The kids at the dinosaur exhibition (apologies for the photo, sorry). You can only just see the dinosaur skeleton behind them.
This morning after a yummy greasy English breakfast of bacon, eggs, tomato, sausages and piles of hot buttered toast, we went to London City Airport which is just round the corner from us, to collect our hire car. We had researched train travel on the internet and found that it was going to be lots cheaper to have a car than pay for the 4 of us to go to Leeds by train and back. It was a bit disappointing because I love train travel, much more relaxing than driving. The car hire was £200 which was about half what it would have cost to go by train.
We spent the rest of the day on the tube getting to the Natural History Museum. It took ages because the Jubilee line which is the direct train we would normally have got on was shut for maintenance so we had to take this circuitous route around inner London. By the time we finally arrived I nearly couldn’t be bothered. But the museum was so fantastic and absorbing – so much to see. A few of the highlights for us were the lifesize dinosaur exhibition, the massive mammals including the blue whale and the marine fossils display. There was way too much for us for one afternoon. The museum building itself is also very beautiful and is a world famous London landmark known as the Waterhouse Building named after the young architect Alfred Waterhouse who designed it after the originally commissioned architect died.
The area of Kensington has several other museums too but the kids can only take in so much at a time so we promised them an outdoor activity afterwards at Hyde Park which was fun. The kids spotted some cute squirrels which were quite funny to watch scampering about and up and down trees and gathering their bits and pieces.
We walked back to catch our train via Harrods just to say we’d been there. It was packed with Saturday afternoon shoppers. The crowds and traffic and the constant police sirens made it all quite hectic. For some reason I kept thinking that they bomb places like this where the rich people shop. We didn't hang around too long. It was about 5pm by this time and we were all starting to feel a bit ragged. We finished the day at a small restaurant near our hotel where we had nachos and club sandwiches for dinner.
We spent the rest of the day on the tube getting to the Natural History Museum. It took ages because the Jubilee line which is the direct train we would normally have got on was shut for maintenance so we had to take this circuitous route around inner London. By the time we finally arrived I nearly couldn’t be bothered. But the museum was so fantastic and absorbing – so much to see. A few of the highlights for us were the lifesize dinosaur exhibition, the massive mammals including the blue whale and the marine fossils display. There was way too much for us for one afternoon. The museum building itself is also very beautiful and is a world famous London landmark known as the Waterhouse Building named after the young architect Alfred Waterhouse who designed it after the originally commissioned architect died.
The area of Kensington has several other museums too but the kids can only take in so much at a time so we promised them an outdoor activity afterwards at Hyde Park which was fun. The kids spotted some cute squirrels which were quite funny to watch scampering about and up and down trees and gathering their bits and pieces.
We walked back to catch our train via Harrods just to say we’d been there. It was packed with Saturday afternoon shoppers. The crowds and traffic and the constant police sirens made it all quite hectic. For some reason I kept thinking that they bomb places like this where the rich people shop. We didn't hang around too long. It was about 5pm by this time and we were all starting to feel a bit ragged. We finished the day at a small restaurant near our hotel where we had nachos and club sandwiches for dinner.
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