Day 7
Covent Garden today.
We are setting our
goals a little smaller as we get tired.
Subway ride drops us very near the
market building and we walk down a little somewhat car-less mall.
To say that London is congested with
car is a laughable understatement. It's plain old crazy.
We were very early after the opening,
so we could walk about and see the vendors finish their setting up.
Noisy buskers were ramping up their
routines, gathering the curious with their theatrical voices, hailing
the crowds like moths to the flame.
A place where everything and anything
is available. An enormous Lego sleigh, Santa and Reindeer!
Slowly, as we walked around the aisles
got more crowded.
To the point where we were feeling squished. “let's
get out of here for a coffee and a sit down.”
We head for the main
street and the tide of the crowd is against us.
We are suddenly crowd
fatigued.
"Let's go to Kew Gardens", since the weather is
so beautiful anyway, we might not be lucky tomorrow for the sun.
This is a fairly long subway/overground
ride. Kew is well on the way to Heathrow, and, as it turns out, right
under the landing path for it, on a clear windless day.
A charming Victorian and earlier
village with lovely little shops and cafes. A very short walk to the
park itself and we are in! I will never get over the sight of
beautiful ancient trees, green alleys fringed with shrubberies and
gigantic airliners looking for all the world like they are going to
land next door.
Well, pictures are worth a thousand
words, so, here are the pictures.
Of Palaces, greenhouses, cottages and peacocks. The day was filled with trees, the views, surprises, sunshine and wonder.
Waiting for the train to take us home, looking around one last time at all this Olde Tyme Charme.
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