Today I was hesitate between two London walks : Little Venice or Chelsea Riverside Village. What make me choose was the time schedule. Little Venice was in the morning and Chelsea in the afternoon. I choose Chelsea so I could have plenty of time to go at Shepherd Market in the morning.
So I was on my way around 10am and walk around Shepherd Market for awhile. It is a beautiful area. I sat on a terrace and had a cappucino watching people passing. I walk the little streets of Mayfair and found myself on the big Oxford Street.
I was near Hyde Park so I choose a path there and walk to Hyde Park Corner where I jump on a bus that took me to Sloane Sq. It was time for lunch so I done what almost every Londoner do : I grab a lunch at Prêt and ate it in the square. I was just in time for the tour. It was a very interesting tour where I learn about Oscar Wilde being arrested and put in prison for sodomia. Maybe I am the only one, but I didn’t knew about that. I saw where Keith Richard and Mick Jagger lived (not together) in the early sixties. Keith Richard was just near the Physian garden that may explain why he is still alive after all the abuse of drugs … (He most had choose the good ones). Our guide told us that she think any of the Rolling Stones would never have a blue plaque in front of their house because you have to die first and they will live forever!! You can see many blue plaques on the walls of the houses in London. Each plaque is in memory of a famous person who had live there. The blue plaque come if someone ask for it and the honoured person should been died since twenty years.

It was a beautiful day today so I went to the park (St-James, my favorite) before supper to read for about an hour. I am reading : Wonderful Today by Pattie Boyd. For those who may don’t know her, she was the first wife of George Harrison and the wife of Eric Clapton aswell.
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