London Theatre & Sightseeing with Derek, Wendy & Jeanette

Meeting up at our London Docklands hotel, checked into our rooms and set off for a ride on the “Emirates” cable car ride which took us to the “O2” centre. We headed to the SKY studios where we were filmed reading the news and sports. We had our photos taken with some of our favourite stars.

 

We woke to beautiful weather on Wednesday, which was to stay with us for the whole of the holiday! We walked to the DLR and got off at Tower Gateway where we wandered around the Tower of London and walked along the Thames and lunched close to the Monument. Three brave souls went up to the top gallery where we had splendid views over London.  It was then onto Trafalgar Square and we jumped on an open top bus for a ride around London seeing many of the famous London landmarks. We stopped back at the Embankment and went for a drink in a pub that was famous for Sherlock Holmes having drunk there. From there we walked into Covent Garden, watched an escape artist and saw the lights that had recently been turned on.

 

On another bright and sunny day, we set off to Horse Guards Parade before walking through St James Park to Buckingham Palace where we had a great view of the changing of the guards and the parade of horses and gun carriages. We then jumped back onto an open top bus that took us to the Natural History Museum and we all enjoyed the wonderful exhibitions in store with dinosaurs and many other interesting animals and relics.

 

On another morning we set off for the Tower and got on-board a boat that took us firstly to Greenwich and then onto Westminster. It is a great way to see all the magnificent buildings along the river bank. We then jumped on board another open top bus which took us to Regent Street and went into “Hamleys”, the biggest toy shop in the world! It was brilliant to be able to handle toys and enjoy the displays by the salesmen. It was time to move on to theatre land where we firstly had dinner and then went on to the Cambridge theatre were we saw the highly rated “Matilda”. It was a great musical and very funny too. The cast were wonderful and we thoroughly enjoyed the show.

 On the last morning, after breakfast and having packed up, we walked along to the “Siemens Crystal” and looked around the exhibition which gave us an insight into conservation. Lunch was taken before saying our farewells and heading home. It really was a great few days and we all had made new friends too.