An ordinary Sunday in London..pictures by me!!

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Yesterday we went into the city...not to do any tourist things, but just to visit one of the bigger parks ( Regents park) mainly to allow me to walk to exercise my back ..London Zoo is at regents park we didn't visit there, nor did we visit the open air theatre because we were too early for the first show...however we enjoyed the park, then we took off from the park down the towpath to Camden Lock, and to the famous Camden street market. As is always the case the market was so packed it was almost impossible to take photos...but outside the market hall there are lots of small high street shops and stalls selling tourist tat..so I took a few photos of that...then we walked and took tube trains up to China town, Leicester square and Piccadilly Circus ...

So this is not a day in the life of Tourist London with Buckingham palace, Tower bridge, millennium wheel or museums and art galleries...This is the day in the life of an ordinary Sunday in central London, albeit with thousands of tourists in the pictures...

Hope you enjoy...

We start off with Royal Regents park, which is very pretty , almost totally laid to lawn with rose gardens and little flower beds dotted here and there and with surprisingly few visitors yesterday ... it has sports fields, a boating lake and the world famous London Zoo inside ...these are just a few pictures I took of the walk through..

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There's a small allotment area outside one of the gates where they have set up an area to teach people how to grow food organically...and so I was surprised to see this fella leaning up against one of the sheds..

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me in Boots in 27 degree temps *duh*...forecast said it was gonna rain...it didn't.....and the pictures of me are the Only ones I didn't take..

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Lara said:
Holy Smokes! These are spectacular Holly!! Such detail and color! I love the fountain droplets in stop action. Cool.
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Well thank you very much Lara... :D..more to come in a little while......meant to say the droplets are flowing water...but yes clearly they look as tho' they've stopped in the pictures..LOL...from a distance as we approached the pigeon looked like he was giving hismelf a bath from the heat..but when we got to him, he was actually just dipping his toes in..very funny!!
 
Thank you kindly folks.... and Phil yes we do have some really lovely parks , regents park although big isn't anywhere close to the size of our biggest park.. Richmond park which is 3 times the size of central park...one day I'll go there which is completely the opposite side of London to me, and take pictures of the beautiful wild deer...( I have a few somewhere but I'll make a day of it properly hopefully in the Autumn)


some more...

A beautiful Black swan...

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We're leaving the park now and we walk across the road and walk down onto the regents Canal tow-path towards Camden town...


the first thing we see are the narrowboats and the Beautiful red floating Chinese restaurant boat..

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we stop off at a garden cafe for some refreshments and ice cream...


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Then continue on our walk along the canal side toward the milling thousands and the Camden town area.. with all it's shopping, bars, and cafes'...

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A few more restaurant boats of various design...moored alongside the canal..

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Some serenading Gondoliers...

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...and just cuz it's London...where else would you find a Cow on an apartment balcony on the Canalside? ...I defy you to find it in Venice.. ;)


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Absolutely loooved looking at your photos Holly, even the birds and squirrel were lovely! Thanks for putting them up for us, made my day! You look great too, those boots were made for walkin', huh? :love_heart:
 
LOL...just cuz you mentioned walking SB...here you are...and I promise no more pictures of me.. ;)

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..back to the towpath and as we come into Camden town and the street market we're straight into the hundreds of food stalls, restaurants and bars...totally packed..took this photo, but there were wayyy too many people crushed togetherto try for more...

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..so we walked up onto Camden high street ...

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...some little shop windows...

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..and some miniature guitars....for mouse sized budding pop stars..


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A few street Entertainers in Camden of the hundreds around the city...

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leaving Camden and onto the Tube to the streets around Liverpool street Leicester Square, China Town and Covent Garden ..... later...
 
LOL, funny thing about the squirrel was , I wouldn't have got such a great photo of him when he darted out onto the path from the trees, if it hadn't been for a family in front of me who immediately blocked the path of the squirrel calling ooh ahh when they saw him ..and the squirrel looked up at them and froze for a few seconds not knowing which directions to dart off..in that time I got my photo..actually 2 or 3... :D
 
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One of my favourite pictures is this one of the Gherkin building ( real name 30 St Mary Axe)...It's hard to get a picture of the whole thing standing close to it...but standing far away means it's blocked by other buildings... It's essentially a commercial Glass skyscraper 41 storeys high, right in the middle of the financial district

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Lara said:
Holy Smokes! These are spectacular Holly!! Such detail and color! I love the fountain droplets in stop action. Cool.
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AZ Jim said:
Beautiful pictures and lady in boots too!! *Smile*
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ndynt said:
Wonderful pictures, Holly. Such a beautiful park...enhanced by the lovely lady in boots. Thank you for sharing your day with us.
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SeaBreeze said:
Absolutely loooved looking at your photos Holly, even the birds and squirrel were lovely! Thanks for putting them up for us, made my day! You look great too, those boots were made for walkin', huh? :love_heart:
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applecruncher said:
Great pics, Holly. :) I agree with Lara - the colors and detail are fabulous.
That squirrel was "posing" haha!
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I love the Chinese restaurant! It's so nice to wander around London in nice weather. Too bad our next trip has to be in early November as our Ugandan daughter is overdue for a trip there. I doubt she'll be able to wear anything like this then!

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