The London Walks: Hyde Park
Between Christmas and New Year I spent some time at Anita's, in Marylebone... we had lunch with Sharon, and then after seeing her onto a train at Paddington, we continued on into the city, traversing Hyde Park with great stridingness. It wasn't as empty as it looks, but otherwise I think these pics capture the mood pretty well.
(We ended up in the Royal Academy that afternoon, sitting for hours in the Friends' Room after seeing the Rodin exhibition, drinking fruit tea and coffee as the winter evening drew itself up outside, and after that we went and saw An Inconvenient Truth at the Prince Charles (anyone who hasn't seen it yet, why not? I'm waiting for an answer), but I don't have pictures of any of that ;)).
6 comments:
I'd always imagined Hyde Park to be like our Hyde Park - hemmed in with buildings and filled with flower gardens, fountains, rotundas and statues of old famous people on pedestals, but it seems to be much more wild and bosky - VERY attractive and obviously meant for exploration and great stridingness!!
Good lord! Those look like a scene from 28 Days Later!
And I'm sorry, but 'stridingness' is NOT a word; I simply refuse to accept it. ;)
Refuse all you want, Captain Literal :p
The real question is - is there such a thing as "little stridingness"?
"Little Stridingness"? I think it's a village in the Yorkshire Dales....
i was there, it certainly was great strindingness, no question
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