First weekend continued (it was busy)

I only made it to part of Saturday! We spent Saturday evening walking around Kensington Gardens (after a bit of a confusing walk to find it - luckily there are tourist-oriented maps posted everywhere for people like us who have not thought to invest in a map of the city). Oddly enough none of the service people in the tube knew how to get to Kensington Gardens - walkie talkies were employed to assist us. I guess they don't spend a lot of time above ground? Finding the gardens was worth it though! (Although I believe Kensington Palace is under renovations right now so the entrance facing the gardens was fenced in). On one of the palace gates was a makeshift memorial to Princess Diana, presumably from the recent anniversary of her death in August.








Clare cavorting with a playful dog...








The gardens were beautiful at dusk and we are enjoying learning about the native bird species here in the UK - except for a few familiar faces - there were quite a few Canada geese milling about! There were some jolly looking orange-legged geese (Greylag geese, so the internet tells me). One exception to the beauty of the park was the monstrous memorial to Prince Albert. What an eyesore (although Keith might disagree with me). After a quick dinner in an Italian restaurant directly above the High Street Kensington tube station (we could feel every time the subway car rattled beneath us) we headed home.