Moos Posted August 4, 2010 Share Posted August 4, 2010 Morning folksThe daughter of a close friend has come to stay with us for a few days to improve her English and to enjoy her first solo holiday, i.e. without parents. She's a very sweet-natured and not at all streetwise 15 year old. Any thoughts on fun things to do for 15-year-olds in London? I haven't a clue what teenagers like these days. She was in London years ago as a younger child, but isn't sure what sights she would like to see. Link to comment https://www.eastdulwichforum.co.uk/topic/12593-tips-please-teenage-girl-come-to-stay/ Share on other sites More sharing options...
cate Posted August 4, 2010 Share Posted August 4, 2010 Camden and market is always fun for teenagers. You could then take her to the top of Primrose Hill to see the view. She might also like Brixton market - the covered versions. They are open late on Thursday night. Greenwich market. Borough market is on Thursday, Friday and Saturdays. A trip round Soho and go to Carnaby Street and tell her the history. London Eye, trip down the Thames. If she likes fashion then a trip to Zandra Rhodes museum in Borough.If she likes proper American style hamburgers then the Meatwagon is putting in an appearance on Friday off Chadwick Road. Link to comment https://www.eastdulwichforum.co.uk/topic/12593-tips-please-teenage-girl-come-to-stay/#findComment-348291 Share on other sites More sharing options...
Peckhamgatecrasher Posted August 4, 2010 Share Posted August 4, 2010 Sadly, my experience of 15 year old girls is that they are not into culture at all. Shopping. Or some shopping. Or you could even take her shopping. Though it is beyond me, Westfield seems to be the major attraction. And Camden, as said above. Just a further thought: you could take her shopping. Link to comment https://www.eastdulwichforum.co.uk/topic/12593-tips-please-teenage-girl-come-to-stay/#findComment-348292 Share on other sites More sharing options...
Keef Posted August 4, 2010 Share Posted August 4, 2010 I'm guessing girls are nop longer drinking that vile strawberry 20/20 stuff... Maybe a selection of alcopops? Link to comment https://www.eastdulwichforum.co.uk/topic/12593-tips-please-teenage-girl-come-to-stay/#findComment-348293 Share on other sites More sharing options...
sophiesofa Posted August 4, 2010 Share Posted August 4, 2010 A day out to Brighton would be fun Link to comment https://www.eastdulwichforum.co.uk/topic/12593-tips-please-teenage-girl-come-to-stay/#findComment-348300 Share on other sites More sharing options...
sophiesofa Posted August 4, 2010 Share Posted August 4, 2010 Maybe a musical too Link to comment https://www.eastdulwichforum.co.uk/topic/12593-tips-please-teenage-girl-come-to-stay/#findComment-348301 Share on other sites More sharing options...
jollybaby Posted August 4, 2010 Share Posted August 4, 2010 I used to love hanging around Covent Garden at that age Link to comment https://www.eastdulwichforum.co.uk/topic/12593-tips-please-teenage-girl-come-to-stay/#findComment-348306 Share on other sites More sharing options...
SteveT Posted August 4, 2010 Share Posted August 4, 2010 I suppose you could ask her what she would like to do.Meanwhile you could suggest launch pad at the science museum, the childrens museum in bethnal green, and the museum of mankind in burlington street.The eye.Bowling at streatham might burn off some surplus energy.Swimming at brockwell lido.Get ingredients for her to bake a cake or pie.Get her to do some ironing and pay her, they always like money.Try making her your paid assistant for a day or two so she can learn about nannying and changing mooslings soiled garb.They tend to enjoy doing things with you. Link to comment https://www.eastdulwichforum.co.uk/topic/12593-tips-please-teenage-girl-come-to-stay/#findComment-348309 Share on other sites More sharing options...
david_carnell Posted August 4, 2010 Share Posted August 4, 2010 Peckhamgatecrasher Wrote:-------------------------------------------------------> Sadly, my experience of 15 year old girls is that> they are not into culture at all. Shopping. Or> some shopping. Or you could even take her> shopping. Though it is beyond me, Westfield seems> to be the major attraction. And Camden, as said> above. Just a further thought: you could take her> shopping.Ah, but this is a sophisticated continental teenage girl who will no doubt be reading Proust and smoking gallois cigarillos. Tate Modern is a good, free day out and the Southbank can be a continuation of that. Dover Street market is a bit more trendy (but expensive) and Spitalfields, Columbia Rd and Brick Lane are all good on a weekend jaunt.Not sure how "urban" she might be (i.e. Brixton might be a little intense for someone from a rural European background) but short train journies into the countryside can be good too - maybe the South Downs and then onto Brighton?And a gig at a cool venue of a cool band - ask a teenager for up to date info on "cool"...I have no idea. Link to comment https://www.eastdulwichforum.co.uk/topic/12593-tips-please-teenage-girl-come-to-stay/#findComment-348311 Share on other sites More sharing options...
