A day trip to London without breaking the bank!

Lizzie has been asking to go to London for a while now but we've been putting it off due to the cost. Train tickets would be around £150 for the four of us! So we looked into coach travel but I don't travel well on the coach so that was a no too! The only other option was to drive, madness I hear you say?!? Well, not so. My partner put out a request for suggestions where to park on FB and we had a few. We went for Hounslow West station, it was £5 to park and it's on the Piccadilly line so took us straight into the centre. Children under 10 travel free so we just paid £8.90 each for an all day travel card.
We changed at Kensington South (the stop for the museums) then took the District line to St James Park. We started our tour at Buckingham palace and saw the end of the changing of the guard.



From here we walked through St James park, through the Mall and onto Trafalgar Square. We had lunch at McDonalds as I had some luncheon vouchers I earnt through pinecone surveys.
After lunch we walked down to Downing Street, and across to the Thames opposite the London Eye.

After some photos and a quick rest (and an Ice-Cream) we headed to Big Ben and the Houses of Parliament.

From here we took the tube to Kensington South to visit the Natural history museum (free entry) The queue at 2.30pm was long! But it was moving quickly. We decided to stick it out but said we'd just do the dinosaurs today as it deserves a whole day there.

It's such a beautiful building, I loved it. Having been as a child I hadn't realised just how stunning it is. I'm intrigued about it, was it built for the museum?
So all tired out we headed back, after buying some postcards of course!

So I think we've proved it can be done without spending a fortune.
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