, Limehouse. Owned by Sir Ian Mckellen and he's put Gandalf's staff behind the bar.
I'm watching this in the future remembering how, in the past, I did check out the mail rail tour and it was interesting!
That crystal maze experience sounds amazing, I love that London has crazy cool stuff like this
Kew Bridge Steam Museum. If you like steam engines they have some lovely ones which that they run on weekends, also just over the river from Kew Gardens which is a bit expensive but lovely to wander around
And i find i come full circle. I came to / found your channel from suggested videos after watching about intersting facts about hte underground stations...........
You seem to be a natural presenter, good voice able to make things weirdly interesting and do videos on a very wide range of things.
Keep it up. thanks for hte entertainment and learning! :)
I used to live just out side Bletchley. It took me about 16 years to finally know about what went on there. It is well worth a visit!
+George Hirst In my opinion, Bletchley is great, especially the computer museum!
I might be going to London this summer. I will certainly use this video to help me plan my trip. Thank you very much.
Did you go in the end? I'm reading all the comments on this video.
Darts is also apparently a thing in Australia, at least to the degree that there was a riot at a final a few years ago which included the throwing of chairs.
I always find a trip on the Thames Clipper to be quite fun!
As a Poirot fan I liked taking a walk to Charterhouse Square to see Florin Court/Whitehaven Mansions.
Also Eltham Palace is perhaps a bit pricey but interesting Art Deco mansion if that is your thing.
I went on the tour of Charring Cross a few weeks ago, absolutely brilliant!
I (last year) went on the Hidden London tour of Aldwych/Strand (another disused station) and it’s really cool. That train in Tom’s photo is the last unrefurbished Mk1 1972 stock train (it’s only 4 carriages long) and is one of the last trains anywhere on the tube that has a section in the driving motor carriages for the guard’s door controls.
I stayed in a youth hostel in London and it was right near an art gallery, a health food restaurant and an artisan bakers, so I would reccomend staying somewhere that is on a back road or something, well worth it.
Pro tip: If you like Hawksmoor, go to Foxlow instead. Same people, same meat from the same butcher, half the price. I actually prefer Foxlow, even if it was the same price. Much more chilled atmosphere, less pretentious... RibEye is just as good. No Porterhouse though if your going all out and want to spend £80 on a steak that doesn't taste better than a RibEye
This was freaking awesome. I'd love to visit some of these when I go to London next time!
Glad you mentioned Bletchley. Walked around there for 3 hours and didn't see everything. This is making me want to go back to London again.
Things to see in London: a couple of HILARIOUS comedy plays. The Play That Goes Wrong, and A Comedy About A Bank Robbery. Both times I've near wet myself laughing
I used to go to plays a lot in London until about 7 or 8 years ago, but it's just too expensive now. I live in the Midlands so I'm used to cheaper prices for things in general.
I tried so hard to find an abandoned tunnel tour while I was in London... asked directions, googled, asked the tourist information center, walked just about the length and width of the city center, but didn't find anything.
So thanks for the link! If England somehow manages not to explode and sink into the ocean, it might be of use to me yet ^_^
On a side note, I adored the RAF museum. Only regret I have is not taking more pictures there.
You've got to go to Brixton covered market, Pop Brixton, Brixton Academy, and the other markets and places around it! There is so much going on there, this like the Camden of south London and people north of the river don't go there enough
I'm always impressed how well you guys (often Tom) will know enough about American culture so that when you're talking about something thoroughly British, we can still relate to it. Either that or our stuff is shouted out so hard that you can't help but know about it, in which case I apologize. (Specifically referencing Legends of the Hidden Temple here.)
Tom knows his demographics he does. He pays more attention to you buggers than his own countrymen and the Commonwealth!
I am watching this 5 years later and thinking that Matt and Tom really haven't changed it is hard to tell when it was from unless you look. I would love to see some out of the way places in London, less busy and cheap!
Museum of London is well known enough - but right round the corner from it is Postman's Park - a tranquil and really moving spot with dedications to heroic self-sacrifice. It takes five minutes to visit but is really poignant. Highly recommended.
+MrMale1729 Definitely agree! I was genuinely quite moved by some of the dedications.
