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Sgt.Pinback:
Your Sgt.  and his little family (THE wife and daughter (14)) will be in London 11. - 18. June.

Wife and girl will do what they can do best: extreme money spending.

Hotel will be in Kensington at Hyde Park Gate.

Apart from the obvious tourist traps... any insider hints where we have to go / what to see?

SteveW:
This is in Greenford, west London.

Well worth a look:

http://www.london-motorcycle-museum.org/

K2-K6:
Depends on what interests you but should be something that's able to cater for variety of tastes.

South side of river walk from opposite houses of parliament going east,  best view of North side famous buildings, London Eye (worth the trip)  modernist theatre,  Oxo tower,  then along to Tate modern gallery,  Millennium "wobbly" bridge and crossing it to St Pauls cathedral.

The bike shed, combines retro modded bikes etc with clothing helmets and bike "clobber" along with restaurant / burger bar with bike orientation.

Docklands area and Canary warf for interesting cityscape and plenty of places to eat.

For shops,  Kings Road from Sloane Square to Chelsea has more of a flavour of individual shops rather than some of the specifically commercial offerings.

River trip from Chelsea going east to Greenwich will give you a good trip with great views of the city and passing through tower Bridge. These are just scheduled services so should be easy.

Open top bus trips are a rip off  >:(

Covent Garden area,  general and varied shops,  eating etc. My daughter a 13yr old likes this area for the different clothes shops she wants to see. Compact but you could spend a day here if you can't drag her out of it  :)
This borders principle theatre area if you have that interest.

What interests you that we could suggest something for?

taysidedragon:
Away from the city centre is the Ace Cafe on the old North Circular road. They have bike nights regularly and are open every day. A good hangout if you have a couple of hours to kill.

MrDavo:
I have limited experience of London, the Eye was good for the views, but on my list of things to see was Westminster Abbey, where we marry, invest and bury our Royals. It’s a magnificent building with tons of history.

Rather than pay the £16 or whatever it is to visit as a tourist we turned up in the evening for Evensong, a service of about 45 minutes, it’s free, you sit right at the centre of things and get to see and hear the choir do their thing.

We don’t really do religion, but we’re happy to go along with it and mumble in the right places for the experience.

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