really bad red wine

and visited Hyde Park today, which was not at all what I expected. It is huge, first of all, with a lot of trees, but not planted close together. There were so many little dogs running around off leash and lots of places for their "foul" to be put, (I thought that was a nice turn of phrase).  The Serpentine River runs through the park, it's really nice, a lot more ducks and there were some people rowing boats and riding horses too (but not on the river). I watched the skateboarders swiveling through orange cones for a while, and got some hot chocolate to sip on while reading my first Shakespeare assignment, Othello.

On my way back I walked past all these wonderful memorials, one to the Australian participation in world wars one and too with all these place names with water running over them, another just for world war one, and I think my favorite thing I've seen so far, the Wellington Arch. It has this great statue on top that reminded me of the winged victory of samothrace- nike. I then found out how close all the parks are, Hyde then Green then St. James, so I walked past Buckingham palace again.