BS: Advice please - young lady visiting UK

Subject: RE: BS: Advice please - young lady visiting UK
From: pirandello
Date: 26 Jun 07 - 12:29 PM

You're near Dorking and Leith Hill; take her for a walk through the rhododendron woods just beyond Coldharbour and up Leith Hill for great views over Surrey from the tower at the top, followed by lunch at The Plough in Coldharbour.

Subject: RE: BS: Advice please - young lady visiting UK
From: Dave Earl
Date: 26 Jun 07 - 11:39 AM

Hey Hils

Bring her down t'seaside.

Walk along the front. The Pier (with roundybouts etc at the end).

Fish and chips out of the paper.

Brighton has it all !

Come and say hello to us too.

Dave

Subject: RE: BS: Advice please - young lady visiting UK
From: JennyO
Date: 26 Jun 07 - 11:26 AM

The first time I visited the UK from Oz, I had my son and daughter with me (she was 18 and he was 21). I know she liked Camden Markets, and she also liked Covent Garden. Another good day out was Madame Tussauds and the London Planetarium, although I gather the Planetarium in the form that we saw it has been taken over by Tussauds now, and may not be as good as it was.

Subject: RE: BS: Advice please - young lady visiting UK
From: GUEST,leeneia
Date: 26 Jun 07 - 09:01 AM

Call her family on the telephone and ask for some advice. If she's a nice girl, she will be trying to please you and you will be trying to please her.

That advice about letting her rest first is excellent.

Subject: RE: BS: Advice please - young lady visiting UK
From: My guru always said
Date: 26 Jun 07 - 08:56 AM

Camden Market (brill shopping opportunity) & Brighton (squirty ice-cream!!) both excellent suggestions, thanks Chris!!

Echo in a reading room, isn't it like a library & you gotta be quiet??

She's already here Sorcha & staying with an Uncle so she may already have done a few of the sights but resting was a priority when arrived last Thursday and had 2 hours being held in immigration. What a dreadful experience that must have been for her!!

Thanks for the guide offer & link, Micca Dear, may take you up on that & you can guide us too *grin* Will get in touch when she's with us if she hasn't already done the London stuff!

Subject: RE: BS: Advice please - young lady visiting UK
From: Micca
Date: 26 Jun 07 - 08:37 AM

Hils, if she is "into" Classical music TRY here I would be prepared to act as guide to some of the sights of the Capital and of course to the Proms, They are such fun, the First Night concert is Friday 13 July Beethoven 9 wow!!something to expierience live at least once in a lifetime

Subject: RE: BS: Advice please - young lady visiting UK
From: GUEST,redhorse at work
Date: 26 Jun 07 - 08:19 AM

Try the famous echo in the British Museum Reading Room!

Subject: RE: BS: Advice please - young lady visiting UK
From: Sorcha
Date: 26 Jun 07 - 08:09 AM

Let her rest up, then ask her! And how long is she staying in England? That has a bearing on what she'll have time to do.

Subject: RE: BS: Advice please - young lady visiting UK
From: Phot
Date: 26 Jun 07 - 08:01 AM

Try Camden market, or Brighton. Both good days out.

You two responsible!? You're the nicest pair of kids I know!

Wassail!! Chris.

Subject: RE: BS: Advice please - young lady visiting UK
From: My guru always said
Date: 26 Jun 07 - 07:51 AM

Thanks Lynne, was hoping someone would know that!!

Living in Leatherhead, Surrey so day trips into London are definitely on the cards. London Eye (thanks jacqui) a possibility for sure and we have Chessington on our doorstep so that's a theme park (thanks Villan), but I don't know how it compares in respect to the better-known ones?

We won't know the young lady's likes & dislikes till we meet her so I want to have a few suggestions up my sleeve. What I do know is she plays piano to a decent grade & we're hoping she'll have a go on the organ (*behave*) as it might drive out the moth colony that's established inside!

Obviously we're going to have to behave like responsible adults while she's staying with us, so we've decided against pub crawls and the 18 year old with the car *grin*

Subject: RE: BS: Advice please - young lady visiting UK
From: MBSLynne
Date: 26 Jun 07 - 07:12 AM

Completely off topic...she's actually Richard's first cousin once removed. Sorry...I'm a family history anorak

Love Lynne

Subject: RE: BS: Advice please - young lady visiting UK
From: kendall
Date: 26 Jun 07 - 07:06 AM

If she's into history, she picked a great place to visit.

Subject: RE: BS: Advice please - young lady visiting UK
From: jacqui.c
Date: 26 Jun 07 - 06:41 AM

If she's OK with heights take her on the London Eye, if you get into London. Really fantastic views of the capital up there.

Subject: RE: BS: Advice please - young lady visiting UK
From: Rasener
Date: 26 Jun 07 - 06:33 AM

Theme Parks for sure
Folk Festival
A day in London with maybe concert or gig

Subject: RE: BS: Advice please - young lady visiting UK
From: McGrath of Harlow
Date: 26 Jun 07 - 06:10 AM

It'd all depend where you are living. And also of course on what the young lady is actually interested in.

Subject: RE: BS: Advice please - young lady visiting UK
From: Big Al Whittle
Date: 26 Jun 07 - 05:20 AM

An eighteen year old boy with a car....?

Subject: BS: Advice please - young lady visiting UK
From: My guru always said
Date: 26 Jun 07 - 04:32 AM

I don't often get here 'below the line' but I was just hoping I could get some advice from Catters to help our young visitor enjoy a few days stay with us. She's Richard's cousin's daughter (second cousin?) from Australia, only 14, but travelled here alone and will be coming to us on Thursday. She had a dreadful time on arrival at Gatwick with immigration despite having all the right paperwork so I'm hoping that we can brighten up her first visit to the UK.

So, any suggestions as to what a 14 year old girl (and I don't know her at all) from Oz would like to see or do during her first visit to the UK?