A walk through Kensington Gardens …

Monday 17th October

Today we started off the morning by packaging up and posting off the numerous leaflets we have accumulated to try and lighten the weight load. Then we headed to Kensington High Street shopping centre to do some shopping. As we didn’t end up buying anything, we then decided to go and look at the Princess Diana Memorial in the Kensington Gardens which was nearby.

We saw the outside of Kensington Palace which was Princess Diana’s home and also where William and Kate stay when they are in London. Kensington Gardens is a huge park with lots of trees and a really lovely place to walk through. We walked over to Hyde Park which is separated from Kensington Gardens by a lake and then came to Princess Diana’s Memorial Fountain. The fountain is amazingly unimpressive!

We continued walking through Hyde Park until we came to the exit near Wellington’s Arch. I got a photo of the Archilles Memorial which is made out of melted down French canons from the Napoleonic War. We wandered over to the impressive Wellington Arch and had a look also at the relatively new Australian War Memorial, which was completed in 2007.

As it was getting late we managed to catch a train (together this time!) back to Earl’s Court. When we arrived there, we bumped into an Australian couple who were on the last tour with us. Who said London was a big place?!!

Last day tomorrow, so hope to have a final look at what London has to offer.