Top Kensington Gardens Hotel

... yet another few mins and you get to Piccadilly Circus. And can you believe how close Buckingham Palace is to Hyde Park and Kensington Gardens? The place that I visited just this morning. And here I was thinking "cool I am going to visit 2 different parts ...

... waling distance of my hotel: marks and Spenser, h&m, top shop, restaurants, etc. I walked a little ways down to Kensington palace. The gardens surrounding are beautiful! Lots of people biking, jogging, and playing with their dogs. (The frolicking dogs ...

... Mum's wedding dress and veil - very 1920's - simple, elegant, not over done." After lunch we walked around Kensington Gardens/Park and stumbled upon the Princess Diana Foundation Children's Playground near the Inverness Terrace Gate in the extreme NW ...

... nearby" was The Diana, Princess of Wales' Memorial. It seemed to me as if the day before, when we had passed through Kensington Gardens, I had noticed that Memorial on the London city map. But as all that mania around Princess Diana, both before and after ...

... of the palace) and had tea, scones, lemon cake and finger sandwiches. It was really fun! After that we walked through Kensington Gardens and found the Peter Pan Statute. Unfortunately, there were no stores nearby that sell any replicas. Sorry, Jessica! ...

... from Mary Poppins. The first interesting monument that we came across while riding through London was the Albert Memorial, in Kensington Gardens. The Albert Memorial was commissioned by Queen Victoria in memory of husband, Prince Albert. The monument is ...

... and returned to the hotel. Sunday London A day for doing all the remaining odds and ends. Started by walking in the Kensington Gardens in the lovely sunshine, walking past Kensington Palace, the Albert Memorial, the Royal Albert Hall and the Diana ...

... made her ascension to the throne. I gawked for a bit more then headed west and checked out Notting Hill and Kensington. Kensington Gardens were stunning in the snow and I took a stroll, admiring the snowmen and the insane local joggers - in shorts! ...

... with Dom, one of Annabelle's friends. Monday 2nd July Mark and I went for an early walk through Dianna's backyard of Kensington Gardens. Summer here is great....wet, grey skies and about 12 degrees! With such fantastic weather we decided to show ...

... in chilly London.  We kept walking to stay warm but this at least meant we were able to get a good look through Kensington gardens even though it is all bare trees and the occasional residual pile of snow.   We stumbled upon the Albert Memorial ...

... . Too bad we already paid for the Big Bus tour because he nearly took us on their route. Tony Blair's house, Kensington Gardens, all over the western part of the city to get to our hotel. Along the way he shared stories about his ...

... holder for smallest room ever (small even by London standards)which we later moved from, we went to Hyde Park and Kensington Gardens, visiting the Albert memorial and the tributes to Diana at Kensington Palace (fifth anniversay of her death). Then did a ...

... Jase or I are very good at sleeping on planes. So we napped, then it was off to explore! We wandered down to Kensington Gardens to see the Princess Diana Memorial Fountain - which wasn't going!! Bit of a disappointment, but we kept going until we got ...

... Diana playground was great, we spent hours there and could have been there even longer. It was beautiful walking around Kensington Gardens and Hyde Park. Quite amusing the way they have lounge chairs scattered around different parts of the gardens for ...

... a thing.             We decided to limit ourselves to the Hyde Park/Kensington Gardens area. London is so big and its attractions spread so wide it would be impossible to plan a day without limiting ...

... nbsp;then quit the bus tour and took the tube straight to Harrod's.  After some quick gift shopping, we headed back to the hotel to freshen up and meet up with some friends.  We had a nice dinner at an Italian restaurant, and it was really ...

... for bed. It's been an exausting day! (well not really exausting, however we have been walking around a hell of a lot) Tomorrow - Kensington Palace, one last look around Oxford Street, dinner - French please! - and then back to the hotel to pack. Were ...

... and settled in for the night.   In the end it didn't really worry me as it was my last night at the Rydges Kensington Plaza. Tomorrow morning after check-out it was off to the Royal National Hotel for one night before I began my tour of ...

... sit and contemplate amongst the families with their children happily splashing and paddling in amongst the flowing water boundary. Back to the hotel we go - via a very VERY long walk through the park. Think we covered more than 10km today, but it has ...