Covent Garden: A great half term day out

October half term provides a great chance for school children to take a well earned break. Parents, grandparents and carers can be stuck with ideas as to how to best occupy their charges.

Luckily, there are many interesting, inexpensive - and whisper it quietly educational - activities with which hard pressed parents can seek to occupy their children.

Covent Garden provides a wealth of entertainment for people of all ages. Kids and adults alike can be captivated by the street entertainers in London's Mecca of street theatre. St Paul’s Covent Garden, the first Anglican Church to be built in London after the Reformation is often called the actors’ church. The Church is set in the heart of London's theatreland. Designed by Indigo Jones, it faces away from the Piazza and the entrance to the rear, overlooks a pleasant garden square.

Youngsters with an interest in planes, trains and automobiles will love visiting the London Transport Museum. Exhibits illustrate how both public transport and the capital itself have evolved from 1800 to the present day. Visitors can have a go at being a bus driver by sitting at the wheel of a London bus or drive a Tube train in a special simulator.

Secondary school aged children and their parents can find out more about the history of the Museums, Galleries & Performing Arts, London audio guide. The London travel guide begins outside the National Gallery. Listeners then walk to Covent Garden via Leicester Square. This London mp3 guided tour concludes in front of the British Museum. To hear an audio sample from the Museum, Galleries & Performing Arts audio walking tour please click here.

The Museum, Galleries & Performing Arts London iPod travel guide is one of five Walk Talk Tour city walking tours of the English capital. Each of the Walk Talk Tour London audio guides is available in English, French, German and Spanish.

A Walk Talk Tour London audio walking tour represents excellent value at just £5.95. Purchase two tours simultaneously and you will receive a twenty per cent discount. Buy three at the same time and get thirty per cent off.

To find out about the opening times and admission charges of the key attractions along each tour's route check out our Where & When pages.