Tuesday 7 July 2015 This morning we began at the British Museum, where they had the best security we have encountered thus far. There is so much stuff in there that it's a bit overwhelming! We had a few hours to spend there before we had to go to Harry Potter, so we tooled around in the Enlightenment Room, Europe, and Egypt before shopping a bit. Then we walked to a market to get lunch, which we ate in Bloomsbury Park. I made the mistake of tossing a bit of ...

Monday 6 July 2015 This morning, we woke up and headed to London Bridge; the boys went to the HMS Belfast, while the girls went to the old operating theatre. The museum was quite small, but once the school group got into the actual operating museum, we had the place almost to ourselves. We saw all kinds of cool surgical instruments, medical specimens, and medicines. The only downside was the tiny, steep spiral staircase, which was difficult to navigate for tw...

London - Day Three We woke up and headed to Greenwich on the DLR, which was great since it's the station closest to our flat, but since it's Docklands Light Rail (DLR) instead of a tube station, it was open. It will be grand to have our station open again tomorrow. I was thinking today that's it's a good thing it was open Friday evening when we arrived or we would have had a REALLY hard time finding our flat! We got off one station early so we could walk thro...

4 July 2015 Oy, what a day! We started out to get the tube to Leicester to pick up our London Pass, only to arrive at our stop, Bow Road, to find it closed. There was a worker guy there who told us to go a bit farther down the road to Mile End, and go from there… but it is on a different line. It was packed, and it ended up taking us over an hour because we had to change lines. Then we waited in line, got the passes, and had to change again to get to Tower...

Hello, London! We woke up today and got one last breakfast from the Carrefour to enjoy in our posh suite. Then we got dressed, checked out, stashed our luggage with the concierge, and headed towards the palace. It was really pretty. Then we went to the Old Master's Museum for a couple of hours, to see some pretty art. We went into the old section, which specialized in Flemish artists. We also got to see some modern art, which of course was weird. There was...