When Brian Jones died, the Rolling Stones held a memorial concert for him in Hyde Park.
I'm not a fervent Stone's fan. However, I have been a fan, since I found the magazine, "Music Life", in a second-hand bookstore, when I was a high school student. In the picture, Mick Jagger was laughing while hugging a Union Jack under a sunny sky. "Wow, He's cool!! Looks like a bad boy!!"
Since then, I began to listen to their songs.
Therefore, this park had been one of the places which I wanted to visit, because it was a little related to the Rolling Stones.

Hyde Park is next to Kensington Gardens.
I think that England is terrific, because there are two vast parks next to each other in the big city of London. Really, they are so large that you get tired after walking from an end to the other.
However, I actually had some unhappy memories related to this park. One Sunday, when I visited Speaker's Corner, a middle-aged man approached me and began to speak with me ; he continued to talk and walk with me as I was passing through the park. On another occasion, I dropped a T-shairt which I had just bought without knowing it. On another day, my friend and I took the wrong road and entered this park and took fifteen minutes to get out of it when we went to the Cotswolds.
Does it mean that Hyde Park and I aren't compatible? However, I don't care at all. I like walking in this park. It's very comfortable.
Hyde Park is one of the places which I want to visit whenever I go to England.

left : the entrance of Hyde Park ; right : people who were gathering around Speaker's Corner

When I went to this park for the first time, I was surprised to see people were riding horses. "Wow!! It is wonderful that people are riding horses in the city of London." There are some tracks for riding horses in Hyde Park like the right photo.

This is a strange-shaped tree in Hyde Park. It's too big. Can you see the child who is on the top of the tree(photo by Taki)? It's utterly amazing--how did he or she get there--incredible!! Isn't it?

I found a squirrel here too. He looks aggressive, doesn't he?

(2002.8.9)

Scenery from the Park-- Kensington Gardens	Scenery from the Park-- Regent's Park	Scenery from the Park-- Battersea Park
Scenery from the Park-- Holland Park	Scenery from the Parks-- Green Park	Scenery from the Parks-- St. James Park

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Trip to England

I really love London!!