UK Tourist & Leisure Attractions

Our first stop was Covent Garden and there were plenty of street entertainers to keep the crowds happy.  This guy with the orange Mohican was handing out knighthoods!
 

As you can see, there's a lot of people around Covent Garden despite it being early in the London tourist season.  Looks like London is going to have a busy 2006 season!

Inside Covent Garden with plenty of specialist shops.  Belinda's on the right wondering where to go next.

Another street entertainer at Covent Garden, this one balancing on a unicycle and juggling.
 

A short walk via Chinatown and here we are at Leicester Square in the centre of London's West End entertainment industry.  It's good that many areas are all within easy walking distance.  Please see our UK tourist links for websites to many of the places we visited in London.

Next stop, The London Trocadero, a shopping and entertainment complex full of whizzing escalators going in all directions.
 

After a walk up Regent Street and a so so Latte in Starbucks, we walked the length of Carnaby Street.
 

The sprawling London Underground has 275 stations across 12 subway lines and a complex information system.  We bought a one day travel card that included main line travel as well as the tube.  See our links page for travel websites, both London and UK.

After our fix of wandering through the West End, we headed for Hyde Park.  Mike's seen here licking his delicious ice cream and trying not to make a mess like he usually does!

We walked to the other end of Hyde Park and along the length of The Serpentine.  Despite the indifferent weather there were plenty of people hiring out in boats on the lake.
 

No, Mike isn't constipated, just as Belinda took this picture at the Princess Diana Memorial, the heavens opened and gave Mike a drenching!

Walking along the other side of The Serpentine we observed this beautiful rainbow over Hyde Park, unfortunately the picture doesn't really do it justice.