On Fri, Oct 18, 2002 at 10:26:57AM +0100, Nicholas Clark wrote: > > However, it is a moderately long walk from the nearest underground station. > (it's managed to pick a sweet spot (a bitter spot?) moderately equidistant > from three underground stations, so it's certainly an above average > distance)
But, really it's not *that* far from the tube. Nowhere which is still in Zone 1 is *that* far from a tube station. > It is approaching one of the less nice parts of central London, sufficient > for one london.pm member's wife to insist that he doesn't go there. I have to take issue with this somewhat. London may not be a land of fairies and elves, but it is for the most part perfectly safe. > That may sound trivial - in some ways it is - 1 person out of many, > subjective rather than objective. But it's also the first location (that > I've been aware of) where this has happened, and I admit that I don't find > it a particularly pleasant walk late at night down Gray's Inn Road. In which case, may I suggest Oxford St or Dean St after about 2230. This should, of course, be viewed as entirely subjective, as I can be famously thick-skinned and regularly go drinking/clubbing in Kings Cross on a Friday night. (And I've never had a problem. *touch wood*). Ben
