So, some more from Hyde Park - London.
Mostly I wanted to visit
Speaker's Corner, which I did pass by both on foot and on the Boris Bike. There were no speakers on soapboxes that I saw, but there is a food kiosk:
Anyhow, I'm getting a bit ahead of myself. After walking through Hyde Park and seeing the numbers of folks about on Boris Bikes, I got up early the following morning and headed over. There's
an app for that which proved quite easy to use to locate docking stations, this one for a return:
Around the park there were park roads with bikelanes:
park roads without bikelanes:
Segregated bicycle/walkways (though pedestrians with smart phones can often be quite dumb about that):
A very wide bicycle lane with lamp posts separating cyclists from pedestrians (I've briefly left the bike lane since the cyclists coming towards me didn't single up):
And a collection of folks on roller skis, most going round one way on the pedestrian paths:
And a service road (only for very small park vehicles and bicycles), a broad walking path on the right, and a *HORSE*(?) lane on the left:
Saw no horses, but very well behaved dogs off leash. Here I'm track standing for a brief moment on the Boris Bike while the owner tells her dogs to stay and motions me onward:
I did very briefly venture onto a quiet city street, but lost my nerve to be a true roadie on a Boris Bike sharing the very busy roads with all manner of buses and cabbies and cars:
All in all, a delightful way to spend two pounds and an couple of hours.
-mr. bill