The Best London Experiences

I have been to London many times, I wrote a blog a while back about the play Ghost Walk I so a couple of years ago and this has to have been the best trip, but here are some other highlights I recommend.

London Bridge Experience

This has to be the scariest of all horror tours and believe me I have been to many, including the dungeons in York and London.

First you tour around some horrific rooms depicting the worst of London's history including The Gun Powder Plot, Jack The Ripper, The Plague and The Great Fire of London, naturally.

Then you are taken through some scary rooms in a conga style with other tourists, however they have real actors coming up close and personal to scare you to death with things dropping from the ceiling a dungeon with a huge spider in and people wrapped up in cobwebs (weird), but the most frightening is the last room. Based on the Texas chain saw massacre you walk through this creepy butchers room then from nowhere this bloke runs out waving a real chainsaw about your head. I could even smell the petrol from the chainsaw. It was truly frightening and exhilarating.

Jack The Ripper Tour

This is great. A nighttime walk through Whitechapel as the guide takes you to each of the spots where the grisly murders of prostitutes were committed by the unidentified serial killer of Old London Town. Creepy and spine chilling.

Of Course I am a bit strange and love to have the beejeeze scared out of me.

Late Night Rickshaw Ride

This was absolutely hilarious. We had been partying around Leicester Square and couldn't get a taxi back to the hotel for love no money, so I had a brainwave and asked a Rickshaw rider to take us back to our hotel south of the Thames at two in the morning. Try to imagine two merry ladies scoffing kebabs on the back of this little carriage whilst watching a very fit tight little man bum bobbing up and down and side to side on the bike in front of us.

A black cab pulled up next to us at the traffic lights and fours blokes wound down the window and said very seriously. "Err excuse me love, but you appear to have lost the engine in your cab!" Naturally me and my friend found the funny side, I guess the bud helped. Anyway great fun and a different way to experience what would have been an embarrassing experience in daylight.

Hyde Park Speakers Corner

This is something I have always wanted to do... Heckle with a fanatical religious nut in Speakers Corner on a Sunday morning in Hyde Park. When we arrived there was just two speakers,one was a guy making everyone laugh about his anti religious notions and attempting to blaspheme on a holy day. Then there were two Muslims promoting very peacefully that Jesus, Moses and Mohamed were all basically promoting the same religious message, which is something I am very comfortable with despite being an atheist myself,but for those who follow organised religion I thought this was a very positive message to send out to people. Everything looked quite uneventful until the religious Christian nut showed up. Set himself up next to the Muslim table and began to preach that the Koran promoted fear and tyrannical law, which isn't true.

My friend being a Muslim and me just being me decided to challenge said Nut Ball. His arguments were weak saying that the Bible spoke the truth, until I pointed out that The spoken word of the man Jesus from Two Thousand years ago was spoken in Aramaic and the New Testament was written more than two hundred years later and has been translated from Latin to Old English to Modern English and so many times that the original words were probably long lost and none of us could possibly know exactly what Jesus said.

Then someone else stepped forward giving a much more eloquent theological argument than me, but I was shocked to see that a huge crowd had circled around us several people deep. I suddenly felt very shy and decided that although the heckling was fun I felt uncomfortable with and audience. When we returned with our coffees we quietly stood at the back when this girl looked at me then whispered to her group of friends "Hey that's the two women arguing with the guy." As they all looked me and my friend up and down I decided it was time to leave, but not before feeling a great sense of accomplishment.

Go to London Its fun... Oh and for a freebie delight The British Museum is a must. Go and get lost in the ancient artifacts, I saw the Rosetta Stone, something I always wanted to see with my own eyes and was on loan at the time. Big Bonus. Or There is nothing quite like sitting in the library, just sit and people watch!!