Walk in Kensington Area with London Walks

Lunchbreak in Kensington High Street

Afternoon visit to the Brand Museum 

April 27th 2010

''Old Royal Kensington is London at its best - picturesque, stimulating, and full of character. Its parts are as delightful as London can provide: everything from warmly handsome old Kensington Palace (home to the late Diana, Princess of Wales) to Kensington Gardens (all meadows, shaded walks, bowers, and flower gardens, it might be the grounds of a stately home in some rural shire) to cobbled little soigne lanes and mews, girt with pretty cottages and charming old shops; and from millionaires" row and regal avenues to beautifully kept squares and a clutch of the world's greatest museums; let alone a garden in the sky (the largest and most breathtaking roof garden in Europe); the secluded town house of the greatest Londoner of the 20th-century, an American president's flat, the most astonishing small literary house in the world, acres of gentility, a secret trap-door into a hidden world, and more history and colourful characters than you can shake a stick at''

taken from London Walks

The Roof Garden Kensington                                                                      photo Pauline Hull

Roof Garden is owned by Eichard Branson who owns the Restaurant/Night Club 'Babylon' there.