Today started with a walk around the Serpentine. It was 4.25 miles round trip and I saw many different types of birds. Lunch at the house and then we put on out fancy clothes. We joined our Copenhagen friends Jesper and Tina at the Duck and Waffle Restaurant. We originally met them at the Copenhagen Jazz Festival last July. They later invited us over to their house for a typical Danish dinner and boy was it fantastic. We ate hot smoked salmon and drank home-made Elderberry Champagne. They happened to be in London this weekend at same time as we were so we met up on the 40th floor for dinner. While we were asking them about their day they mentioned being in Hyde Park at the Italian Gardens. I looked at the pictures I took earlier in the day at the same place and low and behold there they were! What a lovely coincidence! I did not see them at the time because they were pretty far away and they were not birds.
Passing a hotel with a globe
Horses in the park
Herring Gulls and carrion crows
Eurasian Moorhen
Canada Goose
Mute Swan
Black headed Gull
Great Crested Grebe
Young moorhen
Great Cormorant
Grey Heron
Common Pochard
Tina and Jesper are inside this building. We only knew to look when they said that they had been to the Italian Garden in Hyde Park
Lovely little blooms
The ubiquitous Bride and Groom
Carrion Crow
The Italian Garden
Fountain
Some wooden bug themed sculptures
Just a few
A bit scary too
Mr. Peekaboo the dog
Chestnuts?
Eurasian Robin
Tufted Duck
By the Dianna Fountain
Swan butt
Eurasian Starling
Greylag geese
Gadwell
Cormorant row
Great Tit
Rose Ringed Parakeet
Song Thrush
Eurasian Magpie
Back through the rose garden
The Princess Diana Walkway
Slay that Dragon!
Just hanging out in the bird bath
Back in Mayfair
With the fancy brickwork
This rally was stuck in traffic
There were 9 of these Aston Martins
The logos check out
Bye bye!
Aliens are here
Above ground and underground
Fancy bridge adornments
Justice
The clock indicates that we are early
Lobby Art
Up on the 40th floor
The Beehive building
London
Is really large
Time to eat
We are seated
Jesper and Tina are looking at London
I got a crispy pork ear, delivered in a discrete brown paper bag
Looking down to this red tree
A sushi restaurant downstairs
Having Duck and Waffles at Duck and Waffles
The Copenhagen Four
From a different angle
Curly corn
It is getting darker
We waddle out like ducks
To Liverpool Station
Descending
Where we say our goodbyes
Our Station
Walking back to the stay
Back in Mayfair
Jesper and Tina brought us some disposable ice cube bags that we marveled at in Denmark
