Nothing Like Your Personal Guide



The New Inn, a great ambiance, good food and
better yet, good company

 



Beautiful old trees along the canal





  

Protesters camp

 


The protesters of peace have set up camp across from Parliament

  


Parliament

 



Crossing Abbey Road

 


Mansions on the canal are owned by countries
for their ambassadors






A cemetery dating to the early 1880's was placed here far from
any residential area and now in the middle of a busy St John's Road area has been
converted to a beautiful park.

  

Nothing compares to the beauty of the English gardens



I would like to recreate the color of
this garden

  We took the tube to St. John's Wood and arrived early to meet Dick, and some things seem to be almost of a sacred nature (like being lost or being early or late) only to discover this beautiful park and cemetery of the early 1800's across from the giant Danubius Hotel Regents Park.  The traffic is so busy (take your life in your hands) on this corner and yet you can have a stroll through this uncrowded corner and sit down in a pew of The First Church of England next door for a few quiet moments (chances are you will be alone).  We met Dick as he arrived from his flight and had a drink together before he took a short rest.  This is not one of the small world phenomenon happenings as Dick arranged this flight when he knew we were going to spend a couple of days in London on our return. We said hello and Dick went off for a short rest and we went to the Churchill Rooms. Three hours was fascinating but you can't do it all in one trip.  The tube is a way of life here and it is a wonderful mode of transportation that we caught on to fast.  Later back at Danubius Hotel we take off walking with our personal guide who has spent untold amount of time in London as he has flown maybe thousands of times here.  We walked past Paul McCartney's house which was walled in, gated and no number.  Of course we walked across the famous pedestrian walkway, Abbey Road.  We did not look like the Beatles.  The traffic must have stopped for them.  Dick showed us Regent Park Canal which you would never find as a tourist.  It is an incredibly beautiful walk that Dick takes when he is in London.  Could you find a more crowded destination than Venice in the Summer, but here it is.  How remarkably easy to escape the congestion of this crowded place with loud traffic and sirens.  The trees along the canal are magnificent, the mansions beyond description.  Dick took us to one of his favorite neighborhood restaurants, exactly our kind of place.  It has rained intermittently during the day and we have been on the streets for eleven hours.  Dick flew from Vancouver and flies out again in the morning, so we will call it an early evening.

 





  


A barge going down Regent Park canal,
What a way to travel.