what to do in london, when one is w/o his 914 Options

[double-a]

my company is sending me to london for two weeks, and oddly enough refused to pay to have my 914 shipped over there with me. (IMG:style_emoticons/default/mad.gif)

so what can a guy see while he's there? any 914world.com members in the london/teddington area?

~a

[lapuwali]

Is there still a Lotus factory in Hethel? I was under the impression they'd moved all production to Malaysia or somesuch.

I'd also agree (somewhat) on the renting (er, hiring) of a car. My first trip to London dog's years ago was for business, and I got them to give me a few days extra. My very first experience with a RHD car was taking the car (a Sierra, I didn't have much choice) from the car park of the hotel in the City (read, extreme congestion) where I was staying. Very much a case of being thrown into the deep end, and not really the best way to start out. However, it was quite the eye-opener. I took the motorway all the way to Wales and back in an easy day. Average traffic speeds were 90mph or so, and everyone was driving very competently. Nothing like cruising at 85mph and having a family of four in a station wagon (er, estate) sail by at over 100. I few other trips on A and B roads had me clipping hedges and way overdriving this poor car.

Any chance to drive in Europe is very much a worthwhile experience for an American. However, if you can swing it, try to arrange a pickup from somewhere outside the M25 (the ring motorway around London), so you can get some experience with sitting on the wrong side of the car and the wrong side of the road BEFORE you have to deal with London traffic.

Ditto on the Chunnel run. The EuroStar TGV (high-speed train) runs at 250km/h or so on the French side, and can get you from the cab stand at Waterloo Station in London to a cab stand at Gare du Nord in Paris in roughly three hours. Even the plane takes longer than that, and it's not often you get to see the countryside whiz by at that kind of speed.