Comment Re:From a Brit who travels to the US a lot (Score 1) 1095
Get an Underground Overground tube map. You can buy these from dispensers on the underground platforms. They show the actual physical route and actual physical distances the tube trains take; the traditional symbolic map doesn't demonstrate the real distances between stops. You can waste a lot of time trying to take a particular tube to a particular station, when you could have just taken a simpler journey and ended up only two blocks' walk away. Not as convenient as the popout map, but good for planning your day.
I would agree with this; better yet if you have an iPhone, get the London Tube app - it will tell you the nearest tube stop using GPS and plot the fastest route from one station to the other. Finally, changing at Bank for Monument and vice versa on the tube is to be avoided if at all possible, especially during rush hour!