The big achievement of the day was negotiating our way to Dover on public transport. A cab was impossible to find, I went searching up Regent St and brought one back to meet Gab, the kids and our flotilla of luggage. All that Tetris time meant we somehow wangled our way in to the cab and on to St Pancras. Boo and I went breakfast shopping at M&S and got trapped in a queue returning to the platform just as boarding commenced. We chose a carriage with only one empt...

The tube strike has had no effect on the people around here, everything is just as packed as ever this week. We left the British Museum for today so we didn't need any transport - we walked up Shaftsbury and Fid remembered the Forbidden Planet store he clocked the afternoon we first arrived. This place is stocked up with every kind of trinket from every kind of cult sensation from the last 40 years. Figurines of every Doctor, a Walter White dressed for the co...

Up early in the morning, I had barely cleared the sleep from my eyes by the time we got to Paddington. Fid was so excited he didn't want to hear about checking what platform our train was leaving from, he just wanted to take action and head on through the gate. Luckily the Paddington bear store at His self titled station was too much for him to resist, but not for long. An uneventful two hours saw us debark at Cardiff station, that means we're in Wales. T...

Kidzania is a mini real life city built for kids. They get to role play over 60 different jobs like Police, Dentist, Ambulance driver, Cadbury factory worker, F1 pit crew, Pilot, H&M Model, check out chick, chef, etc. Whatever they do they get paid for and then have to chose if they want to spend or save their money. Westfields invented it as a childcare option, allowing you to drop off the kids for hours and go do some real world shopping. Through the doors at W...

The top two things on the kids list were Hamely's and Pineapple studios, both of which are right on our doorstep. Covent Garden was first, strolling through the westend I didn't realise how many theatres are in the roads off Shaftesbury, you wouldn't need to walk more than a few minutes to visit nearly a dozen of them. If Boo was excited to visit Pineapple Studios, the store where they get to cash in on all that expectation stood no chance - Gab & Boo...