No idea why tourists with such limited time head to a traffic roundabout in Piccadilly Circus and a large brand of Boot’s the Chemists. Why don’t they pop down to the National Gallery just down the road and the National Portrait Gallery next door? Trafalgar Square is just outside and St Martin’s in the Fields church is opposite. And then it’s a short walk to Whitehall and the Banqueting House where Charles I was beheaded in 1649. Then see Horseguards Parade opposite and Downing Street nearby and then walk down to the Houses of Parliament - you can go in! And Westminster Hall where HMQ laid in rest - ancient building. Th only part left of the former Houses of Parliament. Westminster Abbey opposite. If you must, walk over Westminster Bridge - see the views! Feel the breeze down the river! - to the Aquarium and the London Eye. Take a Thames Barge trip to Greenwich or the Tate Gallery and the The Tate Modern. See the old Battersea Power station - you can go up a tower in a life for £16 if you nook in advance . Just don’t spend time seeing a traffic roundabout even though you can see a statue on it. Go to a park - there’s plenty of statues there. Or visit Temple Gardens and take your sandwich’s to The Temple - one of the Inns of Court and do to the Temple Church next door to see the memorial of William Marshall who died in 1219! The Temple Church is that old and used in lots of films. Just don’t go to a roundabout.
