With good reason! Borehamwood can be dog rough. I recall when Titan used to play kids football and we'd go there for an away match. The talk on the touchline was about the shooting the night before. Got the impression that half the parents were involved!

It's no rougher than Widnes/Wigan/Warrington



Not that that is a glowing endorsement of the area, yet all the places surrounding it are really nice (Elstree, Shenley, Barnet, Mill Hill)

Radlett is upmarket.

Radlett's ok, just a small street and a station, and full of those horrible forward facing speed cameras

Im an Hull lad, i think i'll survive

Will you have time to look round the locality over the weekend? If so, you probably ought to visit St Albans - cathedral, surrounding park, lots of pubs. If you heading back up the M1 you could drive up from St Albans to Harpenden for a walk round the Common and Rothamsted. In fact the farmer's market will be on on Sunday 25th on the High Street. In other directions there's Hatfield House and then there's the dreaded Harry Potter Tour if you have kids with you (expensive though).

If you don't have kids St Albans is great for a Saturday night out.

£5.50 to go one stop (Kingsbury to Wembley) on the Jubilee line? Frig that Boris, I think I'll walk ta

catch the bus, 79, 204

I went to London at the weekend and found the bus much more enjoyable to use than the tube, loads more to see as you pass through the streets.



I think I've come a cropper on the Congestion charge though, I thought they would send you a bill if you went through the charging zone I didn't know you had to pre-pay or pay the day later. My fault for not checking before I went and I'll just have to wait to see if I get a fine through the post.

You will, on that you can be sure.



Why not phone them up, speak in a way that leaves them in no doubt that you are a pig-[is[/ihit thick northerner and it was your first time in that there Lunnon, you never know, they might give you some leeway

Which areas did you drive through? there's also an emissions set of cameras which some people confuse with congestion charge cameras.



I'd also call up though, the longer you leave it, the bigger the fine, ask the American diplomats.

I stayed in Kings Cross and turned into a road that had the C on the road but turned into the hotel's car park as I was still on the C, the camera was in the distance further up the road.



This was Thursday and then I left on Friday. I rang them on Monday them for the Friday but they said I couldn't pay for the Thursday and I would have to wait and see if I got a fine, they said it would take 7 days to hear something.

Strong likely hood that you went in the zone then, you live and learn i suppose.

Aye I really should have checked first.

Check on Google Streetview, I remember a fuss about something similar when it was introduced. If you have turned off before you enter the zone you shouldn't get charged Streetview will confirm this.

I'll check but constitutes entering the zone going over the "C" in the road or passing the camera which was further along in the road?

Do some googling mate. There will be a strict legal definition of the CCZ, including defined boundaries and signage for such. Don't rely on TfL to have made sure all the signage etc adheres to the legal requirements

Cheers will do.

Neither, there will be a sign with a big C on it, on most entrances to the zone there will be one on each side of the road, that is the zone boundary.



Were you at the travel inn on Euston Road? That is about the only dodgy turn I know around there.

Just unearthed my Oystercard after a week of searching.

Can handle the Hull to London train journey but that Kings X to Ruislip trek on the tube really is a ballache.

A few sherberts in the KX vicinity me thinks before [iGoing Underground.[/i

Can't you get a train that stops at Watford, a lot quicker to Ruislip then?

I was at Kings Cross Royal Scot the address given is 100 Kings Cross Road, the road in question with the congestion charge on it was called Vernon Rise, I turned into this from the A501 and then did an immediate left into the hotel car park

Hull train goes into KX not Euston. I don't think its very easy unless I am forgetting a suitable cross-Herts route.

The zone starts on the road right outside that hotel and Vernon rise is inside the zone.