We had a four-day weekend in the middle of May, so we took advantage of it to visit London; it's just a 2 hour and 15 minute ride on the EuroStar, the high-speed train that takes you from Paris to London's famous St. Pancras station via the Channel Tunnel.
London was busy—and this was before the Queen's Diamond Jubilee in June and the Olympics in July (all those people in the last picture were not going to the theater, they were just passing by). But we had good weather and a great location near the Victoria London train station. Although we barely scratched the surface, we got to do many of the usual suspects, such as the London Eye, Parliament, Westminster Abbey, Buckingham Palace, St. James' Park, Trafalgar Square, Piccadilly, Harrods, Covent Garden, the Tower of London, and Tower Bridge.
We loved riding their double-decker buses down the narrow, congested streets, and were lucky to be able to get on one of the old ones. We even got last-minute tickets to The Lion King, the musical adaptation of the film, which the whole family loved and as our friend Karin mentioned, is a wonderful introduction to the theater for kids. Unfortunately we did not have time for museums—which I'm sure the kids weren't sad about—and many other things, so this is definitely a place we need to go back to in the future.
