I hate the Tube and avoid it unless absolutely necessary. Buses are far better – and you do get to see stuff.

My old route is probably the premier route for sight seeing, and it now has the Borismaster on it, the 24.

Starts at the Royal Free next to Hampstead Heath, a nice little place full of cafe's goes through Camden, up to the West End via Tottenham Ct, Leicester Sq, Traf Sq, past Westminster, up to Victoria and ends in Pimlico next to the river right opposite Battersea power station.

If you're every going to 'just ride a route' definitely in the top 5

I know the one.
I've taken it from Victoria to Hampstead Heath (which is at its nicest in the month May, I think, because the leaves are at their greenest then).
A great place to wander see the view from Parliament Hill after a pint at The Flask (I assume it's still open) and, for the odder ones amongst us , maybe seek out the sources of some of London's hidden rivers.

There is an app for that too to get everyone on here frothing at the mouth once more.

Fine for app users, who I imagine prefer the tube to buses.
When I take a bus, I like to look out of the windows and enjoy the journey as a journey.
I'm guessing that app users would prefer to tippy-tap their screens way through the journey rather than look out of the window.
Or am I stereotyping?

Nothing to do with the topic but last week I bought a book "David Gentlemens London", he is a sketch artist with an architects eye, lots of very interesting ink and watercolour sketches of the sort of thing that I imagine you are looking at when you are staring out of your bus window, not the obvious tourist attractions but the varying architecture of London and its suburbs.

rlhttp://www.davidgentleman.com/rl

Some of his pictures put me in mind of Paul Hogarth RA (now deceased, sadly).
Are you familiar with his paintings?
Strikes me you'd like them.

Thanks for all the advice....got zones 1-6 on underground tickets due to having family railcard and all for £5-90 and getting to euston was a doddle.

Just had a look at his web site, there's some nice stuff on there, its funny how the simple lines are the most attractive.

I know we're going OT, but have you seen any of my mentions of Collioure artist Barry Blend? I'm going to be interviewing him while we're out there later this month.

Absolutely! I've described his work as a cross between pop art and stained glass. I'm rather thrilled tht he's so excited about doing an interview. Looking forward to it!

I was a user of both phone and map whilst in London for work. I started off with the map to get my general direction but then used the phone to get directions to and from my locations. The system is an easy one to understand but to someone not familiar with it then it can seem VERY daunting.

It just takes time to get used to like everything else, whichever method is easiest for each individual, dont hate them for using their devices!

Staying at Elstree on Wembley weekend.

Obv need to get to Wembley but also into central london for a touch of sight seeing on the sat am

Do we just get a daily travel card each (zones 1-6) and can that be used on all trains/tubes/buses.

2 adults, 2 x 12 year olds and 1 x 8 year old


cheers