On Saturday morning, June 24, 2023 Peg and I walked ⅓ of a mile from our London hotel to the Southwark Underground Tube Train Station. We purchased all inclusive tickets to ride London’s busses and trains all that day and that evening to and from the London Stadium to watch Baseball.
We got into one of Jubilee Line’s seven carriages which runs about 30 trains an hour for a 20 minute ride to the Green Park Underground Station. There we transferred to the #9 Bus for a 10 minute, Bus to the Royal Albert Hall, stop, by the Kensington Gardens.
Above is Peg and me speeding off at 62 mph from the Southwark Station.
Jordan was on a ten-mile walkabout of London, eventually meeting up with us for “Afternoon Tea” at the Kensington Palace.
Once part of Hyde Park, Kensington Gardens offers a mix of old and new park pastimes and green space. Including contemporary art, historic Kensington Palace, with the Victorian splendor of the Albert Memorial, and the Diana Memorial Fountain and Playground.
Anne (1665 to 1717), Queen of Great Britain, lived in Kensington Palace from 1702 to 1714. She sponsored my most distant relatives (Uldrich Winegar & Anna Arnoldt with their three children) with a free ride to America in 1709.
As well as being a popular visitor destination, Kensington Palace is the official London residence of TRH The Prince and Princess of Wales and their children. Diana, Princess of Whales lived at Kensington Palace from the time of her wedding, in 1981, until her death in 1997. She admired the seasonal displays in the Sunken Garden, (where the Princess’ statue is located) often stopping to “talk” to the gardeners.
Beneath the statue is a plinth engraved with The Princess’ name and the date of the unveiling. In front of the statue is a paving stone engraved with an extract after the poem, ‘The Measure of A Man’ which was included in the programme for the 2007 memorial service for Diana, Princess of Wales.
On Saturday the Cubs won 9 to 1. Sunday the Cubs lost to St. Louis 7 to 5.
Follow Uncle Jack’s blogs and you’ll see why he’d rather fly over an ocean to see the Cubs loose a Baseball Game there, than to travel to St. Louis and see them loose!
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