Question about tool hunting outside the USA

Re: Question about tool hunting outside the USA

Tim Caley - North Little Rock

>The original Hard Cafe is there. Not to far from Buckingham Palace, about a 10-15 minute walk if I remember correctly. Kinda cool to go the the starting place of something that has gone worldwide.

Re: Question about tool hunting outside the USA

joel

>March is David STanley Auction month - it's not in London but it's worth the trip.

Food in London gets better every time I am there.

The average Indian food is much better than anything in the US. And if you like pub food you can get consistently decent if not great pub food in most places. I mostly ate in pubs for lunch because I can't think of a better lunch than pub food and a pint or two.

However most of the places that serve locals are now pretty good, very international - I don't recall having to look far for decent food while there last - although on my first trip in 1987 it was a stretch.

Like all large cities you will do better in places meant for locals than for tourists. Get a copy of TimeOut when you land and that will be a good guide to the hip and trendy resturants of the moment.

Portions are a lot smaller than in the US and in general cost more.

For tools In London you can still try portabello road on Saturday early and The chelsea Market on Monday. although I don't remember if I found picking so lean last time because all the dealers I know are gone or if I was just being lazy.

Re: Ditto Portobello Road

Hank Knight

>I was in London about a year ago and picked up a really nice Norris A5 on Portobello Road for about $160 American dollars. The tool dealers are scattered among all the other stuff, so you have to look for them. Take your wife; she'll enjoy the shopping too. I'm not a fan of British food. Pub food is O.K. but I get really tired of it. I've found the ethnic restaurants in London have better fare and some of them are REALLY GOOD. There's an Italian restaurant near the Old Vic Theatre called La Barca that is excellent.

Have a great time. Wish I was going.

Re: Question about tool hunting outside the USA

GolfSteve in Calgary

>One tip that I've found useful during my years of world travel is to pick up a local woodworking magazine and browse through the ads. A good example for travelling to England is "Traditional Woodworking".

Go through the ads, bookmark the ones that interest you, and visit the advertiser's websites to see what they have to offer. Phone a lot of places up and ask what they carry to save yourself a few wasted trips.

Re: Question about tool hunting outside the USA

Jay Hanks/ Columbus Ohio

>Thank you all for the replies, I am going to make a list of the suggestions and hopefully make it to the auction that David Stanley puts on. Thanks again Jay

Re: Question about tool hunting outside the USA

Alice Frampton, UK

>Jay,

Tony Murland's "domestic" auction is on on the 25th March (IIRC) as well, if that's any good to you.

Cheers, Alf

Curry With Your Chips

David Linnabary

>Be sure to try the curry sauce with your chips, it is definately my favorite junk food now.

I wasn't much for the typical Brit fare, so I pretty well lived on fish and chip and Indian food which is the best anywhere.

David

Re: Curry With Your Chips

Justin Ball

>Depends on the part of the country- north midlands is mostly chips n gravy, hence famous song by the Macclads "beer n sex n chips n gravy/it's all a Macclad wants...(Macclad= flat cap wearer from Macclesfield) Scotish lowlands is mostly salt n sauce (brown sauce and vinegar). Curryn chips is big in Brum and London. Round here its malt vinegar and salt, eaten in the back of a stolen Ford Escort.

Justin, Merry in Merthyr