Best laid schemes

...o' mice an' men
gang aft agley...

But not for us!

Last night DH and I spent nearly four hours scheming our London holiday with the family. We've got all our transport times. We've tried to figure out how to see the important bits without having to walk too much, on my dad's account. So here's the plan:

Check in hotel in Bloomsbury and Tube to Tower Hill, where we will tour the Tower of London.

Then we'll get Docklands Light Railway at Tower Gate to Greenwich. This will take us past Canary Warf and other important places.

After having a look at Greenwich (Prime Meridian and all that), we'll get a Thames River Catamaran Cruiser back up the Thames to Embankment. This is a guided cruise pointing out all the sights on the London skyline, viewed from the water obviously.

Then we'll stroll from Embankment up to Trafalgar Square and some point catch a Tube back to our hotel in Bloomsbury.

Day Two is a choice for Dad and DS to make between a day trip to Hampton Court Palace (which I opt for) for a second day of London sightseeing. Tonight I intend to make a Day Two Plan B itinerary to hit some other London hotspots that are covered on our London Pass. They can choose, but whichever one they choose, we are getting the 19.00 train to Bath out of Paddington Station, to arrive in Bath at 20.30 and check in to our hotel.

Day Three we will tour Bath, which will be much less frenetic as it is a compact city centre and can easily be looked around in a day. We must see the Roman Baths and Bath Abbey. Other than that, we can just have a wander, or catch the Bath Bus Tour. Whichever they want. Then in the afternoon, we're going to back London Paddington to make our connection to our return journey to Nuneaton.

That should have them knackered out!

134.6 this morning. Eating was better yesterday, I suppose. Distinct lack of veggies at dinner, but I ate a ton of courgettes at lunchtime.

Where is everybody? Are you all busy?

Holidaaaay... Celebraaaaate...!

The itinerary sounds like fun.  On my last visit to Jolly Ol' England, our friends took us to Hampton Court and it was delightful beyond our expectations.  (We got lost in the hedge maze.  Only found our way out by referencing the overhead photo in our guide book.  Never had more fun feeling so dumb.)  So it gets my vote, too.

Have you considered buying a double-decker tour bus pass?  It, too, comes highly recommended.  It sounds a little campy, I know, but they really do it right.  Witty tour guides provide humorous narration and they hit all the hot spots.  You've got the options of either riding the tour in its entirety (which takes about 2 hours) or hopping on and off the busses at various stops (which run very regularly) to take a little extra time if you prefer.  Plus, you get the world famous experience of seeing London from the second story of a double-decker!  I loved it, and figure there ain't a better way to get a feel for the historic and cultural experience of London in a couple hours.  Honestly, I was amazed at how pretty much every significant event in western history for the last 1000 years has somehow flowed through London.  Fabulous.

Whew.  Did I oversell?

;-)

In any case, I'm jealous.  Have fun!

I'm jealous too!

I've been to London about four times now, but there's still so much I haven't seen! I'll be there for a day (en route to Spain) in September, and the plan is to see the Tower of London (which we missed by about 5 minutes on our last trip). And I would LOVE to see Bath! Ah well, I guess It'll have to be on the next trip. :)