London Day 15 Our last full day in London! Our day did not start out that well as we locked the key in the flat. Thankfully our Airbnb host, Alessandro, is a great guy and was able to get in and get the key for us. We still had one thing left on our "must-see" list to cross off and we did that today. We are disciples of Rick Steves and his European guidebooks. In many of his books he has walking tours of certain sections of cities. We had done most of his ...

London Day 14 Today we visited the Making of Harry Potter Experience at Warner Brother's Studio London. It was located about twenty miles north of London so we had to take a train and not the Tube. We got a little confused about which train to take out of Euston Station and ended up taking the long route (fifty minutes vs. fifteen). Our ticket's entrance time was for 9:30 and we did not end up getting to the studio until after 10:00. We were a little nervou...

London Day 13 We knocked another one of the "must-see" London sights off our list today as we experienced the Tower of London. We got going earlier than usual so we could see the Crown Jewels first before the big crowds. It was a good thing as the line was a lot longer later in the day. The Crown Jewels are quite old and impressive. It is hard to believe that most of the them have been around since the late Seventeenth century. The amount and size of the di...

London Day 12 The plan for today was to explore Hampton Court Palace. Hampton Court was the royal home of King Henry the VIII (mid-sixteenth century) and served as a royal residence until the time of King George II (early to mid-seventeenth century). The palace is located about a half-hour southwest of London by train. It is quite a picturesque setting as it is situated right along the Thames. We saw the Henry VIII apartments, the William III apartments, the...

London Day 11 Not much to share today. We left Manchester on the 11:00 AM train and arrived in London about 1:00 PM. The ride was relaxing. After waiting in line to get our Tube passes, it was a quick trip to our flat we arranged through Airbnb. We think we picked a good one. It is a two bedroom, two bathroom ground floor flat in the Pimlico neighborhood of London. The kids see happy because there is good wifi. Amy and I are happy because it is big and qu...