Kensington Gardens

Kensington Gardens is the garden surrounding Kensington Palace in London, England.

Kensington Palace, the residence of several members of the Royal family.
I have expected something more extravagant. It is a rather modest looking brick building, considering that some of the future rulers of the British Empire live there.

The gardens are open to the public and people can just walk around and enjoy the view. There is a museum in the place (you need to buy a ticket), but I did not have the time to go in. One could spend days in the garden alone and probably still would not see everything.

The statue of Queen Victoria.

The place looks rather modest for a building that is called a palace, the only sign that royals live there was the gilding on the wrought iron fence.

The gardens are supposed to be really the gardens around the palace, like your garden in your back yard but fit for a royal residence.

As the sun rose the park quickly filled with people and started to look normal to a European like myself the way places in North America never do.

There are lots of statues and sculptures and monuments in the park.

A sculpture entitled Physical Energy.

I also liked the idea that one can walk around in peace, and cyclists are required to dismount (which appears to be a common occurrence in London).

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