How To See London in One Week

I figured that I would wrap up my London posts with a final post on how you can make the most out of a trip to London. I only spent around a week (well, more like 9 days) in London but I saw SO much stuff. Once you orient yourself in the city, getting around is easy and quick, making seeing a lot of sights simple. If you look at the list and think "There's no way to do all that in a week", trust me. I did most of it in 4 or 5 days because 4 of my 8 days there were partially taken up by teaching in classrooms. Keep reading to find a few of my sight-seeing recommendations that you can fit into a week-long trip.

Visiting Kew Gardens

After our first day of teaching, our group journeyed a few tube stops further to visit Kew Gardens. This Royal Horticulture Society Garden is AMAZING. We only had time for two of the glass houses, the palm house and the Princess of Wales Conservatory, and only a small fraction of the garden. It's just so big! And the highlight was the private tour we got to take of the science division (no pictures of that, sadly) and their MASSIVE herbarium. 

Teaching Days

The primary goal of our trip to England was to teach lessons at four different schools. The first was Brandelhow Primary School. I got to co-teach in a 3rd-year classroom where we did a lesson about apples. We read a story and had kids act out the different parts and showed kids the star in the center of an apple. We also had them taste apples. We're not allowed to take pictures with the kids for obvious reasons, but I've included a few pictures of their schoolyard garden.

Free Day 1: Exploring London

Our first full day was a free day that we filled with some of the most popular sights in London. My feet hurt from walking but we saw the changing of the Guard at Buckingham Palace, The National Gallery, Big Ben and Westminster Abbey. I also had my first fish and chips meal of the trip along with hard apple cider. I'm not legally able to drink in the states so that was super fun for me. :)

England Post #1: Wisley Gardens

Hello everyone!
I've been back from my trip to England for a few weeks already, but I took so many pictures that it took me that long to find time to go through all of them. So this is the first of a long series of photo posts where I'll share most of what I saw while over in England. This trip was for a class titled "Successful School Gardens" and there were several days in which we went into schools to teach children about gardening topics and the importance of horticulture. We did, however, have several free days and a few group outings to famous gardens around London.
This first post is all my pictures from our first destination: Wisley Gardens. We literally got off the plane and got on a bus to go to Wisley and it had to be the best cure for jet lag EVER. The day was warm and sunny and felt just that much better since we had come from below freezing weather to mid-60s weather. Or whatever that is in Celsius...
So enjoy the pictures! I'll have much more for you soon!