It just goes on and on

The thing about London which I've recently discovered in the last week or so is that the more effort you put into it, the more you get out of it.

For starters, London is a ridiculously large city. The transport as I know you are aware of, is very vast and extensive but even still, getting around the entire city takes a fairly long time - and that what makes London so interesting as a city. The more effort you put into getting around, taking the time to explore every inch of the city, the more you get from it - from nice places to eat, drink or club, to relaxing areas to sit around and waste time. The city is so diverse, it's very much like Sydney but on a much larger scale - and like Sydney, everywhere you go is like a new story, a new chapter to a book.

Just the other day we went and visited Hyde Park - something I wanted to do since I wanted to compare it to Sydney's Hyde Park. To be perfectly honest, the London Hyde Park makes Sydney's look like a dirt hole. It's not that Sydney's isn't nice - because we all know that it is quite a nice place, but the London version (well.. original version anyway) was just incredible. Firstly it was absolutely MASSIVE - I swear the park was about the size of Penrith, you could almost spend a day just walking through the park and not reach the other side. There's also a lake in the middle of the park which has paddle boats and dinghies for rent which I imagine would be a very nice ride on a nice day. The second and most important point about Hyde Park is that once you step into it, and walk for a bit, you would never imagine that you were in London. The park is lined with so many large trees and greens that you can't see the city at all. There's a few buildings that you can see the top of, but other than that it's hard to distinguish where you are.

But it takes effort to get into it. It would be hard to stroll into Hyde Park by accident - it's out of the way (to an extent) and there's really not much to do, other than to chill. It's the perfect place to waste a day reading, or sleeping on the grass, but it's not really accessible unless you walk for a while to begin with, or end up at Hyde Park Corner station. It's worth it though, it really is.

And that's what London is all about really - a big city with many little areas to explore, all hidden away in their little corners, waiting for people to come by and find them. I haven't really seen much of the city though, despite how long I've been here. What I've seen so far has been the regular areas people go, but it's the smaller, more unknown areas which I really want to find. Small markets, friendly pubs and quiet streets, I know they're out there just waiting.