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#1 Byshop  Moderator
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I'm going to Basingstoke for a couple of weeks. What's interesting to do around there?

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Fish & Chips and Full English Breakfast :P And Congrats, Hope you have a great time there Byshop :)

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@indzman said:

Fish & Chips and Full English Breakfast :P And Congrats, Hope you have a great time there Byshop :)

Why are you advocating for a hearth attack? :P

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@horgen said:
@indzman said:

Fish & Chips and Full English Breakfast :P And Congrats, Hope you have a great time there Byshop :)

Why are you advocating for a hearth attack? :P

Isn't Byshop a foodie? My bad then :P

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#5  Edited By horgen  Moderator
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@indzman said:
@horgen said:
@indzman said:

Fish & Chips and Full English Breakfast :P And Congrats, Hope you have a great time there Byshop :)

Why are you advocating for a hearth attack? :P

Isn't Byshop a foodie? My bad then :P

Oh I don't know. An English breakfast isn't exactly healthy though. So I wouldn't advice him to eat it more than once during his time there.

Actually I see it is less than an hour from London. So if you're staying there over the weekend @Byshop, I would recommend going there. More places to visit.

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@horgen: it's probabily healthier than fish and chips

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#7  Edited By Sancho_Panzer
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Apart from London... If you want to see a pretty historic city, Winchester's a stone's throw away. You're also not too far from Stonehenge, so that could be worth a visit. Basingstoke itself is nothing to shout about, like a few of the other big London commuter belt towns (Guilford and Reading are similarly dreary and commercial but with some cheap pubs and clubs, if that's what you're after). Oxford's nice for a day trip, and also not too far, and then you've got Southampton and Portsmouth on the South Coast, but at this time of year, I guess those last two are only going to appeal to naval history nerds.

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https://www.festivalplace.co.uk/basingstoke/things-to-do-in-basingstoke/?&utm_term=%2Bthings+%2Bto+%2Bdo+%2Bin+%2Bbasingstoke&utm_campaign=Things+To+Do&utm_medium=cpc&utm_source=google

I searched is basingstock posh and first result came was its a dump. Just like rest of the UK then lol.

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@horgen said:
@indzman said:
@horgen said:
@indzman said:

Fish & Chips and Full English Breakfast :P And Congrats, Hope you have a great time there Byshop :)

Why are you advocating for a hearth attack? :P

Isn't Byshop a foodie? My bad then :P

Oh I don't know. An English breakfast isn't exactly healthy though. So I wouldn't advice him to eat it more than once during his time there.

Actually I see it is less than an hour from London. So if you're staying there over the weekend @Byshop, I would recommend going there. More places to visit.

I try the food everywhere I travel to. I will see if I can check out London while I'm there, then. Thanks!

-Byshop

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@indzman said:

Fish & Chips and Full English Breakfast :P And Congrats, Hope you have a great time there Byshop :)

Two of my favourite meals right there. We also have a food called spotted dick, yup you read that right though it's probably more palatable than rocky mountain oysters which is deep fried bull nuts in US.

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@borninblood60 said:
@indzman said:

Fish & Chips and Full English Breakfast :P And Congrats, Hope you have a great time there Byshop :)

Two of my favourite meals right there. We also have a food called spotted dick, yup you read that right though it's probably more palatable than rocky mountain oysters which is deep fried bull nuts in US.

Spotted Dick is just a pudding with a weird name. I live in Colorado where Rocky Mountain Oysters are from and I've actually had deez (see what I did there?). Can't say I'm a fan, though.

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#12  Edited By DrSpoon
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The South Downs and New Forest are good if you are interested in the that sort of stuff and have your own transportation... if you do, the Dorset coast is a little bit further and is worth a visit. For city stuff, others have said the 'nicer' places...

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@indzman said:

Fish & Chips and Full English Breakfast :P And Congrats, Hope you have a great time there Byshop :)

LOL British food is barely food...........sorry guys.

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Most people have said negative things so far,sorry for that Bishop.All the best of luck on your trip and have a safe and happy time in the U.K.

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Make sure you go to a nice pub and have a carvery (preferably on a Sunday). But yeh Basingstoke...may as well travel in to London.

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#16  Edited By mrbojangles25
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@Byshop said:
@horgen said:
@indzman said:
@horgen said:

Why are you advocating for a hearth attack? :P

Isn't Byshop a foodie? My bad then :P

Oh I don't know. An English breakfast isn't exactly healthy though. So I wouldn't advice him to eat it more than once during his time there.

