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Meant to be going to London tomorrow
Me and my family are going on a break to London tomorrow until Saturday and I am just wondering if it is sensible bearing in mind what is going on with the riots. We are travelling to Victoria and staying in South Kensington. Most of the activities we are doing will be in central London and we are travelling back from St Pancras on Saturday. Basically I am just wanting advice on whether or not we should go and if we do go, are we likely to be safe. Thanks in advance.
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That was earlier, so things may have changed, but I'm being completely honest, if it were me I would still go as during the day and as I said before, the area you are in, there's no trouble.
Like Clapham you mean?
I'm supposed to be going Ealing thursday ......will be watching news next 2 days .........
...... interestingly, seems the police knew well in advance .... there was a dispersion order 3rd August! There's been one for central ealing for a while.
http://www.ealingtoday.co.uk/default.asp?section=info&page=eapitshangercrime002.htm
Indeed, the stock market is taking hammering as it is, mainly due to uncertainties with the US economy, so to have areas of the financial district of London go up in flames would be yet another nail in the coffin.
My girlfriend is coming down from Watford this saturday to Thanet for the day via the train, she will be starting out from Carpenders Park, obv going to Victoria then onto Ramsgate will she be safe? and is it advisable for her to come down? she did say South Oxhey where she lives have shut the precinct as apparently 500 are meeting up for a riot tonight.
I wish this rioting would stop now
The only problem would be if any part of her journey involves going through an area where rioting is taking place. If this is the case, alternative travel arrangements will be put in place wherever possible, which may add to journey times, but will usually not be chargeable on top of the 'standard' fares already in place.
Shouldn't be too bad its a straight run for her really, might be a bit of faffing about at Victoria getting the train down to here but tbh in my eyes she would be safer down here because no where in Thanet has there been any riots or looting due to the fact its a poor area, thats my take on it anyway either that or people actually have sense around here which surprises me.
They're not really, I left work at the usual time, although did have the option to leave whenever I wanted to.
Central London has been quiet tonight, and in daylight it's still as busy as usual.
So how did it go then?
What like Enfield town
Not all sink areas had problems either don't be so snobby
Last bit edited as didn't see it was a old thread
I got back from London in one piece on Saturday and I'm so glad I didn't let the riots put me off from going as I witnessed no trouble whatsoever in the areas I visited. The only thing I did see was a couple of damaged buildings in Sloane Square that looked like they could have been a target of the riots. I honestly couldn't have felt any safer in South Kensington as the accommodation we stayed in was being used as a base for the various Police forces so each morning we would get up to around 30 police vans parked on the site! All in all a great time was had. Thanks again for everybody's advice on this thread.
We're off to London this weekend, theatre at the Apollo and staying at the Cavendish, so right in the heart of the west End
Any good restaurant recomendations in the area? I know there's hundereds, would like to get some personal tips:)
I didn't see a sniff of any trouble and thankfully Ealing Broadway was open again early morning 09/08.
I had all my theatre tickets booked and I was determined the louts weren't going to ruin my trip! :mad:
No problem. You could easily pass through London and not have an inkling of any of the trouble going on at a ground level. The riots were bad obviously, but London is huge.