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Mind again. Mind the Gap. The Gap.

Mind the Gap,

Mind the Gap, ladies and gentlemen, because this episode is all about the London Underground

and in this episode you're going to listen to a conversation between me and my cousin Oliver and our friend Pasquale as we talk about

using the London Underground and giving you some particularly good and very useful advice on exactly how you

should use the underground effectively. Now in London basically there are two

there are well there are that, there are, well, there are, that's, there's about 7 million people living in London,

and as well as that we get millions of tourists visiting the city every year,

and particularly next year 2012 because of the Olympic Games

there will be an estimated something like something ridiculous like another six million people are going to come to the city.

So we thought it would be very important to give some advice, share some tips on how you should

use the underground to make sure it doesn't get blocked and

doesn't get too crowded. Now for like Londoners for people who live in London

there are basically two types of tourists.

Okay now on one hand you got the bad tourists now these are the ones who come to the

city in large numbers and they don't know how to operate.

They don't know, they don't realize that they're visiting a city which is full of people

who need to get from A to B as quickly as possible because they need to do their job, right?

So these tourists, they come because they're on holiday, they don't realize, and they just

come and they might, for example, just stand around in the street in large groups just blocking the street or they would get into the underground system and just sort of stop in a passageway and look at their tourist maps because they're trying to work out where to go.

And all of the time they're just blocking people getting in the way, making life difficult for the ordinary Londoners who have to get from A to B in order to do their work.

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