What's local that you like to do or would like to but haven't done?
I'm heading to Washington DC to check out museums, I quite like museums.
I mostly want to see art and history, National Gallery of Art, National Portrait Gallery, United States Holocaust Museum and The Museum of the American Indian.
( Lisette von Falcon, Mon 19 Apr 2010, 16:48, 50 replies, latest was 16 years ago)

There's a free art gallery I walk past every day.
I've only been in it once.
(PsychoChomp, Mon 19 Apr 2010, 16:51, Reply)

you should go in it everyday

( Lisette von Falcon, Mon 19 Apr 2010, 16:53, Reply)

Meh, I walk past it on the way into/home from work.
I can't go in before work or I'll be late, and on the way home I'm not usually in the mood for culture.
(PsychoChomp, Mon 19 Apr 2010, 16:55, Reply)

The National Portrait Gallery is well worth visit
(The Smithsonian Gem collection is also amazing).
(MichaelS wasn't picked again, Mon 19 Apr 2010, 17:02, Reply)

I've never been to the Cornell University campus.
It's in a beautiful area, and they have an ornithology museum there that I've heard is wonderful, but somehow I've never made it.
( Wanderer, Mon 19 Apr 2010, 17:02, Reply)

I've been there!
They've got a cool high-rise building with a great view of the Finger lakes (possibly just the Cayuga - it was about 8 years ago now and my memory is flaky).
( djtrialprice, Mon 19 Apr 2010, 17:17, Reply)

My sister works there.
It's really a fascinating place, from what she's told me. Apparently they heat and cool the buildings using geothermal heat, kind of, by pumping water from deep within the lake and running it through heat pumps. Very efficient and environmentally friendly, as the loop that goes to the building is separate from the lake water so the lake water cannot be contaminated by anything. That still doesn't stop the local hippies/fluffbunnies from protesting that somehow Cornell is doing something wrong.

They also have a great veterinary school there, so any time there's a strange livestock disease or a three headed animal born it's sent there for study.

Add to that the fact that my grandfather used to work for them, and I really have no good excuse for not going and poking around the place...
( Wanderer, Mon 19 Apr 2010, 17:38, Reply)

I don't go here often enough
maps.google.co.uk/maps?f=q&hl=en&q=bridford&ie=UTF8&hq=&hnear=Bridford,+Exeter,+Devon,+United+Kingdom&ll=50.631607,-3.68351&spn=0.084713,0.222988&z=13&layer=c&cbll=50.641964,-3.68875&panoid=PCdoThtqWT3FZS6nwHr2Fg&cbp=12,322.68,,0,5
( Vipros. clever got me this far, then tricky got me in, Mon 19 Apr 2010, 17:05, Reply)

I love going punting
Easy romance points FTW
( djtrialprice, Mon 19 Apr 2010, 17:09, Reply)

You sure suckered me in

(Bazongaloid, Mon 19 Apr 2010, 17:12, Reply)

Just a few points more
and I'm handing my vouchers in for a bumming
( djtrialprice, Mon 19 Apr 2010, 17:15, Reply)

You've got it bad old boy.
You'll be baying at the moon next.
( Bartleby A dead man on vacation, Mon 19 Apr 2010, 17:14, Reply)

you talking to me or al?
He's got it reeeeeally bad. So bad his neck hurts.
( djtrialprice, Mon 19 Apr 2010, 17:16, Reply)

You.
There is no hope for Al, but you could just recover.
( Bartleby A dead man on vacation, Mon 19 Apr 2010, 17:17, Reply)

"No...
it's too late for me my son."
( djtrialprice, Mon 19 Apr 2010, 17:18, Reply)

Oh Dear, another male is ensnared and brought low.

( Bartleby A dead man on vacation, Mon 19 Apr 2010, 17:20, Reply)

My females friends don't like the way
I respond to every announcement that a male friend is engaged with, "*sniff* Another good man down." Especially if they're the bride to be. And I say to their face.
( djtrialprice, Mon 19 Apr 2010, 17:21, Reply)

It doesn't stop you saying though.
Good, there is hope for you. Just be careful.
( Bartleby A dead man on vacation, Mon 19 Apr 2010, 17:26, Reply)

I can see the Tate gallery from here
Never bin.
( I have run out of coke is a little sweaty, Mon 19 Apr 2010, 17:10, Reply)

Which one?
And go and visit it.
( Bartleby A dead man on vacation, Mon 19 Apr 2010, 17:12, Reply)

don't bother with the St Ives one. it's shit

( Vipros. clever got me this far, then tricky got me in, Mon 19 Apr 2010, 17:15, Reply)

True
Modern of Britain?
( Bartleby A dead man on vacation, Mon 19 Apr 2010, 17:16, Reply)

the one
( djtrialprice, Mon 19 Apr 2010, 17:18, Reply)

I agree with that.
Full of wankers
( Bartleby A dead man on vacation, Mon 19 Apr 2010, 17:20, Reply)

I could go to the British Museum once a week and not get tired of it.
Similarly the British Library. As it is I only go every couple of years. I'd like to visit the Sir John Soane Museum which I've never done, and there's a Hugenot house in Spitalfields I have never been to. Apparently the Freemasons' HQ now takes occasional visitors - it's supposed to be supremely opulent but supremely vulgar with it. I'd like to see that.
( Monty Boyce, My cheese game is strong, Mon 19 Apr 2010, 17:31, Reply)

As usual Monty, you are easy to agree with.
For the most vulgar decoration in the world, visit one of the many homes owned by the Rothschilds. Boy do they like gold plated cherubs. Wadesdon Manor is the only home I have been kicked out of for laughing and pointing at the crap.
( Bartleby A dead man on vacation, Mon 19 Apr 2010, 17:37, Reply)

Haha that's precisely the sort of thing that would happen to me.

