The Elephant Parade in London

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We ended up on an impromptu elephant hunt this past weekend when we went to dinner at Gaucho's near Tower Bridge and started spotting the stunning life-size elephants that have been painted for the Elephant Family conservation campaign.

Two hundred and fifty have been customised by artists and celebrities and will be auctioned to hopefully raise £2m to help save the Asian elephant as well as also contributing to twenty UK based conservation charities. Visually delightful and gracing parks, street corners, buildings, and areas around historic landmarks, they'll be on display until July and I've promised the kids we'll go on another elephant hunt which will be carefully planned for me to swing by a few shops en route.... You can download a route map as well. Oh and they have a whole store full of mini elephant delights.

Funny moment was on the way back to London Bridge via a little stroll along the Thames, my almost three year old asked if we could go and see the hippos next - clearly she thinks London's turned into a zoo.