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Stonehenge of course, even though it is no longer as accessible as it once was, due to fences that have been put up to keep tourists at bay. London is a walking tourist's delight, if your health doesn't restrict you from doing that. I lived in England for four years and married a London girl. During the approximately two years we were dating and engaged, I traveled to London at every possible opportunity. If she was working, I would spend the day walking London. Within walking distance you could visit (walking east) St. James Park, Hyde Park, Buckingham Palace, Trafalgar Square (head south), Westminster Abbey, the Houses of Parliament, Big Ben, (then head back east along the Thames), Tower Bridge, and a must for all kids of any age, The Tower of London. Also in London, are numerous museums that most kids would enjoy like the British Museum of Science, and the Imperial War Museum south of the Thames down at Elephant and Castle. Also, if you will be travelling throughout England, there are historical sites, too numerous to mention. One of my favorites is Warwick Castle, along the Thames west of London, near Stratford on Avon. If you go between the middle of June and the first of August, you can catch a production of "A Midsummer Night's Dream" on the grounds on the castle. If you don't tell your boys that it is educational, I'd guarantee that they'd enjoy it. If this was last year, I could offer the services of my twelve year old son, who lived in England since he was three, but has lived here in the U.S. since last fall. He's still busy catching up on all the things to do here in the U.S.. |
