London with the family
We decided to visit the Natural History museum, it’s an incredible building right next to the Science museum, and the V&A. We did have to queue but it really is worth it, how can it not be? For starters it’s free, and then, there are dinosaurs! The 3 year old excitedly dragged us from a blue whale to dinosaurs, and fossils to dodos, and then back to more dinosaurs! There was so much to see, and lots of staff keen to share their knowledge.
We window shopped in the Lamborghini garage before eating big plates of pasta at Carluccios. I’m not sure whether the ride home was the highlight for my nephew who had never travelled at the front on the top deck of a red bus!
On the back of the previous day’s fun from the number 49, I got back on it the next day: This time we stayed on till Hyde Park, mooched through the South Flower Walk sharing our cookies with the squirrels. It was a beautiful sunny day, so the children paddled in the Diana, Princess of Wales’ Memorial Fountain, really enjoying themselves. We carried on through the park, just crossing the road into Knightsbridge where we found Wagamama’s for a noodle doodle lunch!
On another trip we caught the tube to London Bridge, which is a great starting point for a London adventure: You cross the road into Borough Market to grab a great coffee from Monmouth, then head to the river. From the river you can go left to the Tate Modern, or right to the Golden Hind, HMS Belfast and Tower Bridge. I chose to take a 4 year old and 8 year old to HMS Belfast, and it was fantastic; they clambered over everything, listened to audio stories, created their own tattoos whilst learning what different tattoos signified. After our morning on board the ship, we headed back to Borough Market for lunch, we all got to choose our food from different stalls so I managed to keep them happy with tapas, sausage rolls and giant brownies!
London is such a great adventure, it’s really worth investing a little time and money exploring our own capital!
