Taking a walk on two London’s Parks/Carlos Pueblo

Taking a walk on two London’s Parks/Carlos Pueblo

Kensington Park and Hyde Park are next to each other and passing

through Hyde Park Corner is Green Park of Buckingham Palace. St.

James Park is next to the Green Park. They are all inside the city of

Westminster, the former pair is larger than the later, and all can be

taking a walk within a day. There are white swans resting on lakes

and all parks are beautiful. After viewing Buckingham Guards Change,

the two ladies from Tainan took us to tour, Green Park, St. James,

Wellington Arch, Trafalgar Square, Household Calvary Museum ,

10 Downing Street, and to Westminster Abbey and Palace etc., all

inside the city limit and within walking distance.

Kensington and Hyde are the two parks which I have taken a walk for

Two days in my 10 days staying in London. After putting down my

Luggage, I took the Tube subway to South Kensington and walked toward

Albert and Victoria Museum. I missed an exit and ended up at Natural

History Museum. Keeping on walking, I came to Albert Hall and Albert

Square, the bright golden statue attracted me. This is the beginning of 

Kensington Park. Prince Albert is the spouse of Queen Victoria and Victoria

had been on the throne for a long time with admirable achievement. The

Museum has abundant collection of gold, gold coins, jewelry, swards, and

precious art works etc. There are some small gardens inside the Park, such

as variety of tulips, some unknown  flowers, also on the trees. I walked down

to the lakeside path with several blooming flowering cherry trees. I recognize

the kind, Alkebono, means daybreak cherry , a derivative of Yoshino cherry

from Tokyo. It is two weeks late bloom in compare with Tidal Basin, Washington,

D.C.

White swans, group together, stick their neck to the lake water for food. Long Lake

has a lot of birds, such as ducks, geese, pigeons etc. flying up and down the lake.

I was sitting on a bench watching people feeding the birds. At the end of the lake is

Hyde Park Corner, you can see the busy intersection of Wellington Arch and others.

There is a roses garden under Queen Elizabeth’s name and also two weeks before

blooming time. Two Taiwanese ladies took us to the Corner to see the famous

political forum at Hyde Park, actually it was long gone nowadays. The old area is

marked, yet nothing left. There is a pavilion for bands to perform during summer

and a food stand now.

Two days later, I walked down to another entrance of the Park and under an Asian

Indian lady’s recommendation to visit Kensington Palace. It is really a pretty garden

And architecture, not far away, there is a Princess Diana’s Memorial.