Hyde Park and Kensington Gardens 7-13-08

I went with another library student to Hyde Park and Kensington Gardens. We took the underground to Bond Street and entered at the Marble Arch and Speakers' Corner. There were only 4 or 5 people on their "soap boxes" at the time, though, so we continued our walk across Hyde Park, over the Serpentine bridge, to Kensington Gardens. We found the Peter Pan statue and I got a picture with it. We also went to the Italian fountains and noticed that there were lots of artists selling their works on the street-side at the Lancaster Gate exit. I found some great buys in the form of unique gifts to take home for friends and family. Apparently, the street-side vendors are a regular Sunday activity there. We then ate lunch at a restaurant named "The Swan," and walked back down through Kensington Gardens to the Albert Memorial, where we saw the Royal Albert Hall across the street. We continued walking through to the Flower Walk. By that point, we had done a good bit of walking, so we turned around and went back to the Marble Arch exit, where we walked down Oxford Street, until it became so crowded we decide to take the underground back to the dorms.

http://www.royalparks.org.uk/parks/hyde_park/