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If you're at Legoland in Tuesday we may be there. So you may wish to change your plans.

The kids are 5 and 3.

The Science Museum is also very cool depending on their preferences, and it's just round the corner from the Nat History one.
I always like walking from the Thames, past the houses of parliament and up to Buckingham Palace if it's a nice day - it's good to see some of the landmarks.

Second vote for the science museum. Seems to have better capacity than the nat history museum and there's cool interactive stuff.

If you're down Greenwich way, it's pretty cool taking the elevator down and walking under the Thames. This can of course be combined with getting a boat down the river.

The horniman museum in forest hill is good for natural history needs, though is a bit out of the way.

There may still be the Dahl exhibition at the Hayward on the south bank, which would be worth checking out.

And as someone said earlier, don't worry about the tube. Just LET PEOPLE OFF THE FUCKING TRAIN BEFORE BARRELLING ON.

The Horniman is awesome. They have a stuffed walrus and a mermaid that someone made by sticking half a monkey to half a fish.

Sounds very much like the Pitt Rivers here in Oxford, which has a similarly wonderfully eclectic collection (Beex Day Out in the winter?).

The Horniman is awesome.

Obv we can't do the city in one day, but anyy hints on where we should head for a day trip with two young kids would be appreciated. Any commuting tips from Windsor, also?

A NORTHERN man has left a trail of terror across London by attempting to interact socially with everyone he meets.

Stephen Malley has left residents of the capital traumatised by his relentless onslaught of cheerful chat and maintained eye contact.

Euston ticket office operative Julian Cook said: “I pushed his Travelcard at him while staring fixedly downward but instead of scurrying off, head bowed in shame, he just stood there.

“I realised that his earlier remark about London attractions was not addressed to a Bluetooth headset but to me, and that he actually expected an answer.

“I closed my position immediately and have an appointment with the trauma counsellor.”

Malley’s campaign of terror spread to pubs, where he attempted to engage strangers with prying questions about what sort of day they were having. Later he left an entire tube carriage confused and angry with multiple light-hearted remarks about how crowded it was.

Malley said: “I’m actually a surly, miserable bastard, but when Northerners come down here we do this to ensure the people of London never visit us to discover our beautiful landscape and abundant, cheap housing.

“What a relief it was to arrive at Warrington station last night and tell the Big Issue seller to go fuck himself.”

Now for real advice:

The Natural History and Science Museums are both world-class. You won't go wrong with either.

The Tube is fine outside of rush hour, as others have said. (And it's not usually that bad during rush hour either.) Don't forget you don't need travel cards any more, you can just use contactless payment cards on all public transit and you'll pay the same fare -- so no need to queue at ticket machines. Kids under 11 travel free. Citymapper is the best app for cross-London navigation.

Science Museum/Nat history is good.

If you want to see some sights for cheap. You can do worse than getting the river bus from The London Eye to the O2 Arena/Millennium Dome/whatever it's called, Getting the cable car across the river, then DLR to Liverpool Street, and then the number 11 bus (takes you past St Paul's Cathedral, Trafalgar Square, Whitehall, Houses of Parliment, Westminster Abbey, Westminster Cathedral, Victoria Street, Buckingham Palace Road [but not the palace itself] and on down the Kings Road, you could get off at Sloane Square, and 1 stop the tube to South Ken for the aforementioned Science Museum/Natural History Museum)

What sort of day do you want? Just spending ages in a museum with a relaxed schedule, or do you want to see more stuff? Do you want to find some specific kind of place to eat?

And what's your schedule like in terms of arrival time and leaving time?

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If you plan on the museum taking 3-5 hours (depending on your little 'uns appetite for such things), you'll probably want a shorter thing planned also.

Here's a 35 min walk that takes in the Houses of Parliament, the Mall, Buckingham Palace, Green Park. There's a Tube stop at either end (Hyde Park Corner and Westminster). That could be a good morning activity if you do the museum in the afternoon, or vice versa.

The Tube is fine outside of rush hour, as others have said. (And it's not usually that bad during rush hour either.)

If you're looking for relaxing and taking in the sights, I don't think I can recommend the BOAT highly enough.

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If you're looking for relaxing and taking in the sights, I don't think I can recommend the BOAT highly enough.

Can never tire of that triangle between Parliament, Whitehall, and Buck House. Access to Downing Street might be tricky, mind - cut across Horse Guards (under the arch opposite Banqueting House) instead.

So you can actually walk down Downing Street (sometimes)? I just assumed it was blocked off.

So you can actually walk down Downing Street (sometimes)? I just assumed it was blocked off.

Don't press the "open" button on the tube doors

I once watched MrsDoc's train roll into the train station where we were meeting, she looked at the doors, she looked puzzled, then the train left. You *do* push the open button on surface rail, as I explained to her later...