Hyde Park London - More Like Hidden Park (under snow)
Following on from my black & white Picture of the Week (below) I apologise for yet another colourless offering – but you can blame Britain’s weather. I arrived in London to a blizzard, when the temperature at Heathrow Airport was zero. When I left Sydney it was hovering around 40c. I didn’t want to get off the plane!
I’d moved to Australia 30 or so years ago and had come to enjoy the heat. British winters became a distant memory, particularly as on each return visit I’d made sure to arrive in summer. This time a very close journalist friend was leaving his esteemed position on the Daily Mail and it was only right that I should buy him a farewell beer. I only wish he’d decided to leave during the summer months!
In any case, I went for a wander through the city, braving the blizzard and found myself in Hyde Park. I’ve never seen it so empty – a few ducks and a couple of brave souls standing beside an abandoned snowman summed up the decision by the entire city, it seemed, to stay indoors.
I grabbed this picture with my iPhone before the wintry shakes took hold. Then I went back to my hotel where an item on the news featured surfers enjoying the sun in Sydney. Sigh…..