Sue Posted August 4, 2010 Share Posted August 4, 2010 SteveT Wrote:-------------------------------------------------------> I suppose you could ask her what she would like to> do.> > Meanwhile you could suggest launch pad at the> science museum, the childrens museum in bethnal> green, and the museum of mankind in burlington> street.>xxxxxxxxxEh? This is a fifteen year old girl who unless she is very unusual probably won't want to look round stuff like the children's museum, which is full of toys - she's hardly old enough to be nostalgic yet :)) Link to comment https://www.eastdulwichforum.co.uk/topic/12593-tips-please-teenage-girl-come-to-stay/#findComment-348313 Share on other sites More sharing options...
womanofdulwich Posted August 4, 2010 Share Posted August 4, 2010 i think Primark in Bromley or Oxford street are a must - give Westfield a miss.Camden market is very popular for atmosphere. i think looking at boys may be a pasttime-is she sporty at all? the velodrome open session?or if quiet /crafty the zandra rhodes fashion/textiel museum or even the pottery cafe where you make/ bake a piece of clay.i'd ask her mum and try and organise her otherwise she may not go anywhere/ get out of bed,;-) Link to comment https://www.eastdulwichforum.co.uk/topic/12593-tips-please-teenage-girl-come-to-stay/#findComment-348319 Share on other sites More sharing options...
SteveT Posted August 4, 2010 Share Posted August 4, 2010 Basicly Sue, she wants to fall in love with a twenty five year old yobbo who pretends he's a footballer but is really an unemployed scaffolder, who is totally inappropriate and either get pregnant or an unspecified disease, or both.On the upside though, I'm sure her parents would see the funny side of it. Link to comment https://www.eastdulwichforum.co.uk/topic/12593-tips-please-teenage-girl-come-to-stay/#findComment-348327 Share on other sites More sharing options...
Carrie Posted August 4, 2010 Share Posted August 4, 2010 Have just asked my 16 year old girl - definitely shopping - Oxford Street seems to be the place to go or Camden Market if it is the weekend because that is interesting for people watching if nothing else - but she says also got to see some sights - Buckingham Palace/St Paul's cathedral etc but she might have her own ideas of what she wants to see - don't go to Museums or art galleries unless she has a particular interest so ask her first. Lunch somewhere on the South Bank - she might want to go and see a film in town - taking a boat out on the Serpentine - dinner out in Chinatown is quite fun. Link to comment https://www.eastdulwichforum.co.uk/topic/12593-tips-please-teenage-girl-come-to-stay/#findComment-348334 Share on other sites More sharing options...
SteveT Posted August 4, 2010 Share Posted August 4, 2010 Hallo dahlin' yeah like I'm a footballer aint I?I know this club that I can get you into if you play your cards right, where we can 'ave a few bevy's an a bit of snort, awright?Yes thankyou please! colours up not wanting to seem school girlish."Cammon then gal, jump into the cab and we'll be orf."Gives her a shunt up from behind to help her fall into the elevated cab of the scaffold lorry, I've loaned my Lambo' to a friend aint I.To be continued....... Link to comment https://www.eastdulwichforum.co.uk/topic/12593-tips-please-teenage-girl-come-to-stay/#findComment-348338 Share on other sites More sharing options...
Moos Posted August 4, 2010 Author Share Posted August 4, 2010 Thanks everyone - really useful tips and some great ideas - all much appreciated.Of course we have asked her what she wants to do, apologies if that wasn't clear from "she isn't sure what sights she would like to see". My limited experience of her and of young people is that they like to be given a selection of things to do rather than being asked out cold 'So, what are we doing then?', especially in a strange city. I would be happy for her to have some experiences that will stretch her boundaries and which she could choose or not choose to tell her parents about, within the limits of the trust that her parents have put in us to look after their beloved daughter..She is both arty and crafty, so so the fashion museums and pottery stuff is a fantastic thought. Also markets, also trips to the countryside out of London. Many thanks again, my useful forum friends. (WOD, last I heard she was still in bed, but that was after a very late arrival in London last night ;-)) Link to comment https://www.eastdulwichforum.co.uk/topic/12593-tips-please-teenage-girl-come-to-stay/#findComment-348340 Share on other sites More sharing options...
Moos Posted August 4, 2010 Author Share Posted August 4, 2010 Hi SteveAppreciate that your comments are intended as a joke, but could I politely request that the story stops where it is now rather than being continued? It's making me a little uncomfortable, as I didn't put my husband's god-daughter on the forum to become the subject of a fantasy about teenage pregnancy and disease. All the bestMoos Link to comment https://www.eastdulwichforum.co.uk/topic/12593-tips-please-teenage-girl-come-to-stay/#findComment-348345 Share on other sites More sharing options...
