“Can we go on one of those?” asked the 6yo, pointing at an open-top tourist bus, as we crossed Lambeth Bridge on foot.
“Nope” I said. “Those ones are expensive. We can do better than that…”
I’m a firm believer that there’s no better value London tourist attraction than sitting up top of a regular TFL double decker just taking it all in. I lived here for nearly a decade at the turn of the century, but sitting up there, in the front seats if possible, floating around London in a little bubble, never gets old.
The 87, which stops on Millbank right across the river from our temporary home at the Novotel, might be one of the best. Up to parliament, past Westminster Abbey, Big Ben, along Whitehall, past Downing Street, Trafalgar Square and onwards to Charing Cross and the Strand.
Not bad for the price of an Oyster tap on. We got the front seats too.
