Royal Hospital Rd, Chelsea, London SW3 4HT
We started out early to walk to the newly reopened National Army Museum
After all of our explorations around the Thames Embankment, we discovered that we really need
to have a better map. We never found the museum that promised so many interactive experiences.
Another day with a better map, we'll take a bus and find our way there.
This is what most of Kensington Gardens looks like. The gardens filled with flowers are an occasional sight in a vast partly wooded part. As you can see there is a lot of room for
dogs to run and play.
National Art Library
Victoria and Albert Museum on Cromwell Road
their bright yellow jackets and black helmets. It took only a moment to discover why the traffic had come to a halt. The Household Guard were riding down the street towards us.
We actually do not go about London looking for these mounted ceremonial guards.
We just seem to bump into them wherever we go.
Walking down Sloane Street
we passed almost every big name in couture.
This window is a Gucci display with old fashioned flowered wallpaper as a background.
Dior
Bottega Veneta
We were fascinated by the backdrop for all of these handbags.
Goes without saying this is a Prada window.
These old London buildings are leaning on the very modern Danish Embassy.
An interesting old facade
Sloan Square
Bronze statue on Sloane Square
Buildings along Sloane Street
The best place for a portable John. One flight up instead of on the sidewalk.
We walked along the street next to this incredibly beautiful private garden.
We saw one person sitting on a bench and some tennis players.
Closed and locked garden
actually next to the hospital, but we were looking for it on Chelsea Bridge Road or
the Chelsea Embankment. It was only a few blocks away on Royal Hospital Road.
Before we knew it we were walking along the embankment and seeing Battersea Park across the river
.
Pagoda of Peace from the opposite bank of the Thames
We crossed the river on the Albert Bridge out of step
Battersea Park
Maybe a heron. Definitely not the usual denizen of the parks we frequent.
He was holding so still that we wondered for a moment about this quiet bird with its
reflection in the lake.
Achilles statue at Hyde Park Corner
The statue was meant to be a tribute to the Duke of Wellington.
Do you see the likeness? Picture from a Cabbie's view of London page
We saw it today without any water in the fountain.
Bayswater closed for construction by Conway, the reason that
there were no buses running from Hyde Park Corner to a stop close to our apartment.
Buckhill Lodge Hyde Park
With buses not running on Bayswater, we were a little wet and chilled by the time
we entered Nando's for lunch.
Mostly I was impressed by the egg shaped salt shaker. Wooden with only one hole.
Similar to the Professor's lunch. He had a 1/4 chicken.
The ratings on this site did not list our restaurant on Bayswater among the top 10,
nor was it among the bottom 10.
Swan asleep on the Serpentine
I don't think I have ever seen this plant before. A tall green plant that is
covered with flowers at the moment
Both of these following plants were in the locked Cadogan Square garden.
This plant looks as if a small blooming shrub has been placed on top of
a tropical broadleafed plant.
Interesting plants in Battersea Park that I am not familiar with. It looks like a craft
project made from green pipe cleaners.
Pochard ducks
Are these Cattails? Below is a photograph of the real plant.
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