Actually I see it is less than an hour from London. So if you're staying there over the weekend @Byshop, I would recommend going there. More places to visit.

I try the food everywhere I travel to. I will see if I can check out London while I'm there, then. Thanks!

-Byshop

Not to sound like a broken record but I second the full English breakfast :D SOoooooooooo good. And the fish and chips, with mushy peas of course :)

As for where to go, how much free time will you have? You'll be there for two weeks so it sounds like you should have at least one or two weekends off, though I don't know how busy your job keeps you.

I went there a few years ago, I recommend:

London, which you are pretty close to. I am sure you can find plenty to do there. Kensington Gardens/Palace, some good places to eat (don't believe what they say about English food, London is a melting pot, so many good foods to eat there!),

Oxford, a lot of great places to go. Can go to Blackwell's Bookstore, buy a copy of The Hobbit, then go to the Eagle and Child pub where Tolkien and CS Lewis frequented. The church where they filmed the dinner hall scenes of Harry Potter is also in Oxford. And of course, there is the University, which is a pretty neat campus to check out.

Hmmm what else. There's Stonehenge, of course, but if you don't have your own transportion it literally takes about half a day to get out there, you spend an hour or so looking at it, then you spend half a day getting back. Yeah it is a really historic, cool thing but you essentially spend a single day on a very touristy thing. There are a lot of medieval/historic structures in London and England, too, if history is your thing. I think I also went to Westminster...Westchester....Worchester (???) Cathedral, that was pretty cool.

FYI I took rail, walked, and a couple cab rides the whole time I was there. One bus ride (stonehenge). Public transportation is excellent, cab drivers are certified and courteous and generally very pleasant.

And in London you can get something called an Oyster card (I think it was called an Oyster card) that let's you take "the tube" everywhere. It's like an unlimited pass, worth it if you spend a lot of time in London.

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@indzman said:

Fish & Chips and Full English Breakfast :P And Congrats, Hope you have a great time there Byshop :)

LOL British food is barely food...........sorry guys.

Nonsense! Xenophobe! Pleb!

All you people saying English food is bad :(

@brimmul777 said:

Most people have said negative things so far,sorry for that Bishop.All the best of luck on your trip and have a safe and happy time in the U.K.

Awww :(

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@indzman said:

Fish & Chips and Full English Breakfast :P And Congrats, Hope you have a great time there Byshop :)

Two of my favourite meals right there. We also have a food called spotted dick, yup you read that right though it's probably more palatable than rocky mountain oysters which is deep fried bull nuts in US.

I am more partial to sticky toffee pudding myself.

Oh, and language:

biscuits = cookies

crisps = chips

chips = fries

trousers = pants

short trousers = shorts

fanny = ....vagina...so don't go saying "fanny pack" :P

lift = elevator

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Enjoy the bad weather and food

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@mrbojangles25 said:
@Byshop said:
@horgen said:
@indzman said:
@horgen said:

Why are you advocating for a hearth attack? :P

Isn't Byshop a foodie? My bad then :P

Oh I don't know. An English breakfast isn't exactly healthy though. So I wouldn't advice him to eat it more than once during his time there.

Actually I see it is less than an hour from London. So if you're staying there over the weekend @Byshop, I would recommend going there. More places to visit.

I try the food everywhere I travel to. I will see if I can check out London while I'm there, then. Thanks!

-Byshop

Not to sound like a broken record but I second the full English breakfast :D SOoooooooooo good. And the fish and chips, with mushy peas of course :)

As for where to go, how much free time will you have? You'll be there for two weeks so it sounds like you should have at least one or two weekends off, though I don't know how busy your job keeps you.

I went there a few years ago, I recommend:

London, which you are pretty close to. I am sure you can find plenty to do there. Kensington Gardens/Palace, some good places to eat (don't believe what they say about English food, London is a melting pot, so many good foods to eat there!),

Oxford, a lot of great places to go. Can go to Blackwell's Bookstore, buy a copy of The Hobbit, then go to the Eagle and Child pub where Tolkien and CS Lewis frequented. The church where they filmed the dinner hall scenes of Harry Potter is also in Oxford. And of course, there is the University, which is a pretty neat campus to check out.

