Discovered my limit for
walking today. Definitely less than seven hours!
Kew Botanical Gardens
are about 10 minutes walk away so I visited them this morning. They
are massive! More than double the size of Auckland Botanic gardens.
Walked up all the steps to the tree top walkway.
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| Treetop Walkway Kew Gardens |
Went through Kew
Palace where King George III and Queen Charlotte stayed for a period.
Saw a cute little grey squirrel playing around. Evidently they are
not so cute as they dig up the plants and have wiped out the red
squirrel.
After two and a half of
hours of admiration I headed back to Kew Village for lunch and then
on the tube. I am getting the hang of all these trains. I decided to
go visit the Westfield Mall near Shepherds Bush. District Line to
Hammersmith. Then cross the road to the other station and get the
Hammersmith & City Line to Wood Lane which is a new station
built because of the mall.
This too is massive! It
took me over four hours to wander around all the shops. Actually near
the end the wandering was more of a shuffle. I was determined to see
it all as I probably will not get back there again. The
basement floor was a Waitrose store and the top floor I think was
movie theatres – didn't get to them. Two floors were more than
enough. Over 350 stores. Every brand name with its own store.
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| Westfield London |
Catching the train back
to Kew was a new experience. I did consider waiting for the next
train but figured that would probably be just as bad. Managed to
squeeze in. The age of chivalry is dead! No gentleman giving up his
seat for a lady and no young person giving up their seat for their
elders. Just when I thought the grey hair might make a difference!.
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