london sightseeing
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Looking for a bit of advice please , I want to take my daughter (age8) up to London on a saturday but by car to see the sights . She has been up before by train but only seen buck house , tower bridge and the eye .
I live in north Kent so will come into town either by a2 or a20.
My car is a boxster spyder so want to maximise the convertible effect of a bit of sightseeing!
A route to take in many landmarks and a few bridges would be fab.
Thanks.
I live in north Kent so will come into town either by a2 or a20.
My car is a boxster spyder so want to maximise the convertible effect of a bit of sightseeing!
A route to take in many landmarks and a few bridges would be fab.
Thanks.
Edited by davidc1 on Sunday 3rd July 23:19
Don't do it, it's really not worth driving through london unless it's the middle of the night, you wont be able to park anywhere near where you want to go and if you do it'll cost you a fortune.
If i ever have to drive to london, i drive to euston station, park in their underground carpark and take the tube, it makes much more sense and it costs about £18 for a days parking.
If i ever have to drive to london, i drive to euston station, park in their underground carpark and take the tube, it makes much more sense and it costs about £18 for a days parking.
Do a walking tour and get up close and learn stuff rather than just drive past places.
http://www.walks.com/
http://www.walks.com/
did you ever make the trip up? you can make a morning drive around London quite good IF there is nothing else going on, no roads closed or major diversions...that is a big IF. if there are, forget it. Check ahead blah.
If there are no major events, or even pointless minor ones like some 10k social run around the west end that closes half of London, then go early and go for it.
the a2 into London via blackwall tunnel, then Rotherhithe tunnel along Jamaica road towards tower bridge is good in the morning. cross tower bridge then follow lower thames street all the way along until it becomes the embankment will take in most of the sites. watch out for fixed speed cameras. you can then loop through whitehall and along the mall up to buck house. turn right at st James's palace to cut through where the queen takes her corgies to church and up past the ritz and over to albermale street and round to new bond street or you could go right at this point and end up in berkely square gardens or near enough to it. I think there is still a Bristol garage on the square. There is certainly a Porsche garage at carlos place which takes you past the Connaught - you could stop there for morning tea - and head along mount street which will bring you out onto park lane and past the Dorchester down to constitution hill past the wellington memorial and birdcage walk past the barracks and on to Westminster itself and Robert's your father's brother.
If there are no major events, or even pointless minor ones like some 10k social run around the west end that closes half of London, then go early and go for it.
the a2 into London via blackwall tunnel, then Rotherhithe tunnel along Jamaica road towards tower bridge is good in the morning. cross tower bridge then follow lower thames street all the way along until it becomes the embankment will take in most of the sites. watch out for fixed speed cameras. you can then loop through whitehall and along the mall up to buck house. turn right at st James's palace to cut through where the queen takes her corgies to church and up past the ritz and over to albermale street and round to new bond street or you could go right at this point and end up in berkely square gardens or near enough to it. I think there is still a Bristol garage on the square. There is certainly a Porsche garage at carlos place which takes you past the Connaught - you could stop there for morning tea - and head along mount street which will bring you out onto park lane and past the Dorchester down to constitution hill past the wellington memorial and birdcage walk past the barracks and on to Westminster itself and Robert's your father's brother.
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