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Chris wrote:"The o2" just sounds really naff.

it will always be the millennium dome to me 8)

mikejprz wrote:with the Troc at Picadilly Circus about to be gutted and sold off I guess that kind of place has to go somewhere - at least all the chav and scallys can hang round there instead and let Greenwich deal with them.

The Troccadero has gone very downhill so a refrub is needed.

At one stage it had a "James Bond-Tommorrow Never Dies" theme ride/attraction, SEGA World up stairs & several other places of interest. One good thign it used to have in the early 1990's was the "Guinness World Of Records" exibition which had a model of the "tallest man in the world".

Unfortunately as you say it has Chav's in it now

I haven't been to London since August 1997. Just 3 days before Diana was murdered.

I don't have any reason to visit the shithole which is London, though. Cardiff is far nicer and cosy.

Jamez wrote:I haven't been to London since August 1997. Just 3 days before Diana was murdered.

I don't have any reason to visit the shithole which is London, though. Cardiff is far nicer and cosy.

I would be offended but you're quite right. Places like the Westend, Kensington, Regents Park, etc. are nice but places like Seven Sisters, Elephant & Castle and Plaistow let it down big time.

Johnny wrote:

Jamez wrote:I haven't been to London since August 1997. Just 3 days before Diana was murdered.

I don't have any reason to visit the shithole which is London, though. Cardiff is far nicer and cosy.

I would be offended but you're quite right. Places like the Westend, Kensington, Regents Park, etc. are nice but places like Seven Sisters, Elephant & Castle and Plaistow let it down big time.

No, the fact that in the eastend, you can be shot dead if you take more than 4 seconds to pull away from green traffic lights.

Also, the fact that a huge proportion of Londoners are foreign and hardly speak English.

Jamez wrote:

Johnny wrote:

Jamez wrote:I haven't been to London since August 1997. Just 3 days before Diana was murdered.

I don't have any reason to visit the shithole which is London, though. Cardiff is far nicer and cosy.

I would be offended but you're quite right. Places like the Westend, Kensington, Regents Park, etc. are nice but places like Seven Sisters, Elephant & Castle and Plaistow let it down big time.

No, the fact that in the eastend, you can be shot dead if you take more than 4 seconds to pull away from green traffic lights.

Also, the fact that a huge proportion of Londoners are foreign and hardly speak English.

Again I agree with you, Wapping is about the only "safe place" in East London & that's because it is next to the City, SHadwell & Shoreditch just north of it (both E1 like Wapping) are right dives.

The dome is in Greenwich SE10 (looked up on Google) which is actually a nice area of London

BTW Cardiff is quite nice I was there for a cousins wedding back in 1997. We stayed in a hotel that was V shaped (i think) & Cardiff Arms Park Statdium was one side of it & a church was the other side, do you know that hotel at all Jamez

Johnny wrote:

Jamez wrote:

Johnny wrote: I would be offended but you're quite right. Places like the Westend, Kensington, Regents Park, etc. are nice but places like Seven Sisters, Elephant & Castle and Plaistow let it down big time.

No, the fact that in the eastend, you can be shot dead if you take more than 4 seconds to pull away from green traffic lights.

Also, the fact that a huge proportion of Londoners are foreign and hardly speak English.

Again I agree with you, Wapping is about the only "safe place" in East London & that's because it is next to the City, SHadwell & Shoreditch just north of it (both E1 like Wapping) are right dives.

The dome is in Greenwich SE10 (looked up on Google) which is actually a nice area of London

BTW Cardiff is quite nice I was there for a cousins wedding back in 1997. We stayed in a hotel that was V shaped (i think) & Cardiff Arms Park Statdium was one side of it & a church was the other side, do you know that hotel at all Jamez

Cardiff has changed so much since 1997, I don't know which hotel!

Since 1997 the following buildings have popped up in Cardiff:

Millennium Stadium
BT Building (tallest building in Wales - next to the stadium)
National Assembly
Millennium Opera/Arts centre
Lots and lots of new clubs/bars/restaurants in the city centre and down by the bay

The Hilton hotel opposite the Civic Centre is kinda V-shaped, but that's more of a curve.

Jamez wrote:

Johnny wrote:

Jamez wrote: No, the fact that in the eastend, you can be shot dead if you take more than 4 seconds to pull away from green traffic lights.

Also, the fact that a huge proportion of Londoners are foreign and hardly speak English.

Again I agree with you, Wapping is about the only "safe place" in East London & that's because it is next to the City, SHadwell & Shoreditch just north of it (both E1 like Wapping) are right dives.

The dome is in Greenwich SE10 (looked up on Google) which is actually a nice area of London

BTW Cardiff is quite nice I was there for a cousins wedding back in 1997. We stayed in a hotel that was V shaped (i think) & Cardiff Arms Park Statdium was one side of it & a church was the other side, do you know that hotel at all Jamez

Cardiff has changed so much since 1997, I don't know which hotel!

Since 1997 the following buildings have popped up in Cardiff:

Millennium Stadium
BT Building (tallest building in Wales - next to the stadium)
National Assembly
Millennium Opera/Arts centre
Lots and lots of new clubs/bars/restaurants in the city centre and down by the bay

The Hilton hotel opposite the Civic Centre is kinda V-shaped, but that's more of a curve.

The roads seem to go form it diagonally It was North of the Cardiff Arms Park Stadium but as you say it probably is a different name now.

Johnny wrote:BTW Cardiff is quite nice I was there for a cousins wedding back in 1997. We stayed in a hotel that was V shaped (i think) & Cardiff Arms Park Statdium was one side of it & a church was the other side, do you know that hotel at all Jamez

The roads seem to go form it diagonally It was North of the Cardiff Arms Park Stadium but as you say it probably is a different name now.

do we care which hotel you once stayed at in cardiff?

Jamez wrote:Cardiff has changed so much since 1997.

You'll have to show me the new bits!

Didn't realise The Empire Pool had gone till I did the research for the other thread.

I think these plans are brilliant!


...and the inside looks amazing too!

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