( Monty Boyce, My cheese game is strong, Mon 19 Apr 2010, 17:48, Reply)

Gibraltar and Portugal
both less than an hours drive, been saying I'll go for the last year now.

Mind you, I don't even own an car.
( broadsword, Mon 19 Apr 2010, 17:49, Reply)

where are you based?
and how do you even drive to gibraltar?

i got andorra and the pyrenees a couple of hours north of me - if i could be assed walking ten minutes to the train station
(bamboozled Can hear you getting fatter, Mon 19 Apr 2010, 17:55, Reply)

You drive to Gibraltar
in either a car, van or lorry. You could take a motorcycle I suppose.
( JeffTheDogFucker Can you dig it?, Mon 19 Apr 2010, 17:57, Reply)

ah
i should really know this kind of thing.


but i'm probably never gonna go there anyways
(bamboozled Can hear you getting fatter, Mon 19 Apr 2010, 18:05, Reply)

South of Spain
you drive to Gibraltar in a car. Hence my lack of a car being a bit of a hindrance to driving there.
( broadsword, Mon 19 Apr 2010, 17:57, Reply)

i like Spain

( Monty Boyce, My cheese game is strong, Mon 19 Apr 2010, 17:58, Reply)

i like breasts

( broadsword, Mon 19 Apr 2010, 17:59, Reply)

i like Spanish breasts

( Monty Boyce, My cheese game is strong, Mon 19 Apr 2010, 18:04, Reply)

i second this




fuck me a MASSIVE storm has just come in off the sea - and I've got to go home in it
(bamboozled Can hear you getting fatter, Mon 19 Apr 2010, 18:09, Reply)

Gibraltar.
Like Filey with chimpanzees.

Only go if you are desperate to see a British Bobby, or have a yearning to see a telephone box.
( JeffTheDogFucker Can you dig it?, Mon 19 Apr 2010, 17:56, Reply)

The splashboat in the local park.
I went on with my daughter last summer when it was celebrating its 80th "birthday" and realised that my previous go had been over half its lifetime ago.
(Cave Duck, Mon 19 Apr 2010, 18:02, Reply)

There are loads of local resturants that I want to visit that I haven't, one of them being just behind my house, it's been open for 6 months now.
Plus loads of michallin-star stuff in london.

I'd quite like a go on the London Eye too.
( G/PP 💩💩💩💩💩&#128, Mon 19 Apr 2010, 18:16, Reply)

And the London Dungon, that looks awesome.
I'd like to go on one of their adult's nights.
( G/PP 💩💩💩💩💩&#128, Mon 19 Apr 2010, 18:17, Reply)

The fanciest restaurant I've been to was in the hotel I stayed at with Syncubus in Washington DC.
and it wasn't even dress up fancy, but it was swank.
( Lisette von Falcon, Mon 19 Apr 2010, 18:20, Reply)

Do you still speak to him? What's he up to these days?
I've heard how charming he can be in private chat, but you have to admit, that can't have been your proudest of exes.

When you finally get down here, we'll go visit one of Ramsey's places, every 6 months or so I get bored and spend a whole day going through every single one of his (london) resturant's menus and choosing. I did that last week, I forgot the resturant I chose, but I decided on having

- Beatroot and Horseraddish hash thinggy with fresh smoked macreal
- Veal and Fois Gras burger and chips
- Banoffee Something-or-other.
( G/PP 💩💩💩💩💩&#128, Mon 19 Apr 2010, 18:26, Reply)

No I don't, in fact I deleted him from my facebook. And he isn't an ex. We were never together.
I tried my best to believe in him as a friend but he constantly put me down and I don't want or need anyone like that in my life.
( Lisette von Falcon, Mon 19 Apr 2010, 18:35, Reply)

Ahh, fair enough, good on you.

( G/PP 💩💩💩💩💩&#128, Mon 19 Apr 2010, 18:42, Reply)

Every time I go up to the Sierra's, I always pass Manzanar.
It was an internment camp for Japanese Americans during WWII and I keep meaning to go there. Maybe I will on Friday.

www.nps.gov/manz/index.htm
( Batshitmentalist is sane for once, Mon 19 Apr 2010, 18:33, Reply)

I'm not going to any of the Tourist attractions here.
But I've only been to the British Museum twice (SHAME ON ME I'M LETTING DOWN THE DEPARTMENT), no V and A, I live walking distance from the Tate Modern, not been to the birds with guitars installation either :(

I'm crap at culture. I spend a lot of time in Trafalgar Square, usually in the small hours of Wednesday morning walking home pissed from Madame JoJos.


I've been to the Hat Museum in my home town though!
( Lampito rise with the moon, go to bed with the sun, Mon 19 Apr 2010, 18:54, Reply)

to hell with London
support your own city, that's what I say
(bamboozled Can hear you getting fatter, Mon 19 Apr 2010, 19:00, Reply)

I live in London for most of the time, and will be for the forseeable future
(provided I don't fail this year)

I love it. I still love Manchester though.
( Lampito rise with the moon, go to bed with the sun, Mon 19 Apr 2010, 19:04, Reply)

wots Madame Jojos?

( Lisette von Falcon, Mon 19 Apr 2010, 19:02, Reply)

Club in Soho
indie on Tuesdays, trannies on Wednesdays.

It's amazing.
( Lampito rise with the moon, go to bed with the sun, Mon 19 Apr 2010, 19:04, Reply)