London swings like a pendulum do!

Woo hoo! London is great. We've been on the underground, we've been on the bus, we visited the mummies at the British Museum and the dummies at Madame Tussaud's! Some went to Wicked and others to Billy Elliot (fabulous show!!!), we've shopped at Harrods and flopped in Kensington Gardens. We've seen the London Eye, the Changing of the Guards (a bit underwhelming I have to say!), the Houses of Parliament and we heard Big Ben strike twelve. All in all it's been great.

Our apartment in Bayswater is lovely - very handy to two different tube stations on different lines - this proved a real boon as the Circle Line was down a couple of times and we would have been a bit stuck if we hadn't had the option of taking the Central line. It is only a 3 min walk to Kensington gardens too. This has been great for the kids. We took them geocaching in the park one afternoon which was a bit of an adventure. We had just got to that part of the gardens furtherest from any kind of shelter when the rain came down! We all huddled under the big trees and managed to say reasonably dry. To keep the children entertained until it eased up I told them 'spooky stories'. I was just building up to the climax of the tale when suddenly........Gran popped out from the other side of the tree! We had left her at home doing Gran stuff, but she had decided to come and join us; managed to locate where we were (Kensington Gardens is huge!) and then was able to creep up on us and scare the life out of us!

The geocaching team!

The other fabulous thing in Kensington Gardens is the Princess Diana Memorial Playground. Our kids spent hours playing here - it is the most gorgeous and inventive playground I have ever seen - with a real focus on imaginative play.