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Spending a day in Kensington Gardens is barely enough to enjoy this enormous park in the middle of London. Here is the famous stature of Peter Pan, celebrating where J.M. Barrie wrote this timeless novel, just next to the Serpentine Pond.
Enjoy the central Kensington location of our Cornwall London apartment rental with the world class shopping of High Street Kensington. Shops are open late and on Sundays, a rarity in Europe. The long street teams with trendy ready-to-wear stores, from H+M, to Urban Decay, Zara to Laura Ashley, home furnishings stores and food stores such as Whole Foods, Marks and Spencers and many more.
You are ten minutes walk from our Cornwall London vacation apartment to the famous ‘Museum Row’. You will be overwhelmed deciding which to visit first: The Natural History Museum, the Science Museum, the famous Victoria and Albert Museum, The Royal College of Music, The Royal College or Art or the less known Geographic Society. They are all worth a long visit!
The Natural History Museum and its glorious building with small garden surrounding it. It is less than five minute’s walk.
One of the many special expositions at the Natural History Museum.
Just beyond Kensington Palace is the Princess Diana Playground, with the theme of Peter Pan. Here is the Pirate’s ship, but you will find tee pee’s, a small fountain children can get their feet wet in, areas to explore and of course all of the monkey bars, swings, sandboxes and equipment that children can play on.
Here is the top of Queen’s Gate, the aptly named street around the corner from our Cornwall London apartment rental. This is the official entrance to Kensington Gardens. Next to the Gardens is the equally beautiful Hyde Park. People confuse the two parks because they run into each other, but even Londoners do. The two Parks together are one of the largest parks in the center of any City in the World.
We love the location of our Cornwall London apartment rental! It is on an elegant and quiet street with the original mews on the corner. The mews is where the wealthy Victorians housed their stables, but all of the stables been converted to expenses homes and shops over the last few decades. There is an excellent patisserie in the mews where you can enjoy warm, buttery pastries from France and cappuccino’s every morning. I was walking our daughter to school one morning and came across the funniest scene and captured it on camera: the Queen’s Household Regiment stopping for a morning Cappuccino break in our mews! Their beautiful barracks are in Hyde Park; some mornings you can hear their horses clopping down our street when they exercise their horses.
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