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Tuesday, 27 June 2023

Evening Walk - Royal Parks and the 2023 Serpentine Pavilion

Length: 6.0 km
Net Walking Time: 1 ½ hrs 
 
Meet: Queensway Station (corner of Queensway and Bayswater Road) at 18.45 hours.
Queensway is on the Central Line in Zone 1, Bayswater (Circle and District lines) is a 3-minute walk away. 
Finish: Whitehall/Trafalgar Square, near Charing Cross/Embankment/Westminster/Waterloo stations. All are in Zone 1. 
Drop-Outs: Hyde Park Corner or Green Park tube stations, or buses.
 
 
Map-led, through Central London's extensive parks, past the 2023 Serpentine Gallery’s Summer Pavilion in Kensington Gardens.
 
Eat/Drink: The Serpentine Pavilion in Kensington Gardens, plus numerous options around Whitehall and Trafalgar Square.
 
For walk directions, map, photos and gpx/kml files click here. T=short.19

4 comments:

Paul A said...

From the website: "Pavilion will be closed to the public all day on 27 June and until 1 pm on 28 June."

Thomas G said...

Indeed. Thank you. I overlooked that note when posting.
No drinks then there and only views of it from the outside...

Thomas G said...

8 walkers met at Queensway for a walk in w=warm-but-grey weather.
Kensington Gardens was busy and the event at the Serpentine that shut off the pavilion to the general public turned out to be not a corporate shindig but an all-out celeb haunt with see-through-proof fencing erected just for the day, paparazzi lining the exit, and plenty of minders shielding the VIPs from the hoi polloi. Read all about it in tomorrow's Evening Standard...

On we walked to then pick up walker n=9 at The Lodge by the exit from Hyde Park. 2 then peeled off to look for nourishment, and 7 went their way to Whitehall, where we ended up in The Clarence as on previous occasions, there bumping into the 2 that had peeled off earlier!

Thomas G said...

This was the party that was:
https://news.artnet.com/art-world/serpentine-galleries-annual-summer-party-london-2023-2330212