What is there to do in that there London

[DiddlyDodds]

The wife has final convinced me that a trip to London is on the cards, to see the sights and all that.

I will be staying in a hotel behind the Tower of London with the wife and our five year old daughter in August (The weekend after the ride London 100 thing).

So with my limited knowledge of all things London i need to pack in as many sight seeing things into a Friday afternoon and full day Saturday/Sunday Morning.

So far i have
The Tower of London
Tower bridge
Buckingham Palace
St Paul's
The Natural History Museum
Hyde Park with Diana s Fountain (The wifes idea not mine)

These are all the obvious ones
Any good off the beaten track ideas please

 

[vernon]

The wife has final convinced me that a trip to London is on the cards, to see the sights and all that.

I will be staying in a hotel behind the Tower of London with the wife and our five year old daughter in August (The weekend after the ride London 100 thing).

So with my limited knowledge of all things London i need to pack in as many sight seeing things into a Friday afternoon and full day Saturday/Sunday Morning.

So far i have
The Tower of London
Tower bridge
Buckingham Palace
St Paul's
The Natural History Museum
Hyde Park with Diana s Fountain (The wifes idea not mine)

These are all the obvious ones
Any good off the beaten track ideas please

Harewood House, Holyrood House, Edinburgh Castle.

Off the beaten track enough?

 

[vernon]

Seriously though....

A nice small museum is the Welcome Truest Museum near Euston Station. It's small enough to pay a short visit to.
Covent Garden is good for lunch, market stalls and interesting street acts.
An evening meal in Chinatown is entertainment in its own right.
A visit to Harrods

 

[DiddlyDodds]

Seriously though....

A nice small museum is the Welcome Truest Museum near Euston Station. It's small enough to pay a short visit to.
Covent Garden is good for lunch, market stalls and interesting street acts.
An evening meal in Chinatown is entertainment in its own right.
A visit to Harrods

I like the sound of the Covent Garden thing , not sure about Harrords sounds expensive of the wife sees shopping opportunities.

 

[DiddlyDodds]

The National Portrait Gallery
Tate Modern
The Maritime Museum at Greenwich.

Have a great time

I keep telling the wife we invented time in this country so a trip Greenwich sounds good , but would a 5 year old not be bored in the galleries

 

[DiddlyDodds]

Harewood House, Holyrood House, Edinburgh Castle.

Off the beaten track enough?

Went to Harewood House once , it was shut.

 

[Dave 123]

Camden. Plenty to see. Fantastic people watching. You can buy yourself a corset, a big leather coat, big boots with millions of buckles on them, get given free food all day, buy an old army coat, wander and have fun.

 

[annedonnelly]

One of my colleagues has just come back and raved about London Zoo - might suit a five year old better than some of the galleries.

 

[asterix]

Went to Harewood House once , it was shut.

Teach you to pre-book.

 

[alicat]

Take a trip on the river bus or on the London Eye or up the Shard - gives you a good perspective of the place.

 

[Hitchington]

The Royal College of Surgeons Hunterian museum (free), packed full of bottled specimens of body parts and oddities and a fantastic display on the history of surgery http://www.rcseng.ac.uk/museums/hunterian

Download the audio guide onto your phone http://www.rcseng.ac.uk/museums/hunterian/information/audio_guide_museum.html you will not be disappointed

Unfortunately the Imperial War Museum is shut until July but a trip to Greenwich by Thames Clipper to visit the Maritime Museum and the Royal Observatory (both free) are well worth it. There's a great covered market in Greenwich too.

And if you really want to go off the beaten track the Horniman Museum (also free) http://www.horniman.ac.uk/ is a really fantastic museum with plenty for a little one to do.

 

[Norry1]

Churchill War Rooms

 

[ianrauk]

On Sundays 9am, Changing of the Guard at Horseguards. If you like all the pageantry and bling it's a magnificent sight to behold.

Near Hyde Park, grab a Boris Bike and do a few laps of the park. Good cycle path and the road through the park is shut.

 

[PaulB]

If ever I am forced to go to that London, the thing I most look forward to is seeing the sign that reads M1 north. The higher the number on the blue board, the lighter my soul.

 

[byegad]

I keep dodging trips to Lunnon, so far we've had it proposed by she who thinks she must be obeyed four times.

I managed to deflect this to 3 visits to Paris* and a long weekend in the Lake District. However she's getting more insistent and it's looking like a trip to Rome will be needed to avoid Lunnon this year.

I really like Paris and detest Lunnon with a passion.