Take your time

We’ve finished our stint in London and are now headed north on a train to Sam’s uncle’s house in Caistor, a small village in Northeast England near Hull.
On Thursday and Friday we saw some top London sites — Stonehenge, the British Museum, Westminster, Tower of London and did a Jack the Ripper walk.
Of all the sites we visited, Stonehenge was the only one that we felt we had enough time to see.
Because of the bus tour we booked, we were allotted an hour and a half to see the mysterious stones.
It was more than enough time to take the full audio tour and listen to a few extra tidbits of commentary available. We were finished with our tour in an hour and were ready to head back to London early, although the cold wind and driving rain probably had a lot to do with that.
At every other site, we saw a great deal and took in a lot of information but felt we could have spent at least a couple more hours at each site.
There’s so much to see in the British Museum, Westminster and at the Tower of London that it’s almost overwhelming.
If I have any advice to future travelers visiting London is take your time when visiting museums and realize you can’t see everything.
I’d meant to post this while on the train to our next stop, but wasn’t finished by the time we had to get off.
The English don’t mess around when it comes to train stops. If your stop is next, you have to get your luggage ready at least five minutes before the train comes to a stop and be prepared to get off once the doors come open.
The passengers leaving get off quickly and the people getting on barely have enough time to set their bags down before the train starts moving again.
It’s a very efficient system and really drives home the packing light mantra espoused by so many authors of travel books.
We’ll definitely heed their advice when we go to mainland Europe the first of June.