More of London

Wednesday we hit the city again with another full schedule; Trafalgar Square, Tower of London, London Bridge and the London Dungeons. There aren’t any pigeons in Trafalgar Square any more – in fact there was a Falconer there chasing them away. The Tower of London was pretty cool with lots of good stories and the Crown Jewels were especially impressive. Some of the gold items were amazing. We walked across Tower Bridge and hunted out the London Dungeons quite late in the afternoon. The Dungeons are more of a “theme park” but there’s some history learning to be had too. The comparison between the way the Royals lived and the way the commoners lived was very interesting.

After a couple of pretty full-on days in London, Thursday called for a slow start. We trained into town about 10am and headed for South Kensington Station to the Science Museum. The kids had a ball. It’s probably half as big again as Te Papa and really hard to navigate around. We could probably have spent two days there and still not seen it all but I think we picked up the highlights. The IMAX Theatre was really good – the best I’ve ever seen. After dinner at South Kensington we headed back to Charing Cross Station and walked to the Lyceum Theatre to see Lion King. It was a stunning production with great sets and characters. The kids loved it, and so did Shari and I. It was late night though and both Adam and Reid crashed on the train the way home.

Mark