Luggage And Bags: The smaller, the better. Hotel rooms can be cozy at best and you can end up tripping all over a lot of luggage.
Clothing/Shoes/Weather Gear: Good walking shoes and socks, a light, waterproof coat or jacket, a small backpack and an umbrella. Dress in layers - the temperature can vary during the day. Throw the jacket in the backpack if it warms up.
Toiletries & Medical Supplies: An electrical converter (if you bring a hair dryer, electric razor or digital camera). We like to carry a small travel pack of premoistened towellettes - good for cleaning up hands and wiping your face when it's hot. It even does duty as toilet paper in places where there either isn't any or it's really awful stuff.
Photo Equipment: Film was expensive - throw in a little more than you think you'll need.
Miscellaneous: Keep a small bag in your backpack or purse for any garbage you might end up with. Due to the the possibility of terrorism (namely explosives) you won't find trash cans anywhere near the most historical sites. In fact, even the gift shops couldn't accept any waste. As with most large cities, trash in London is a problem so make like good campers do and pack out what you can't dispose of at the moment.
Bring a small highlighter - they come in handy for marking maps and highlighting guide books.
We bought a plastic, accordian-fold legal letter-sized pouch with sections to store our passports, plane tickets, tube passes. extra cash, and photo-copies of our credit cards and passport IDs in. This kept all the important stuff in one place and was easy to toss into a hotel safe until we needed it.
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