London is, well, full of stuff to do. Hit the web sites for whatever it is you like to do... Good restaurants by Charing Cross, the Imax, the Film Theatre, the Eye. St Pauls and its dome is good if you like architecture. Walking tours of London are especially great IMO. With regard to the guards, yeah, you can, but it doesn't necessarily work. I read a while ago of two japanese girls who found a guard standing behind a white line labelled 'Do not cross' in Buck House, while the Queen was in residence. Knowing the 'annoy the guard' game, they started trying to distract him, without success. Eventually, they stepped over the line to get closer, and in a flash he brought his automatic rifle to bear and yelled 'GetbackbehindthewhitelineNOWorIfire!". One assumes he had been dying for them to give him the chance to do that ;-) Justin.