Sunday Adventures 7.19 and more!

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Well.... It's been a while - so I'm gonna catch up a few blogs here. After Brighton on Sunday I headed out on my own to explore. So I went to Hyde Park, which is a HUGE park that I believe Central Park was modeled after. And Speaker's Corner is in the northeast corner of the park and happens every Sunday afternoon. Speakers corner is rumored as the beginning of the exercise of Free Speech. Basically on Sunday late morning, until about 5pm, various people come out to the corner of the park and bring with them chairs, stepladders, boxes, podiums - basically anything they can stand on and normally their voice alone (although some had megaphones) and they talk (or yell) about WHATEVER they choose. Most of the people were either very fringe political views or very fringe religious views. Anyone that comes out to a park with a chair to stand on and preach their views- probably has crazy views. (And they DID!) This lady was screaming about how Jesus loves me - but I've got some

videos and she gets a little nutty the longer you listen. She also made the mistake of attacking Islam, but not having a firm understanding of Islam first and got EATEN ALIVE by some Muslims near by.... (got that on video too! lol). Rule #1 - if you're going to attack the validity of a religious belief - you should probably have at least a basic understanding of that religious belief first.... lol
This guy represents one of the fringe political views - the Socialist Party of GB. He wasn't very interesting though. He only










There are LOTS of monuments and statues in Hyde Park as well - including this one which just got opened while I was there - it was the 7/7 monument commemorating 4 years since the largest terrorist attack in Britian. It was the single largest terrorist attack - bigger than any of the IRA bombings during the Irish / British conflicts in the 70s and 80s. On 7/7/05, Arabic suicide bombers blew themselves up in a timed sequence in 3 subway cars and 1 bus which was the British version of 9/11 I guess and was a really difficult time for the Brits.


Earlier in the day I had been in Notting Hill on Portobello Road visiting the Portobello Market. It is the largest street market in London (i'm told) however, it seemed to me that the Camden Town Street Market was bigger, but I might have missed part of Portobello I guess. The houses (and the doors) are all VERY colorful in Notting Hill. (If you remember the movie Notting Hill - Julia visited the market when staying with Hugh Grant in NH.)





Portobello Road - With the basic street sign from London.


Many, many more blogs and pictures to come!

I checked today and so far I have taken over 2000 pictures! A CRAZY amount of pics... but I've sorted and named most of them!