You'll still have to cut some things - count every 'biggie' taking the best part of half a day. That

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I will impose again on the community for a little more London input. We are in London for 5.5 days in August. I have identified the following 9 "sets" of sites I want to visit when we are there. I am guessing we don't have time to do all of this. Two questions -
1 and 7 can be done in one longish day. Go to the Tower (this will wipe out 3.5 hours), walk back to the Monument, eat lunch, visit St Paul's, walk across dementor bridge, visit Globe Theater, look at outside of Tate Modern (because the inside is modern art, which is a 50% accurate phrase).
3 and 4 is a day plus part of night. Go to Buckingham lpga futures tour Palace early and mock the guards like every other yokel or just take pics, walk to Parliament Sq, look at the tall tower with the clock, enter place where royalty is crowned and tour, walk to War Rooms ( www.daysoutguide.co.uk for discounts) and visit. That should wipe out the morning and part of the afternoon. Walk to Trafalgar Square, enter National Gallery of choice, visit St Martin, then walk up to Pic Circus/Leicester Sq area, pitter around. Covent Garden is thisclose to Leicester Square (walk - it's the shortest train stop in London from LSq to CG on the Piccadilly). Haven't been to the Handel Museum in 6+ trips to London. Marble Arch is . . . an arch, of marble.
Forget Harrod's except the food halls. Go to Jermyn Street and Saville Row. You could go to the Library/Museum for the morning and early pm then go to Jermyn lpga futures tour Street etc. in mid to late afternoon. You don't have to go to Pic Circus/Leicester Sq area just once.
Initially I'd drop the Handel Museum, Piccadilly/Shaftesbury Ave/Soho Sq (if you go to the theatre one night you'll see them then), the Strand (its just a street), Kensington Palace (unless it is one of your 'musts'), Sloane Street, Albert Hall except from the outside and across the road from the Albert lpga futures tour Memorial, Oxford (sorry but you simply don't have enough time).
You'll still have to cut some things - count every 'biggie' taking the best part of half a day. That would include travel times and stopping to eat. Your biggies include the Tower of London, St Pauls, Greenwich, (which really takes more than 1/2 a day), Westminster Abby, Cabinet War Rooms, National Gallery, British, Tate Britain, Tate Modern, Hampton Court . . . Leaving you not much time for anything else.
The Tower of London will take at least 2-4 hours but the Tower Bridge is something most people just look at or walk across. There is an exhibit but you certainly don't need to go in and do it in order to enjoy seeing the bridge. St Pauls will also take a few hours if you want to look at everything and climb to the top. Did you want to climb the monument (pretty similar view to St Pauls) or just see it? On that day you could probably also have time to visit Borough Market (great place for lunch) which is on the south bank but near those other things. The other things in that area are the Tate Modern, Globe Theater and Millennium Bridge. How long do you spend in museums - some people could spend hours in the Tate but if you just want to see a few highlights (it's free so lots of people just pop into museums in London for a short time). Also did you plan to tour the Globe Theater or just 'see' it? Depending on the answers to these questions, lpga futures tour all these things could be done in one day.
So you basically need to answer the question "how long do you plan to spend IN" some of these places. Some of the places won't take long at all because they are streets lpga futures tour or squares or bridges which you'll just walk around. But you have a fair number of museums on your list and people vary greatly how long they like to spend in museums and that's the key to whether lpga futures tour or not you can fit all this in.
As for the 'day trips'. lpga futures tour Oxford will take all day but I think it's 'worth' it. Greenwich I did in half a day but I didn't go into the observatory. Hampton Court I have not done (am going this summer) but most things I've read says it's 'about 3/4 of a day' trip. In 5.5 days I don't think you have time for all of these plus the things on your list (unless you drop some or most of the museums).
The food halls are definitely worth seeing IMO (but I personally think not as impressive as they used to be). But it really depends on your time -- as it is you are trying to fit a size eleven foot in a size five shoe.
Remember it is your holiday, if you REALLY want to go to Oxford, keep it in but you may have to cut things out from your London wish list. Also if you are in Knightsbridge I would absolutely pop into the Harrods food halls..... I agree ref Fortnum and Mason ( best Christmas puds) IMHO and great food hall. Really Sloan street is just that, a street with expensive shops... Not really a tourist lpga futures tour destination although you could have a walk down the kings road, up to Sloan Sq and then just walk up Sloan street to Harrods. But that wouldn't be on my top 5 things to do in London!
Why don't you make a list of of "non negotiables" and go from there. Whenever lpga futures tour I go somewhere new I always decide on what are the things I HAVE to see and work those into my days and then realistically see if I can add in the nice to haves ( and you also need to add in some free time for the gems you find you didn't know existed.......
I did Greenwich lpga futures tour in half a day (including the Observatory) but I was by myself and am a fairly fast walker. After that I took a train to the fairly new Docklands Museum which was fascinating. Second trip to London, though.
If I could return to only one more place in London before lpga futures tour I die, it would be Sir John Soane's Museum at twilight, followed by the Tate Modern, inside, thank you very much, and either the Wallace Collection or the National Gallery to see the Arnolfini Wedding. British Museum? British Library? Meh.
I have been going to London since Christmas, 1954, when a lot of modern London was still bomb sites, empty blocks full of the rubble of buildings destroyed by German bombs. lpga futures tour So that's 60 years ago, and I haven't seen it all yet, though I have been in some outlying places, for sure. So, see what you love, enjoy what you see, and budget to go back.
"our" London. We buy chocolates at Carbonnel et Walker, go to the theater, have afternoon tea at Richoux and a dinner of Steak Mushroom Pie and Sticky Toffee Pudding at Brown's Restaurant, and attend lpga futures tour Sunday morning worship at St. Paul's.