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Areanor
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Posted: Fri 29 May , 2009 2:33 am
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My daughter just revealed to me that she intends to visit London next year.

Obviously she thinks with one year of english lessons in elementary school she'll be able to get around easily. :scratch:

So I plan to take her next year, maybe in June or August for four days or so. She'll be nine then.

Any ideas what to do and where to go? She definitly wants to see the London Eye. :roll: I doubt the London Dungeon would be the right place to go, but there should be something away from the trodden tourist paths worth visiting. (As I don't want to spend lots of precious time in a queue with her)

Greenwich? Hampton Court?
Might there be a London Guide book for children?

*wanders off, looking for her London Guide Books*
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edited for setting up a to-do-list:
- ride a double decker bus for sightseeing (upper level, preferably the open ones - hope for good weather)
- London Eye, Big Ben (Jana's wishes)
- Covent Garden (my wish)
- New Tate (do they have a Kandinsky there?) with the Millenium Footbridge
- Scones (but where?)
- Museums (British / History / Science?)
- Kew Gardens

and the not-to-do-list:
- musical ( her english is too poor)
- London Dungeon ( too creepy, she won't even go into the ghost train on the fun fair)

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Posted: Fri 29 May , 2009 11:35 am
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Go look for Peter Pan in Hyde Park. :D St James Park is lovely as well. Of course, there are parks everywhere in the world....but I enjoyed them. :)

I remember being rather fascinated with chasing pigeons but then I was 5 the first time I was there, not 9. :P I know we went on one of the double decker bus tours when I was that age as well....I remember loving sitting in the upper level of the bus, but not exactly everything that we saw. :P We also did the London Zoo, but zoos are zoos...and I don't really know where it is in relation to the city.

If I were little again and in London...hmmm...I'd go look for Peter Pan in Hyde Park, have ice cream in Covent Garden, go see Big Ben. Do you think she'd have the patience for or find amusement in a proper afternoon tea? With trays of sandwiches and scones and pastries or cakes, some earl grey...mmmmm. :love: Very British/English, anyway. The first time I was back in London again for school/first semester of Uni we did afternoon tea at the Orangery near Kensington Palace and that was nice.

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Posted: Fri 29 May , 2009 12:27 pm
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The Natural History Museum. :) Great for kids.

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Posted: Fri 29 May , 2009 1:46 pm
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I agree with the Natural History Museum and the Science Museum is close by with lots in to entertain children. The Victoria and Albert (The V and A) Museum is also nearby which is packed full of decorative arts if you want to give yourself a treat too. Bear in mind London is big with lots of scattered small centres. With a small amount of time it's best to pick one compac tarea to explore.

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Posted: Sat 30 May , 2009 10:49 am
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Go see 'Wicked', or 'The Lino King'. I haven't seen either, but I've heard both are great!

The parks are awesome, and they do great hot dogs. Kew Gardens are also marvellous.

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Posted: Sat 30 May , 2009 2:55 pm
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Speaking of Kew Gardens, this looks fun:

Kew Gardens opens treetop walkway

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Posted: Sat 30 May , 2009 4:17 pm
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What does your daughter like to do and what is she interested in most? History? Science? Art? Buildings? Entertainment? High Tea?

Once that is clear, it will be easier to figure out activities and sights that might please her! I'll have been here for 3 years by then and could definitely give you some ideas! I could also help with ideas for accommodation.

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Posted: Sat 30 May , 2009 5:26 pm
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Crucifer wrote:
Go see 'Wicked', or 'The Lino King'. I haven't seen either, but I've heard both are great!
I know they make musicals of *anything*, but the story of a linoleum tycoon seems a tad... dunno. ;)

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Posted: Sat 30 May , 2009 6:00 pm
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Posted: Sat 30 May , 2009 7:56 pm
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I dunno if that or swapping the i and o is worse. The Loin King, anyone? :P

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Posted: Sat 30 May , 2009 9:21 pm
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Woopsie. :P

Hey, Jude, wanna collaborate?

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Posted: Sat 30 May , 2009 9:53 pm
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Posted: Sat 30 May , 2009 10:08 pm
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"I wander loinly as a cloud..."

"Someday, all these loins will be yours"

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Posted: Sat 30 May , 2009 10:43 pm
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I prefer The Lino King. It joins those eternal classics:
Fiddler on the Floor,
West Slide Story
Oak Laminate Homer
The Killim and I
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Posted: Sat 30 May , 2009 11:11 pm
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Posted: Sun 31 May , 2009 7:33 pm
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What about the Tate Modern? Free entry, I don't remember ever queueing there, and it's in easy walking distance of the Eye. :) If my memory serves me correctly, there's Shakespeare's Globe somewhere near the two, though I've never been in.

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Posted: Sun 31 May , 2009 7:49 pm
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The Globe Theatre is a fair walk down south bank, but certainly doable from the Eye. It's just near the wobbly millenium footbridge. :P Short walk from Mansion House on the....circle and district lines, me thinks, that goes across the footbridge. And London Bridge stop on the Northern line close by as well.

I miss having to go to the Globe Theatre for my classes. :bawl:

One could feasibly take a walk from Westminster Abbey by the Houses of Parliament, cross the bridge to the Eye and the Tate Modern, walk along the south bank passing the Tower of London on the other side and Tower Bridge eventually coming down to the Globe Theatre. (Really this is partly me planning out what I'm going to do when I finally make it back to London one day. :P)

There's also the British Museum in the north on Russel Square with such artifacts as the Rosetta Stone and the Elgin Marbles taken from theeee.....Pantheon, right? Temple of Athena. I always get the Pantheon and Parthenon mixed up in my head. :blackeye:

And! There's the museum of London. That's somewhere near....mmmm....St. Pauls, I think? Pretty sure the St. Paul's underground stop was nearest anyway. The bits I remember of it are a little traditional old street walk through-ish thing and perhaps one of the Queen's carriages? And some video of a woman that got trampled in the middle of a horse race. I don't remember what that had to do with anything. :Q There's also a bit of the old standing roman wall outside one of the windows with a plaque about it. Quite fascinating.

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Posted: Sun 31 May , 2009 8:14 pm
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And some video of a woman that got trampled in the middle of a horse race. I don't remember what that had to do with anything.
She was a suffragette protester who threw herself in front of a horse to help get women the vote.

Her name was Emily I believe.

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Berhael
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Posted: Sun 31 May , 2009 9:05 pm
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Emily Pankhurst. :)

And it's the Parthenon friezes that are in the British Museum. The Pantheon is Roman. :)

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Posted: Sun 31 May , 2009 9:23 pm
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I've got a great one, but maybe not for a 9 year old:

"Caaaan you feeeeeeeeeel the looooooins toniiiiiiiight?"

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