Hmmm what else. There's Stonehenge, of course, but if you don't have your own transportion it literally takes about half a day to get out there, you spend an hour or so looking at it, then you spend half a day getting back. Yeah it is a really historic, cool thing but you essentially spend a single day on a very touristy thing. There are a lot of medieval/historic structures in London and England, too, if history is your thing. I think I also went to Westminster...Westchester....Worchester (???) Cathedral, that was pretty cool.

FYI I took rail, walked, and a couple cab rides the whole time I was there. One bus ride (stonehenge). Public transportation is excellent, cab drivers are certified and courteous and generally very pleasant.

And in London you can get something called an Oyster card (I think it was called an Oyster card) that let's you take "the tube" everywhere. It's like an unlimited pass, worth it if you spend a lot of time in London.



Mr Monkey aren't you forgetting something? :P

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Don't get a lemon chucked at you.

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#20  Edited By mrbojangles25
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@indzman said:
@mrbojangles25 said:
@Byshop said:
@horgen said:
@indzman said:

Isn't Byshop a foodie? My bad then :P

Oh I don't know. An English breakfast isn't exactly healthy though. So I wouldn't advice him to eat it more than once during his time there.

Actually I see it is less than an hour from London. So if you're staying there over the weekend @Byshop, I would recommend going there. More places to visit.

I try the food everywhere I travel to. I will see if I can check out London while I'm there, then. Thanks!

-Byshop

...

Mr Monkey aren't you forgetting something? :P

...mmmMonkeys?

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@mrbojangles25 said:
@indzman said:
@mrbojangles25 said:
@Byshop said:
@horgen said:

Oh I don't know. An English breakfast isn't exactly healthy though. So I wouldn't advice him to eat it more than once during his time there.

Actually I see it is less than an hour from London. So if you're staying there over the weekend @Byshop, I would recommend going there. More places to visit.

I try the food everywhere I travel to. I will see if I can check out London while I'm there, then. Thanks!

-Byshop

...

Mr Monkey aren't you forgetting something? :P

...mmmMonkeys?

mmm

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@blamix said:

Enjoy the bad weather and food

funnily, when I went to London, they had a heatwave there. Went back the year after. Again it was hot and sunny.

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@indzman said:
@mrbojangles25 said:
@indzman said:
@mrbojangles25 said:
@Byshop said:

I try the food everywhere I travel to. I will see if I can check out London while I'm there, then. Thanks!

-Byshop

...

Mr Monkey aren't you forgetting something? :P

...mmmMonkeys?

mmm

Mmmmm! Chilled Monkey Brains!

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Now thats work travel well worth it. UK = Elizabeth Hurley, all i can think of that comes to mind.

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@Byshop said:

I'm going to Basingstoke for a couple of weeks.

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Never been to Basingstoke, for a person who lives in the North East if you haven't tried Newcastle Brown Ale yet its worth drinking

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@benleslie5 said:

Never been to Basingstoke, for a person who lives in the North East if you haven't tried Newcastle Brown Ale yet its worth drinking

*writes that down*

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@Byshop said:
@indzman said:
@mrbojangles25 said:
@indzman said:
@mrbojangles25 said:

...

Mr Monkey aren't you forgetting something? :P

...mmmMonkeys?

mmm

Mmmmm! Chilled Monkey Brains!

-Byshop

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If someone asks if you want to smoke a *** they mean cigarette not a flamboyant gay person. Unless you're in to that then go nuts.

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#31  Edited By Jag85
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@Byshop said:

I'm going to Basingstoke for a couple of weeks. What's interesting to do around there?

-Byshop

I thought you were British?

@indzman said:

Fish & Chips and Full English Breakfast :P And Congrats, Hope you have a great time there Byshop :)

Lot of curry shops too.

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@Jag85 said:
@Byshop said:

I'm going to Basingstoke for a couple of weeks. What's interesting to do around there?

-Byshop

I thought you were British?

No, but I almost always speak in complete sentences which may create an air of formality which may have created such an impression. I was born in Queens and I live in mountainous Colorado.

-Byshop

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@benleslie5 said:

Never been to Basingstoke, for a person who lives in the North East if you haven't tried Newcastle Brown Ale yet its worth drinking

You can get that here.......without the food. :P

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If I were in your position, I would take it upon myself to be a patron of the great Gordon Ramsay. Not sure what all of his restaurants are in the London area, but I hear they are all fantastic.