One of the main complains about London is that it’s dirty, smelly and grey. London can be very dirty and very smelly BUT London is NOT GREY.
If you look at a map of London you see two very distinct colours – blue and green. Blue is obviously the Thames and green is the parks and open spaces. There are bits of green all over London (on one of the train lines out of Liverpool St you pass through Bethnal Green, Cambridge Heath, London Fields and Hackney Downs).
These sorts of green spaces with playgrounds, lidos, tennis courts, cafes and all kinds of exciting entertainment are found all over the city and I love them.
But…if you were to ask me to pick my favourite green space, it would have to St James Park https://www.royalparks.org.uk/parks/st-jamess-park and my favourite spot in St James Park is the Blue Bridge across the lake. Look one way and you see Buckingham Palace and the other you see The London Eye. It’s a tough choice which view is better.
Not only does St James Park have great views it is also teeming with wildlife (according to the royal parks website there are 15 different species of waterfowl, I don’t know what a water fowl is but I want to find out). The biggest wildlife draw are the 3 pelicans, they’re called Louis, Vaclav and Gargi and you can see them being fed at 2.30pm every day.