The Kyoto Garden

Place: Kyoto Garden, Holland Park, London.
Date: May 4, 2008.
Camera: Panasonic DMC-TZ3.

My sister, brother-in-law and three-year-old niece are in town, so I am taking the week off work to spend some time with them and do some sight-seeing.

Yesterday we took a walk to Holland Park, a gorgeous oasis of green, just off Kensington High Street. I have strolled through this park countless times -- indeed when I first landed in London, back in the summer of 1998, I based myself at the Holland Park Youth Hostel for a few weeks while I looked for permanent accommodation. Despite this, I never really knew about the Kyoto Gardens until a few weeks ago when I read about it on someone else's blog! Talk about one of London's best kept secrets.

The Kyoto Garden is a medium-sized pond and waterfall garden which was opened in 1991 to celebrate the Japanese Festival. It's lovely and peaceful, although the signs warning people that it is a "garden for quiet reflection" seems to have been much ignored judging by the amount of people wandering through it willy nilly yesterday afternoon. Still, now I know it's there, I'll make a point of visiting when it's not likely to be particularly busy --  so that'll be 8am one weekday morning, then!

Comments

[Tom]

you know, i could really do with something like that near me. there is no such thing as a quiet garden in poland and finding somewhere without dogs is impossible.

the search continues. have fun this week.