Hotel and Surrounds

We are in the Radisson Blu Edwardian Vanderbilt Hotel in Kensington, London.   This must be the best location in London if the house prices are anything to go by.  One three bedroom unit was £14,999,999.00.

Pinched from the web site, this is very similar to our room but we have a corner window onto Cromwell Road.

Here we are.

Stairs to our room.

Around the Area

We've had a few walks around the area to go for coffee and dinner and just to look around at the homes and hotels in the area.

As you might expect, most homes are in the form of apartments such as this.  Some have private gardens but most are just on the street.

A mews is a row or street of houses or flats that have been converted from stables or built to look like former stables.

London Taxi.   There are thousands of these things in the city buzzing backwards and forwards.   They are all diesel as far as I can tell.   Very efficient but very very expensive I've been warned. 

 

 Speaking of cars, these are a few of the ones that the local residents drive.   They also leave them on the street because there is no secure parking in these homes.






A mews with houses all resembling stables.   Some with wide doors.

Mews gates from Cromwell Road.

These flats are called mansions.   They may cost more than you'll ever earn in a lifetime but they are still flats to me.

These beautiful gardens are actually private gardens for residents and not available to the public.   Even the residents have rules: no dogs, no noise, no music, no sports and no more than three guests.

The blossoms are out in London; absolutely beautiful displays of colours.    Flowers are coming up too.

This little bit of park is on Cromwell Road not far from the Natural History Museum.  We didn't get there because of the huge crowds.