Well, 21 hours on a plane with kids is interesting to say the least. There is only so many times they can watch the movie 'hop' , and that number is three. Standing in the queue at heathrow we were the red eyed, concrete eyelid family who the attendant took pity on , and let us jump the queue (only after we had spent 45 minutes in the queue) So here we are, all awake at 4am and ready to go.......so , London, ere we come eh!

Day 1. Tourist day. With all of us awake at 4am, the day started early.... By 8.30 we had walked the Thames, crossed the Westminster bridge, ticked off the houses of parliament, big Ben and buckingham palace, seen a pushbike commuter accident (which had the kids talking longer than the first three) and had walked through st James park and Green park. Our unashamed tourist day continued with us seated in the first 'hop on hop off' double decker of the day. These...