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In an effort to clear the last item from my bucket list, I am going to be visiting London in early August staying near the Paddington station. It just so happens that I have an entire day free and looking for something or several somethings to see that day. Afraid that I will consume the entire day in the British Museum and not have time for anything else. I am already going to Westminster, St. Pauls, Windsor, Stonehenge, the Eye. Maybe the Sherlock museum? I am mainly interested in historical things to see.
Any ideas?
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One place I can think of if you are into Historical things is the Science Museum & the Imperial War Museum
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Also the V&A is opposite the Science Museum and the Natural History Museum is round the corner.
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Erm...you do realize Stonehenge is not in London?
It's in the middle of a field, about 90 miles / 140Km from London and takes about 2 hours each way by car (once you are clear of London itself, which is likely to take another hour).
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Most Americans do not realised how far distances are in the UK (or how awkward things are), I do recall one American at work wanting to see something in Scotland and having to told it was his plane home or thing was not happy. Also is there a Sherlock Holmes museum? So there is well I'll be thank you Google
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glennPattonBackInThePUB wrote: Also is there a Sherlock Holmes museum?
Yup, 221/b Baker Street, not kidding  been there loved that.
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Just Googled it, I was under the impression it was a (221 Baker Street) was a Bank branch, As I did have a receipt for £5 that I had out of the cash point there many moons ago!
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Well, the first place I put foot on London's ground was exactly in front of the Sherlock Holmes museum, as the bus from the airport dropped us there 
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Why am I not surprised!
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The head office of the Abbey National Building Society used to be at that address; I worked there in the 70s. And we had frequent visits from Americans who wanted to know "did Sherlock Holmes really live here?". Duh, should have been the response. However, in the spirit of "the customer is always right", we had some leaflets to hand out with lots of useful details about the great man. Strangely the detail that he was a fictional character was not included.
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That's why I mentioned it: it's like an American assuming that Vegas is "next door" to LA, so they can drive there in 20 minutes... 
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One of our US clients lived in South LA and used to go to Vegas for weekends. Having been there myself once was enough!! 
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Yes, thanks. I know that.
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You'd be surprised how many people don't!
Americans and Japanese mostly: for some reason many of them assume that you can cross Europe in any direction in an hour or so by car...
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Yeah I get the all the time here. People come to Washington DC, see the sites and think that you can just hop in a car and drive the Grand Canyon and be back in time for dinner. Most don't realize that it takes hours just to drive out of Texas in any direction from where I live.
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OriginalGriff wrote: takes about 2 hours each way
We have motor cars in England, Welshboy, so it takes nowhere near that (I'ts an hour drive from Portsmouth), guess it's slightly shorter from StoneHenge.
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Clearly you're a man who never tried to use the A303 on a regular basis!
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OriginalGriff wrote: the A303
Aaarrghh! 
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Yep!
A friend of mine used to deliver church organs for a living and he got a mention on BBC radio traffic news for causing a four hour tail back on the 303 when the brakes on his fully loaded van locked on.
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To be fair it has improved slightly since they closed off that right turn into Stonehenge. I have to use it to get from my place (Woking) to Falmouth when visiting number 1 son. And I only do that to go to the Oyster Festival in October, if I can avoid other times.
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But if you're heading down that way, anyway, you could drive on and hit the National Motor Museum in Beaulieu. It's not that much further.
But if you stop and ask for directions, don't pronounce Beaulieu as if it were French. No one will know what the heck you're talking about.
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How can you be on the last item in your bucket list. The whole idea behind a bucket list is that it NEVER gets empty.
You have yet to swim with Great White Sharks with freakin lazer beams, I'm sure.
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Well, it all depends on whether the bucket started out half-empty, or half-full... 
The United States invariably does the right thing, after having exhausted every other alternative. -Winston Churchill
America is the only country that went from barbarism to decadence without civilization in between. -Oscar Wilde
Wow, even the French showed a little more spine than that before they got their sh*t pushed in.[^] -Colin Mullikin
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There's a hole in my bucket ...
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