Last tour of London

After 15 years of the big smoke me and the family are moving back up north. Before we go up the missus is taking our daughter skiing but my dodgy knee won't oblige, so instead i'm doing one last epic fixed tour of London with trailer in tow carrying my 3yr old son Stanley. We're going to spend one week late March touring as many sites around London as possible and would like some ideas of places to go to, parks, cafes, ships, museums and such like, the more unusual the better. We're based near Croydon but distance isn't a problem but can't say that about hills and my knowledge of north and east London is limited. Any ideas would be most welcome.

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I love visiting Greenwich for the day seeing the Maritime meuseum & the observatory.

So where ooop north areyou headed?

Large group of people giving you a send off?

Stockton Heath just south of Warrington, missus is relocating to Manchester but being a scouser i obviously can't take the risk of my son sounding like Terry Christian!

Just 15 miles south of paradise

Try and stand on the bridge that goes over the east part of Royal Albert dock looking west over City Airport. Watching the planes land and take off can be pretty fun, best as it gets dark. (A117)

Links up via quite roads to the Greenway. This is an old route of mine via some quite roads. Not quite as far as the Greenway but it will give you some ideas of how to get across.

http://www.gmap-pedometer.com/?r=3299004

No big send off for this tour, leavin do's will be arranged but this is just a farewell to London and will drop in on a few friends along the way.

Tommy that's a good one, links up well with the waterlink way as well and he loved the woolwich ferry when we went to watch the tour of britain. Anyone know if its worth going further up to the Olympic park to view anything around there?

Postman's Park with the Watts memorial wall, around the corner from the Museum of London, is a lovely little gem, particularly at the weekend when the City is quiet (the Museum may be worth a visit also).

For NE London, Abney Park Cemetery, off Stoke Newington Church Street is a great bit of unofficial country side and up the road from Clissold Park (currently partly being redeveloped); not far away is Finsbury Park from where you can take the Parkland Walk, a disused railway line (you can also cycle it) up to Highgate.

There is also the Lea Valley and Regent's canals which can be picked up at the Lime House basin.