Pedalos, Picnics and Palaces...

This is a post about an amazing day I had a couple of weeks ago and I am blogging about it because it is a good date day idea for a sunny day.

Boy and I got to Hyde Park on the tube and headed straight for the pedalos on the Serpentine. You can hire them for either half an hour (£10 per adult) or an hour (£12 per adult). We hired them for the hour and made it the whole way around the lake with a few sunbathing and photo stops. On a beautiful day like this you might want to just float around as peddling becomes thirsty work in the heat!

From the pedalos we walked through the park and out the other side to Kensington High Street. There is the Serpentine Gallery on the way which is free so you can have a wander around if you fancy some art. Our sights were set on getting some food for our picnic so we skipped getting some culture.

We went to Whole Foods to buy food for our picnic and literally spent half an hour deciding what to get was there was sooo many options. We ended up with some freshly cooked beef, some marinated prawns, a salad box full of all sorts of things from the salad bar and a focaccia. We had brought a bottle of champagne and a punnet of strawberries with us too in our gorgeous white picnic basket.

Just across the road from Whole Foods is Kensington Palace and Gardens and this is where we decided to have our extravagant picnic. As it was a lovely day, the gardens were full of people but we managed to find a space for our picnic rug and dug in.

It was the best picnic I have ever eaten and the champagne definitely topped it off. We spent the rest of the afternoon lying in the sunshine feeling more than slightly tipsy, almost napping before we even looked around the gardens.

Eventually we hauled ourselves up and went to have a look at the Palace and the Gardens. Kensington Palace is the current residence of the Duke and Duchess of Cambridge and although we didn't go in, we admired it from the outside. The gardens were beautifully planted with all kinds of flowers. There is also a massive lake in the gardens that we may or may not have lay down next to again.

So pedalos, picnic and then palace, write it down in your diary and take your favourite person!