London Trip

Its been a busy few weeks with work, birthday parties, decorating the twins bedroom and workshops and we have even fitted in a trip to London which was fabulous.

My son treated the twins and I to a weekend in London for my birthday and we got to do the things we all really wanted to do.

We started with a trip to Parliament grounds as we got to London quite late so we decided to take a peek at Big Ben before we went over to the hotel, the first person we saw after getting out of the car park was Nigel Farrage doing a television interview in the Gardens of Parliament, unfortunately my boy needed a wee so we never got a chance to go over and have a chat, Oliver was ecstatic.

We stayed at an apartment in the East of London not far from Upton Park Tube station so getting to and from central London was easy.

The following day after having a good nights sleep we ventured into Parliament where we took a guided tour of  the House of Commons, House of Lords and Westminster Hall.

Oliver was overwhelmed at seeing the famous green chairs all the way round he kept asking are we going to the green chairs yet?. Our guide was fabulous, he was very informative and witty and went well over the 90 minutes and ended up staying with us for two and a half hours.

We had a walk along the river over towards to Tower Of London so that we could take a look at the Crown Jewels which Olivia was very excited about, along the way we did some sight seeing and took in the enormity of the Shard and a few monuments.

 

Once we got to the Tower we were delighted to find there was a BBC Food Festival going on so we ended up taking in a few tasty samples after seeing the Crown Jewels.

We had a fabulous walk back up the river and got to do some more sight seeing and stopped for something to eat.

 There was a lot to see and it was a long walk so we called it a day when we got to the end and headed back for the hotel to refresh for our last day.

We all woke up very excited to be going on the Buckingham Palace Tour, Olivia was very overwhelmed and excited.

It was a fabulous trip and we ended off with a walk on Trafalgar Square for something to eat from the Japanese Festival.

And then we headed off back home and waved goodbye to a wonderful weekend in London.