Palaces and purchases

Thursday 15th May 2014

Blog post written by Mr 14

Today was a day spent walking amongst the palaces, monuments and shops of London. We started the day by walking to Kensington palace.

It was a beautiful day as we had our picture taken in front of  a statue of Queen Victoria, also in the background you can see Kensington palace.

Next we wandered through Kensington Gardens into Hyde park. We walked along and the girls were particularly anxious to take a picture of the squirrels that infested the area, peering down from above at the pair of young girls hopping around the bottom of their trees. After chasing a couple of squirrels that continued to a elude us, we made our way to the Albert memorial as can be seen below.

We then walked along further into Hyde park and came across the Diana Memorial Fountain where the girls and Mr 11 traipsed through the water with bare feet.

We then walked onwards until we decided to aim for the road so we could catch a bus to Buckingham Palace where we had our picture taken outside of the gates by Mum. The palace is massive. I can see now how they have so many unused rooms. (Pretty good place to hole up in a zombie apocalypse too).

Next we walked to Pret a manger to buy a lunch that we then took across to Green Park were we sat and had a little picnic amongst the deck chairs.

After lunch we caught the tube to Covent Garden we proceeded to shop the rest of the day. We found the Tintin shop down the road from where Mum used to work, and that is where me and dad made our purchases. For me a shirt and for dad the Tintin in Russia book. We then proceeded to make our way further into the market. Myself and Mr 11 found a Forbidden Planet store that we were particularly impressed with but failed to make any purchases.

Afterwards we caught the tube home to end the day.