We had a room right on the Thames just south of Westminster Abbey. On our second day we walked through St. James Park, right past Buckingham Palace, then on through Green Park to the Mayfair area where Holland & Holland and Purdey and Sons are just a few blocks apart.
The London parks and gardens were a surprise treat for me. You would be walking along a narrow sidewalk with crazy traffic, pedestrians, noise and exhaust then every few blocks there would be a huge park or a small garden you could cut through and it would be dead quiet, sweet smelling grass and trees, like being in some idyllic English countryside.
