Today, Bob and I had a great 4 hour, 8 mile walk on a lovely summer day here in London. We walked through Kensington, where we’re staying, into Paddington, and then onto Primrose Hill, Camden Market, and Coal Drops Yard. This is the first of two blogs about our outing.

which is mostly lined with hotels
that look like residential buildings

and the one on the right is the Mongolian embassy.
We walked through one edge of Kensington Gardens. It was a lovely part of our walk today but wasn’t a destination, as we have visited the palace and much of the gardens on prior visits.



Our original destination was Primrose Hill for what we had read was the best view of London; however, since our walk was taking us through Paddington, I requested that we look up the new Paddington Pocket Park that I had read about.

on a street corner near the Paddington Underground station.

where famous people once lived or worked.
Sir Fleming seems especially important,
and there was a museum of his laboratory in this building.


which opened in 2017 and is built on pontoons

and it is aptly located on Baker Street.



