The Scene returned to London to spend the day with superstar photographer David Bailey. What's your favorite David Bailey photograph? Do you prefer the Streets' London or Dylan Jones's London? And where do you hang out in the English capital? Send us your suggestions and ideas and read your comments below.
• From: Joao Martinho Moura, London • Posted: Nov. 22, 2006 • Comment: I was in London last week. Here are some pictures I shoot in the city: www.london-photo.org
• From: Rik Efron, The Hague, The Netherlands • Posted: Nov. 7, 2006 • Comment: True.. London is nice. It is large and it has a lot of history, but nothing compares to beautiful The Hague (Netherlands). Everything London has, The Hague has too.. (exept for driving left), but The Hague has more.. for instance the Beach.
The Hague has wonderful green parks, fantastic old and 19th century areas, it has a modern area, it has canals, it's own "Tower" (Prison gate), wonderful museums, superb downtown area's, a delightful 1884 Passage (Gallery).. The most beautiful city in the world
I love to go to London (will be there in 2007 for the Tall Women Event), but I love returning to The Hague afterwards even more !
• From: Ana, Ft.Lauderdale, FL • Posted: Nov. 6, 2006 • Comment: Nothing compares to London. A sunday morning hanging out in Candem Market tasting world food, the Tate Modern and Theater makes this city the best.
• From: Mary, Brighton, England • Posted: Nov. 3, 2006 • Comment: Ok Daren, it might be a bit dirty, but London is far from boring - anyone who gets bored in London is bored of life, as Samuel Johnson said. I love the vegetarian Indian restaurants on Drummond Street (behind Euston station) and the less high profile exhibitions at Tate Modern, especially the photography, are really cool. (So is the shop.) But my favourite London thing is to walk along the South Bank and catch a Waterloo sunset.
• From: Daren; Texas • Posted: June 6, 2006 • Comment: Lived there most of my life. It is a smelly, dirty, expensive, and boring city. Try New York instead!
• From: Linda Kenny; New Brunswick , Canada • Posted: May 25, 2006 • Comment: The Crown Jewels, St.Paul's and Portobello Rd. are not to be missed.
• From: Heather; Chicago, IL • Posted: May 11, 2006 • Comment: London is my second home! Everyone checks out the tourist sites the first time, but then get off the beaten path. You can learn more from the local pub than in any book. Speaking of which, definitely check out "The Good Mixer" in Camden while you're shopping the markets. If you like "The Streets", check out "Roots Manuva." They gave a kick-ass performance in Kentish Town last fall.
• From: Irene Maier; London • Posted: May 5, 2006 • Comment: Just the coolest!
• From: Doug Jones; Atlanta, Georgia • Posted: Apr. 21, 2006 • Comment: I worked in London for about 6 months last year (2005). I figured out a way to get a temporary work visa for the UK because I was a student and I just bought a ticket and went. I went by myself and found a job and an apartment easily.
I didn't care for London at first and wondered what all the fuss was about. Everyone said it's too expensive and old, blah blah blah is all I have to say after I figured out my place there.
I am in Love Love with that city. Its like wonderful European cultures (the best of all of them) and the conviniences of Western Civilization along with liberal ideas and a bit of an exotic way of life mixed with English manners and its wonderful hummour are all in one city.
Its so easy to make friends in London if you are a happy person who likes personalities. I've never worked in a city where everyone longs for Friday so they can all take a trip to the pub after work to stand outside with a pint of beer and talk and enjoy the wonderful summer.
The clubs are wonderful, the shops and districts are one of a kind. A deal is around every corner and opportunities are everywhere.
The public transport is great, I had no problems with the busses.
It just seems like life is endless. If you want to, you can be a very lonely person there, and you can also be a person with wonderful friends all around you and opportunities flying at your head all day. I love it there and that city will always hold a special place in my heart because it proved to me that I am capable of living life and making the most of it. I lived life there instead of watching it pass by.
• From: Veronique Reynolds ; London, UK • Posted: Apr. 13, 2006 • Comment: Mike Skinner is from Birmingham...
• From: Don Lim; London, UK • Posted: Apr. 13, 2006 • Comment: This Londoner wants to offer his heartfelt thanks to CNN for showing the town he loves through the eyes of Mike Skinner - one of the best (albeit one of the craziest as well) artists Britain has to offer.
