Drive into London?

[okgo]

Evening.

Right, after mucking about with FX for the evening I am well and truly bored.

I have a car, unlimited fuel, and live on the outskirts of London what is worth driving to look at at night?

[shadowninja]

Head in the opposite direction. Dark, empty country roads...

[jamoor]

John o groats, although it won't be night by the time you get there.

[okgo]

shadowninja said:

Head in the opposite direction. Dark, empty country roads...

The car is far from exciting

Not to mention ice

Edited by okgo on Monday 27th October 22:45

[Maxf]

Sod all at the moment, but get here for about 3.30am and have a drive around - its near magical.

[theboyfold]

The Embankment is always nice, Picadilly Circus, Westminster, Tower of London and Tower Bridge.

But I think a lot of the lights on the building might be turned off by 11pm

[okgo]

Right I am going to go exploring..

3:30 am is to late Max, I have work tomorrow

[grumbledoak]

The London Eye is pretty at night. The lights are on now, but they do turn them off later (no idea when). Otherwise, as suggested, the Tower and Tower Bridge are nice and probably lit, ditto Parliament, as is London Bridge from Tower side (red lighting, continued from a Poppy day fly-over). Trafalgar Square should be lit most of the night, but I don't remember it being particularly colourful as a rule.

Enjoy.

HTH.

Edited by grumbledoak on Monday 27th October 22:58

[okgo]

I will update when I get back

[J-Skid]

Have a gander at the sights and then come over to Clerkenwell, stop in Smithfields and get a super fry up at Ferraris cafe.

[zac510]

Through St James's Pk past Elizabeth's house is nice.

[Maxf]

Tbops Enzo is parked on George St W1 in a shop window (seriously - Elite Performance Cars). Should be nicely lit up at night.

[oldbanger]

Couldn't be sure it's still there but there used to be an all night burger van on Blackheath that was good for people watching at.

[Plotloss]

Its no fun any more.

Years ago you could cane it in all the way down the A4, Cromwell Road, Knightsbridge down to Sloane Square and then along the Kings Road all without issue and not a camera in sight.

Bit like Out Run at night.

Ahhh, happy days, even if we were in st old cars.

[okgo]

Well I had a nice drive all round some of the above stuff. Scouted out a place where I need to maybe go for interview so that was useful.

Som imagine my displeasure to be flashed (in the face) on the A3 by Robin hood roundabout, fking flash was almost red right in my face.

Another 3 points

[sleep envy]

Plotloss said:

Its no fun any more.

M25 to Soho and back in under 30 mins

[smack]

okgo said:

Well I had a nice drive all round some of the above stuff. Scouted out a place where I need to maybe go for interview so that was useful.

Som imagine my displeasure to be flashed (in the face) on the A3 by Robin hood roundabout, fking flash was almost red right in my face.

Another 3 points

The one just before the roundabout outbound? Just before the dip in the top of the photo?
http://www.geograph.org.uk/photo/675837

It is a test camera, so you *might* be lucky there.

[smack]

Plotloss said:

Its no fun any more.

Years ago you could cane it in all the way down the A4, Cromwell Road, Knightsbridge down to Sloane Square and then along the Kings Road all without issue and not a camera in sight.

Bit like Out Run at night.

Ahhh, happy days, even if we were in st old cars.

Along with traffic lights at every place they can think of, that are phased to allow 80 year old grandma's on bicycles to not stop while pottering along at 5 mph

[Kiltie]

Plotloss said:

Its no fun any more.

Years ago you could cane it in all the way down the A4, Cromwell Road, Knightsbridge down to Sloane Square and then along the Kings Road all without issue and not a camera in sight.

Bit like Out Run at night.

Ahhh, happy days, even if we were in st old cars.

Indeed ragged a Fiesta 1.1L on that very route a number of times late at night (mid / late eighties).

I had contact, at the time, with folks in the Lambo dealership workshop (can't quite remember but Brentford somewhere). Good stories about sons of Sheiks doing 100+ on Park Lane in highley modded Diablos at around 03:00 and then shooting the breeze with Met BiB afterwards.

As I recall, drink driving was also socially acceptable at the time / in the place. Good that some things change.

Cheers,

Eric

Edited by Kiltie on Tuesday 28th October 01:34

[ZR1cliff]

Scameras have ruined London, don't even think of pulling over in some places, you'll get a parking ticket through the post.

Edited by ZR1cliff on Tuesday 28th October 01:49