Mick Mac Posted August 4, 2010 Share Posted August 4, 2010 Oh dear.....How about a boy band - there must be one of those playing somehwere in london this week, or a tribute band, she might like that. Link to comment https://www.eastdulwichforum.co.uk/topic/12593-tips-please-teenage-girl-come-to-stay/#findComment-348347 Share on other sites More sharing options...
Moos Posted August 4, 2010 Author Share Posted August 4, 2010 Yeah, sorry - appreciate that it could easily be a sign of my very limited sense of humour. :-$Anyway, bands are a top idea. Don't know what she likes, but anyway it would be up to poor Mr. Moos to accompany her! Link to comment https://www.eastdulwichforum.co.uk/topic/12593-tips-please-teenage-girl-come-to-stay/#findComment-348350 Share on other sites More sharing options...
giggirl Posted August 4, 2010 Share Posted August 4, 2010 The river walk that you can do on the south bank from Westminster up to the Tower of London is fantastic and there is so much to see on the way. It goes past the Festival Hall, Shakespeare's Globe, Tate Modern. Lots of places to stop and eat or have coffee. Spectacular views. Link to comment https://www.eastdulwichforum.co.uk/topic/12593-tips-please-teenage-girl-come-to-stay/#findComment-348356 Share on other sites More sharing options...
Mick Mac Posted August 4, 2010 Share Posted August 4, 2010 Or one of the organised "scary" walks - eg the jack the ripper walk or one of the organised historic walks. Link to comment https://www.eastdulwichforum.co.uk/topic/12593-tips-please-teenage-girl-come-to-stay/#findComment-348359 Share on other sites More sharing options...
chez Posted August 4, 2010 Share Posted August 4, 2010 giggirl Wrote:-------------------------------------------------------> The river walk that you can do on the south bank> from Westminster up to the Tower of London is> fantastic and there is so much to see on the way. > It goes past the Festival Hall, Shakespeare's> Globe, Tate Modern. Lots of places to stop and> eat or have coffee. Spectacular views.The exhibitions at the Hayward Gallery are well worth seeing if you go that way too - and a swimming pool on the roof if you book in advance! Link to comment https://www.eastdulwichforum.co.uk/topic/12593-tips-please-teenage-girl-come-to-stay/#findComment-348363 Share on other sites More sharing options...
womanofdulwich Posted August 4, 2010 Share Posted August 4, 2010 yes she could join the hedeous queue for the london dungeon with all the other europeans............ Link to comment https://www.eastdulwichforum.co.uk/topic/12593-tips-please-teenage-girl-come-to-stay/#findComment-348365 Share on other sites More sharing options...
Bellenden Belle Posted August 4, 2010 Share Posted August 4, 2010 Live music is worth considering - there's this website (recommended by the Arts Council)http://www.underagegigs.com/about.phpAnd you could always suggest she has a listen on myspace to some of the bands to see which ones she likes. Link to comment https://www.eastdulwichforum.co.uk/topic/12593-tips-please-teenage-girl-come-to-stay/#findComment-348401 Share on other sites More sharing options...
RosieH Posted August 4, 2010 Share Posted August 4, 2010 Yay for cool aunt Moos. Can you take me to the good places too?If you can bear it, Top Shop at Oxford Service. It's like a teenage heaven right here on earth.You could take her to Frank's of a weekend afternoon - quite cool and they're ok with kids during the day I think.This Saturday there's a vintage fair at Sassoon's Gallery on Blenheim Crescent. Who knows whether it will be brilliant or bobbins, but probably worth a shufty.For something a bit swanky, what about the pret-a-portea at the Berkeley - shoe shaped cakes and whatnot. Or afternoon tea at Yauatcha or Sketch - quite cool and you never know, you might see a celeb.Little London Fields Festival - free, East London scenesterdom this SaturdayThis is meant to be cool and freaky and not a little spooky (suppose it depends if she has a touch of the emo)Also, maze in trafalgar square - I can't wait to get in there. Link to comment https://www.eastdulwichforum.co.uk/topic/12593-tips-please-teenage-girl-come-to-stay/#findComment-348438 Share on other sites More sharing options...
Belle Posted August 4, 2010 Share Posted August 4, 2010 How about Selfridges/Liberty? appreciate she's prob more into high street stuff when it comes to buying but at that age (and still now) I loved window shopping all the designer stuff, those shops are great places to spend some time...can take her for a snack on the lower ground floor of selfridges and do some people-watching. Often the make up counters are quiet on week days and the girls on them are dying to do some trials/makeovers on people... Link to comment https://www.eastdulwichforum.co.uk/topic/12593-tips-please-teenage-girl-come-to-stay/#findComment-348596 Share on other sites More sharing options...
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