• From: John Lynch; Bauge, France • Posted: Apr. 10, 2006 • Comment: A prime candidate for Private Eye's (a satirical british magazine) Pseuds Corner. It says nothing that actually indicates the author has actually been. And for someone to adopt a "mockney" accent, why can't people just be themselves? (Personally I find people who adopt an affectation like a false accent to be hugely insulting and mostly very patronising) If you speak with an accent, then that's who you are.
• From: Ludmila A. Borisova; Belarus, Minsk • Posted: Mar. 23, 2006 • Comment: I chose London as the best European capital for culture because it is due to the fact that I happened to learn and read a lot about the UK. I am crasy about it. But at the same time I am absolutely sure that each of the above cities deserves to be called a unique one. The point is how a person accepts it and how he feels being in it. In each of them one can find spiritual inspiration:)
• From: John Walden; Pimlico • Posted: Mar. 20, 2006 • Comment: The many ethnic groups in London do not live "on top of each other"; most people just get on with their lives. The ethnic diversity here is a bonus!
The quote, "A few will find what they came for. The rest will establish whatever foothold they can and hold tight," applies for every city in the entire world, there's nothing different about London in this respect.
The one thing I agree on is that there is too much uncollected rubbish - but I really don't think this is a problem isolated to London. People generate waste - and how many collections per week are we prepared to pay for in our council tax?
His comment about "sink estates within yards of multimillion-dollar apartments" is an interesting one. It could also be rephrased as "the rich and the poor live close to each other with very few problems. I don't know what counts as a "sink estate", but I have lived in places where the rich live very close to the poor, and often the atmosphere is very friendly.
Saying "tuneless buskers" is just unfair. There are also tuneful ones. That's an empty complaint - you don't have to listen to them if you don't want to - you're unlikely to spend longer than about 15 minutes in a tube station anyway, and most of the time you won't be within earshot.
The final paragraph is just strange. So are we a family, or do we live on top of each other? Should we slow down our "frantic pace" in case "outsiders" misunderstand us? How about this, "Yet it is a world in which a myriad of life stories are unfolding in parallel on the same psychogeographical stage." This applies for any place in the world with more than myriad (10,000) people. It's an inane comment; you might as well say the same of any medium-sized town.
Really, everything about it seems to just be trying to put a negative slant on London, when the complaints are often invalid, or at best applicable to many, many other places that don't have as much going for them as London has.
• From: Ebuka; Gabon • Posted: Mar. 6, 2006 • Comment: i love how u people do their service
• From: Lynn VanHorn; Charlotte, NC • Posted: Feb. 15, 2006 • Comment: Very nice, quite informative about several choices in the area
• From: Joe Ritchie, Philadelphia, PA • Posted: Feb. 15, 2006 • Comment: Check out Jerusalem nightclub in Covent Garden...amazing atmosphere and great music! The balcony at Punch & Judy is great on a sunny afternoon for a cocktail and free show down below.
• From: Stewart Noble-Hendry; UK • Posted: Feb. 13, 2006 • Comment: My advice to tourists is:
a. Take a ferry trip down the Thames (with commentary) from Westminster to Greenwich and back.
b. Go on the London Eye with a camera -- the very best views of London.
c. Go to the National Art Gallery, the National Portrait Gallery and the Tate Britain Gallery. Forget the Tate Modern - it's appalling!
d. Go to the British Museum -- but you can't do it justice in one day.
e. Walk along the South Bank from Waterloo Station to Tower Bridge - great views of London and various pubs and restaurants on the way. You can pick up The Clink and The Globe on the way.
f. Visit the Clink -- the centuries old and awful prison which gave rise to the phrase 'being in clink'.
g. Near the Clink, visit Southwark Cathedral.
h. Visit the re-built (to original 16th century specifications) Globe Theatre on the South Bank, opened by Shakespeare originally. Try to catch a Shakespeare play while you are there.
i. Visit HMS Belfast, the last surviving cruiser from D-Day. Again, this is on the South Bank walk. Note that Waterloo Underground Station to Tower Bridge and back is a fair old hike.
j. Go to the Tower of London - a must for anyone interested in British history many centuries old. If there is one, take a guided tour.
• From: Julian Feldmann • Posted: Feb. 13, 2006 • Comment: The greatest city in Europe. Nice musicals, great night life!
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