Hi everyone, I'm bringing my car to London next week (10-12th December) and I have a few days off. I'll be driving from either West or Central London to a few zoos. My itinerary is still flexible, but here's a rough idea: Monday: Marwell Maybe also Bournemouth Oceanarium & Gardens Aviary If ridiculously ahead of time, potentially also Monkey World Tuesday: Blue Reef Aquarium Hastings Port Lympne Wednesday: Unsure - maybe a quick Buckinghamshire trip? (e.g. Waddesdon + St. Tiggywinkles +/- NHM at Tring) As things stand, the car will be quite empty, but why not try and fill it with zoochatters? Let me know if you're interested in coming along.
I've had a very interesting few days. Almost all to plan, and quite fun too. Although I'm now out of London, I added a day at Whipsnade today and tomorrow might visit Birmingham too. I'll upload a few photos soon.
It's great that you have so many attractions in London. I was there quite a few times (for a couple of weeks if you add it all up) last year and never came close to seeing everything that I wanted to.
Actually all of these zoos/aquaria are some distance from London - they're quite difficult/expensive to get to by public transport in winter, so I decided to take my car down and visit them for my first time. (I made it to all mentioned collections apart from Monkey World.)
The UK's so small that I just expect anywhere to be within an hour from anywhere else. And I know what you mean about difficult to reach with public transport. I looked up the route to Whipsnade but it took quite a while and when I went to Twycross I ended up on a small community bus with a bunch of elderly people.
