Day 1

We arrived at our hotel - Holiday Villa Hotel, Leinster Gardens, near Hyde Park, got to our room and had a shower and then felt well enough to go out and have a look.  Every other time we've had to have a sleep, so I think the three flights was better for us.

We decided to walk up to Oxford St and see if we could get SIM cards for our phones.  We walked down our street and there is Kensington Gardens, which look beautiful - see photo below - we were people on a mission tho, so shall check them out tomorrow - Monday.

Kensington Gardens becomes Hyde Park which we did walk along the boundary.

My husband becomes a walker when we're on holidays!!!!  (Just realised, I mean the walking police...)   So although we have Oyster Cards for public transport we walked up and back....  I think it is about 3 km each way to Marks and Spencer's.

By the time we got back to the hotel, we were a little worse for wear so had dinner here. Peter's fish and chips looked good, and I had stir fried veggies and rice...  I needed some veggies.  The plane food was much better than expected on the first two flights.  But not so nice on the last one.  I had a sweet and sour fish dish from Australia which was really tasty...  Who would have believed!