Hampstead Heath is brilliant on a sunny day with lots of kite flyers on Parliament Hill - also there's a great little crepe stand in Hampstead - tube station is nice also
please note with the underground old stations you have to walk up and down stairs there are no lifts or esclaters if you don't have full mobility
Not sure, being a northener, whether the Regency Cafe is considered famous or not. If not, then I would say that's the biggest food recommendation. The original Twining's Tea Shop in Temple is also a really cool place to visit if you happen to be a fan of the Great British Beverage (And it's near the temple, St. Clement's and the Royal Courts of Justice, so overall a good visit). There's my contribution to the forum that this comments section has become!
I miss the park bench
Horniman Museum! Got friends on the Youth Panel for that. If you're a young person - I think it miiiiight extend into early-mid-twenties, but not sure - they put on great events yearly with local bands, disco rooms and the chance to roam around the Museum at night. They're usually free as well - highly recommend it :D
EDIT: Also, the South Bank is always lovely, especially at night - I've been on walks down there of an evening just for the sake of it. Shakespeare's Globe is also super awesome, and catch a play if you can (I thiiiiiiiink they do tickets at a reduced rate for students, and they certainly do if you're willing to be a groundling)
I'm watching this in 2017!! Mail Rail can now be visited!
I went to the computer museum at Bletchley Park on a school trip. Highly recommend it to anyone interested in old computers - it was an amazing day out!
We have similar tours and trips here in New York for the subway (been on plenty of those)and a museum in Philadelphia made their own sort of live "Legends of the Hidden Temple" event just last month. And they are making a movie based on it.
It's 2017 and this sounds awesome! My sisters living in the UK right now so I'll definitely tell her about this!
people watch darts on tv in germany too, i don't personally care about it, but it's definitely not just a thing in the uk.
+Noa Sama Same in the Netherlands!
I've stumbled upon one in the US. It's been a very long time but I remember watching it.
**scrolls down about ten screens worth**
...actually, no-one has named the park. Get on it, people.
I'm interested now
On a sunny day: Riverside walk east starting south of the river at battersea park, crossing over at Westminster bridge and then continuing on until tower bridge. Lush walk. Lush views. Positive vibes.
love the barbican, went to an exhibition on gaming there a couple of summers ago and thoroughly enjoyed it
If you need something to do in London I recommend Sky Garden. It is a excellent view. You just book it and it’s completely free. It’s at the top of a skyscraper and you can see everything in London!! It’s just opposite the Shard. I’d highly recommend it. Also if you want food I recommend Pizza Union. It’s a very good pizza place near Liverpool Street tube station (5 min walk) and it’s cheap and it’s the best pizza in London. Even the Italians believe so!
The Tour of Lord's cricket ground is great even my mum who knows very little about cricket enjoyed it
+Sam Clay Lords in a fantastic tour, especially for the cricket tragic. I did the tour and thoroughly enjoyed it.
If you enjoyed the Crystal Maze, you might also enjoy Boda Borg if you're ever in Sweden or near Boston, MA. It's a combination of physical and mental challenge rooms that sounds rather similar to what you're talking about.
Another good place to visit is the Faraday Museum at the Royal Institution in Albermarle street
The petrie museum, it's a UCL archaeology museum, it's tiny, but its well off the beaten track and the collection is fascinating.
darts is also watched somewhat in Holland. Not by me, or people I know t.b.h., but it's on tv regularly.
+Debries thats how it is in the UK tbh, only for people channel flicking on sky sports
+Debries Of course, because otherwise how would 'Barney' have started his career? :-)
Yes, it is watched in the Netherlands indeed. And although not that many people watch it, a great deal of them might have heard of 'Barney'.
I personally like it for the madness of the audience too. It's like carnival.
but I dont, I prefer watching that game with a green table, balls and holes on the edges(Yeah I dont even remember the name).
+Gaming with scissors I assume you mean snooker.
Tom, If you are going to talk about Bletchley Park, you really should mention the unsung hero Tommy Flowers. Without whom the war might have taken a different course.
hey, I'm watching his and it's 2017! crazy world this is, mate
Food recommendation- the flat iron, Covent Garden. Can’t book but the best steak for a tenner you will ever have
Haha u said the crystal maze and my eyes widened and I smiled XD such a good show
The secret bars in london are amazing, they are normally on quiet streets and very unexpected.