Get Me Some Brooks Walking Shoes

Brooks Addiction Walker: pimp.

 There are few good reasons to own a pair of Brooks shoes. Foremost, you qualify as a senior citizen in the territory you reside; or you intend on walking over 7 hours in a single day.  Today we wished Santa had brought us both a pair of Brooks for Christmas.

Starting the morning off at HUNter 486 for a quick breakfast we loaded up and set sail on an epic voyage.  After re-charging the night before the squad was ready to bring their A-game. Zig-zagging South down the backstreets of Mayfair admiring the 15-20 million GBP townhouses an their equally priced vehicles we reached Green park.  Part of the Royal Parks, Green park is a tree covered park with pedestrian only pathways.

I found this looker in Green Park.

Without any direction we were fortunate that Green park funneled us directly to Buckingham Palace and timely enough to catch a portion of the charging of the guard.  Masses of tourist line the streets and gates of the palace -- so our view was obstructed but we did catch the ponies rolling in. Not overly caught up in the pageantry we continued on to St. James park.  As the oldest of the Royal parks it's also far superior to any we've seen.  Beautifully landscaped and filled with birds it's definitely worth a visit even if you skip "Bucky". The resident pelicans are quite the scene as well.

Owen and I --unimpressed with the changing of the guards -- standing in front of the gates leading in to Green park

Bird with feathered feet -- what?

Le pelican.

Since we had no plan or direction, we continued walking what ended up being South then West landing us on Kings Rd to Sloane Square and all the shops of Chelsea. Realizing we had traveled significant more  South than we hoped we started to work our way back up to Kensington then Knightsbridge ultimately stopping for a quick pizza lunch. There is a significant Arab presence in the area and in turn many, many shisha bars.  Despite being in England we've noticing English is spoken very little while most are speaking some Arab language.

Afterward we headed to Harrods, London's famed luxury store.  Harrods is a happening place with a great food hall well worth the visit alone.  Owen even got into the action in the pet section of Harrods.  I think we have his first birthday gift picked out.

Owen loves fish or anything brightly coloured that moves.

 Making our way back towards Hyde Park we wandered past the Royal Albert Hall and zig zagged our way back to the hotel.  All told over 7 hours of walking.  A solid showing that makes up for a slow start after day one. Sore feet to follow -- damn I wish I had those Brooks. 

Later in the evening I met up with a colleague who happened to be in London on business.  We headed over to the Punch Bowl formerly owned by Guy Ritchie and Madonna -- and recently only by the former.  Guy wasn't around and neither were any of his celeb friends but it's always good fun catching up with friends when out of town.