help with London

[aimeekitty]

Help for newb London Tourist? :)

So Mitch and I got plane tickets to go to London(!)
we'll be there starting Christmas Day for about a week.

but then I realized that maybe it will be impossible to find food and find something to do on Christmas day and also Boxing Day (the day after christmas). Thoughts?
I heard that stores typically have sales at least starting on the 27th, so... if we can find enough to do for the 25th and 26th, we should be ok, right? Is there anything we can do, tourist-wise, that would be open? (maybe something we can look at from the outside?)

are grocery stores in the UK open on Christmas Day? lol. will we starve?

Suggestions welcome on things we should "Definitely Do" on our trip.
We'll be confined to London, mostly, due to time constraints. I've never been to the UK, so I'd like to do some of the typical tourist stuff. We also like good food and good shopping.

to ply you with treats in exchange:


from "School Reunion" Sarah Jane, the Doctor and Rose:

Comments

[shigatsuhana.livejournal.com]

Guard changes usually finish at Whitehall. If it's Horseguards, then they start at Whitehall. IMO, Horseguards are more interesting to watch. But, it has been many years since I've watched all of that. If you live here, you tend only to do it when you've got visitors. :)

What do you mean by a £20 minimum? Places in the UK have £5 minimum if anything. Most places don't even care. But if buying postcards, you should most likely pay cash anyways since most of those type of vendors don't take cards. Maybe things have changed a little in 11 years. ;)