Skating London Style

Our friends from Boston, the Rs are visiting us. They have been to London several times before and have done quite a bit of the “usual” things to do here. So in our role as hosts we wanted to come up with some fun things to do that you couldn’t do just anywhere. I think we found it.

We knew the R girls liked to ice skate because when we all lived in California, we used to rent a ski house every winter. Usually one or two times during the ski season we would take the kids to Squaw Valley in Lake Tahoe. At the top of one its mountains, Squaw had a skating rink and tube run. The kids loved the day off from the skis and went from skating to inter-tubing all day long, with a several hot chocolate breaks mixed in. So I heard that there were several ice skating places in London so I thought we could do that. But Chizz told me he heard something about skating at the Tower of London. So I checked into it and found they actually set up a skating rink in the moat! How cool is that? Wait, don’t answer – I will answer for you. Pretty darn cool!!! Here is a picture so you get the idea.


The kids skated for an hour with the Tower of London right in the background. Not many people can say they ice skated in the moat of the palace where Sir Walter Raleigh was imprisoned or Anne Boleyn got her head chopped off . We got some great photos. In fact for those of you that know both us and the Rs, you might get the same Christmas card photo this year – deal with it!