Teeteringhead & Widger,
I avoided the tube by having a daily adrenalin rush by cycling to work. (4 years - 2 accidents - 1 alcohol related - bollards behind County Hall at midnight - ouch!) Mind you, it kept my fitness levels for those annual Jock-fests in St Vincent's bunker gym.
And I agree with you TTH - a MB tour could be fun, but it was also hard & interesting work. I did tours there as a Sqn Ldr and a Wg Cdr in Jt and sS roles. I felt infinitely better informed than my erstwhile compatriots at High Wycombe. I feel that people who deride MB are typically those who:
a) Don't appreciate London and decry it in absence of any experience (London is the best city on the Planet)
b) Have never served there; and,
b) Shouldn't be allowed to serve there.