London Updated

[scuba guy]

8 hours ago, Virgil said:

Sitting at Kings Cross station waiting for the train to Paris.  Lots of Bills fans here 

Did you see Harry Potter 

[Fleezoid]

8 hours ago, Virgil said:

Sitting at Kings Cross station waiting for the train to Paris.  Lots of Bills fans here 

 

Man, I am so jealous. 

 

go to the top of the Arc de Triomphe and watch the traffic circle. That's entertainment right there. 

[Peter]

1 hour ago, The Wiz said:

 

 

 

 

Go Bills!!!

 

COYG!!!

[BillsFanNC]

Dublin earlier this week...plenty of Bills fans. Galway yesterday and today. London tomorrow. 

 

Go Bills!

[Wayne Cubed]

2 hours ago, Kirby Jackson said:

That was my thought.  We are staying by the London Bridge. It’s a long enough ride from there to begin with. I was thinking that I’d have a car take us right from there to the airport. 

 

I assume you mean your own transport from your hotel to Gatwick? Uber is always an option, but it's quite the trek out to Gatwick depending on traffic. What day are you doing it because it can take 2 hours sometimes by car to get to Gatwick, getting out of London?

[Matt_In_NH]

3 hours ago, Kirby Jackson said:

We are staying by the London Bridge

Did it fall?

[CNYfan]

Tubes are running fine.  Once you get to London it will be fun.  

AirBnB isn't what it used to be

Just in from Scotland.   The transit is amazingly efficient 

[Kirby Jackson]

2 hours ago, Wayne Cubed said:

 

I assume you mean your own transport from your hotel to Gatwick? Uber is always an option, but it's quite the trek out to Gatwick depending on traffic. What day are you doing it because it can take 2 hours sometimes by car to get to Gatwick, getting out of London?

Monday

 

I was thinking of bringing all of our stuff out to Stonehenge and going right from there. It may not work but that was the thought.

[GunnerBill]

8 minutes ago, Kirby Jackson said:

Monday

 

I was thinking of bringing all of our stuff out to Stonehenge and going right from there. It may not work but that was the thought.

 

Yea I'd hire a car for the day and try and do so off a firm who have a depot at Gatwick. That way you can drive out early morning to Windsor, then go on to Bath and Stonehenge and never need to come back in to London to get to Gatwick (can just go across the bottom on the M25). 

 

If you want to go IN to Windsor Castle your issue is it doesn't open until 10. Say you got in at 10, came out at about 11.30 and dove to Bath.... that is about 1hr 45... so you are in Bath at 1.15pm. You could have lunch, wander round Bath for a bit... leave there at 3.30pm drive to Stonehenge... that is about an hour. You are there at half 4, walk around and see it for half an hour (there isn't a ton to see) and then jump back in the car at 5 and head to Gatwick you should be there for about 6.45..... but that relies on not much traffic holding you up and it is TIGHT. 

 

The other way is you hire a car and leave early (like 7am) and drive the 2 hours or so from London straight to Stonehenge.... and then you could start your sightseeing there at say 9am and then hop up to Bath have an earlier lunch then do Windsor Castle last.... (think it closes at 5 but you'd need to be in there by say 3....) and then head to Gatwick. 

[Augie]

3 hours ago, Wayne Cubed said:

 

I assume you mean your own transport from your hotel to Gatwick? Uber is always an option, but it's quite the trek out to Gatwick depending on traffic. What day are you doing it because it can take 2 hours sometimes by car to get to Gatwick, getting out of London?

 

We had a driver pick us up at our Rome hotel at 6am and he drove us to Sorrento, which is about a 3 hour drive. We left him to kill time there and took a boat with a few other couples (one guy in a Bills shirt, and we immediately hit it off) to take a lap around Capri then spend the day there.  The driver was a great guy and he killed time until we were done, showing us the sights coming and going. We didn’t get back to the hotel in Rome until about 10pm. LONG day, longer than anyone expected. His tip went way up when we realized that we could not have accomplished that without some local help.

 

Sometimes you just have to pay to make it happen, or go to plan B. 

[Repulsif]

any change for the after game meeting ?

Last time I checked (several weeks ago), The "wapping tavern" was setted

[Virgil]

7 hours ago, scuba guy said:

Did you see Harry Potter 

Tomorrow 

[CNYfan]

Tubes are running fine.  Once you get to London it will be fun.  

AirBnB isn't what it used to be

What channel is the TNF Football game on?

[eball]

Anyone know which hotel the Bills are staying at?

[716]

Just landed about an hour ago, heading into London now. We flew out of Dulles yesterday evening, and tons of Bills fans on the plane and at the airport upon arrival. Can't wait to get in and around the city.

Edited October 6, 2023 by 716

[GunnerBill]

I helped a young couple in Bills gear work out where they were going at Westminster tube last night. 

 

I'm basically a hero.

[Belgium_Bill]

17 hours ago, BritBill said:

Clark Griswold and family left London and stopped off at Stonehenge on their way to the airport. Lord knows which airport they were off to.

It's been a few decades since I lived in the UK, not too far from Stonehenge in fact, so I wasn't aware of the new development of Plymouth International Airport. 😁

[Beast]

I thought we’d get some photos from you guys. Step your game up!

[BritBill]

3 hours ago, GunnerBill said:

I helped a young couple in Bills gear work out where they were going at Westminster tube last night. 

 

I'm basically a hero.

How much you charge them?

[Augie]

12 hours ago, CNYfan said:

Tubes are running fine.  Once you get to London it will be fun.  

AirBnB isn't what it used to be

What channel is the TNF Football game on?

 

I got in just about 24 hours ago and took the Heathrow Express to Paddington then a short walk to the hotel. The walk gave me time to dry off. It was hot as  hell on the train and everyone stripped down as much as they could, but we were all sweating buckets! I’ve come out of the shower with my hair less wet. We then stepped out into 50-something degree weather which was an initial relief, but then a bit brisk. It was easy, but certainly not comfortable.  Enough whining….

 

Our car was about 80% in Bills gear, then there was one nice young couple in Jags gear. This gave me two main thoughts:

 

1) I LOVE how Bills fans travel! There are other teams that travel well, but nobody is better than Bills fans. 

2) I wish opposing fans could get along in a stadium as well as they do on a hot train. Unfortunately, you add alcohol and the heat of battle, and things turn sad too often. Let’s all go have fun and behave, win or lose. It is, after all, a game. 

 

 

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Edited October 6, 2023 by Augie