In October 2022 I was in London to see the event "Madly Deeply: The Celebration of Alan Rickman" (+ a book launch of his diaries), some places connected to him in London and Juliet Stevenson's theatre play! :D
So of course that I want to have a description of this on my blog! :D
I went to see those events together with some other fans and these descriptions, that I'll post here, are already on a sort of public place (public can have access, access is not controlled as far as I know) and/but I thought that it would be the best to post it here in the form in which it's there and anonymize it as much as I can. Because now I'm confused about some things, if I interpret/interpreted some things that happened correctly, so I'm not active on that place and/but there were really nice things so I thought that my aforementioned solution would be the best. :)
3 October 2022
So this is about the day when I went to see Mr. Rickman’s memorial bench, Kensington palace from the outside, his old house (that was sold so I went to it but still now I feel more guilty about it), Ottolenghi and Buckingham Palace from the outside! 
I think that this could have been the day when I slept for 4 hours and then decided to continue sleeping for 1 hour more. Then I woke up by myself or so I thought. Soon after that I heard some noises from the other room again but they were different from those the previous morning, I suspected 🍆🍑. And yes! It was great that at least they had their mouths shut. Well, this happened so I write about it, it was a part of my experience. So now you know what it would be like to be on this trip too. After some time I started to get ready and I saw messages from ladies. I tried to persuade ladies several times to visit these places connected to Mr. Rickman (his bench, his old house and I mentioned the other probably not related but I didn’t mention Ottolenghi because I didn’t necessarily need to see that and I would maybe more like to see some other place related to him than it if ladies suggested some) and some other related to him too but almost all of them didn’t respond to it that they would like to go except from one that day who asked me about when I would go to Mr. Rickman’s bench. Despite me noticing it before 11 I told her about 15:00 because I had to get ready and buy groceries but that I might be able to do it sooner but I didn’t want her to wait there for long. After sending it I continued getting ready and checking for messages. During my trip I knew only about day plans of Fan 1 who wanted to go to places not related to Mr. Rickman but that we could probably meet for me giving her presents and here I don’t remember if I misunderstood „gor“ as „or“ and not „for“ but I googled Gielgud Theatre and saw that it would be convenient for me – that I would be able to get there before her play would start at 7 when I would walk from Buckingham Palace which I wanted to see as last so every since then I got in my head that I could do it like this I’m sorry lol.
I was thinking that I would have to go to the shop without eating before but I found half a roll in my suitcase so I even was able to fill my stomach which was amazing! I was even looking forward in a way to the fact that I planned to change into jacket, sneakers and a backpack, which should provide me more comfort. At some point I got presents for ladies and spare ones to my backpack.
Then I got up and went on a heroic expedition for baked products and butterand other things to a nearby Lidl! I looked up its sortiment in United Kingdom and I chose that shop because I liked it. By the way, we have Lidl in the Czech Republic too and we know it as a shop having quality food. A day of walking around London was waiting in front of me! I was able to go discover the city! The sun was shining! I was about to visit some places related to Mr. Rickman! It was an amazing feeling too.
I looked up its sortiment in United Kingdom and I chose that shop because I liked it. By the way, we have Lidl in the Czech Republic too and we know it as a shop having quality food. A day of walking around London was waiting in front of me! I was able to go discover the city! The sun was shining! I was about to visit some places related to Mr. Rickman! It was an amazing feeling too. I was surprised by how the area looked in reality too but then I didn’t look it up on Google Street View too, I just felt very intense astonishment so I want to include it. But I found it quite easily, I also saw the shop soon after getting there.
I was a bit afraid or not much just presuming that I would probably have to wander around the shop for baked products somewhere far inside but they were located close to the entrance on the left side which was a difference from some of our shops in our country or in my city where you sometime have to walk for a long time to a far corner, they probably do it on purpose to try to make you see other products. Dear „normal“ baguettes were still here which was amazing! I got a lot of the small ones, then one big one (it was already in a bag I think but it was too long so I thought of putting it to another from the other side but I decided not to do it. I checked other products, thought about trying croissants, especially some unfilled (I haven’t eaten them much yet) but decided not to but I decided to give a chance to some white bread. Then I went for some butter and I decided to get salted one because I like salt. Since I had that large baguette and a lot of baked products, I wasn’t sure if I would be able to fit it all into the bag that I took with myself for shopping so I got their which looked bigger to me. At one point the big baguette stuck out of its bag and touched something so since that point I planned to shorten it.
I happily went on a journey to the hotel with my catch. But as I was getting closer I was thinking about that I was shy about parading here with a Lidl bag so I decided to try to put it into my plastic elegant bag. So I did it a few steps away from the hotel while being turned to it. It took a lot to get it into it but I succeeded.
But as I was getting closer I was thinking about that I was shy about parading here with a Lidl bag so I decided to try to put it into my plastic elegant bag. So I did it a few steps away from the hotel while being turned to it. It took a lot to get it into it but I succeeded.I think that this was the time when I accidentally dropped my hotel cards on the ground in the hotel hall but some people who sat nearby warned me about it which was nice.
I was thinking that there could be only wooden sticks like I think that at the previous hotel in Prague for coffee/tea making but there they had teaspoons! Which was better for my comfort when putting the butter on baguettes – I didn’t have a knife, of course, because I think that I wasn’t able to take it from home on the plane and I didn’t want to try to get it in a shop for a few days so I planned to use this. And I did it like this! And it was so delicious!!! ✨✨✨🤤🤤🤤😍😍😍😆😆😆😄😄😄 So I was eating that at 13:04.
I still hadn’t received any other reply to my messages so I decided to start travelling to Mr. Rickman’s bench to get there in time/a few minutes earlier. I appeared at Lancaster Gate. I remember being confused and that I made some mistakes when trying to get to the bench and that at one point I decided not to go back again and accept a new way to it. At some point in the day I think that I checked about Ms. Stevenson’s play to make sure that I got it right that they had free time that day. I was so confused also because I was so done, excited and daydreaming based on what happened during days before.
After getting in front of the station I managed to enter the gardens through the nearest entrance – next to the Italian Gardens Cafe. Then I walked past Italian Gardens
and the Long Water until Serpentine Bridge I think. I passed Peter Pan Statue.
I think that it was at the second „beach“ where I spotted swans so I spent some time taking photos and videos of them.
I got confused and crosed the street West Carriage Drive in front of the bridge unnecessarily but I decided not to walk away and cross it when I would be close to where I should go. The street separates Kensington Garden and Hyde Park which I found out now. In my opinion, I knew only about the bridge.
Then I got confused again and walked onto a different path and I had to go back.
When I was close to/in front of the Flower Walk, it was another time when I checked my phone for messages from ladies but no new ones regarding to my locations but I replied to Fan 1 that we could meet before her play. It was after half past 14 hours, it was getting closer to 15:00 and I still had to walk for some time and I still had no reply to me being at the bench at 15:00 (but I said that I might be able to go there sooner) and I wrote at 14:36 that I could sooner.
Then I finally got onto the Flower Walk! That’s where the bench is located close to the Albert Memorial! So Albert and Alan’s, 2 Al’s Memorials at a 2x AL(C) (A Little Chaos) location – on ALC style named path + in gardens (A Little Chaos film is centered a lot around gardens). I wanted to go through the whole length of it so I started from the right side. I was getting close!!! I was excited!!!
That’s where the bench is located close to the Albert Memorial! So Albert and Alan’s, 2 Al’s Memorials at a 2x AL(C) (A Little Chaos) location – on ALC style named path + in gardens (A Little Chaos film is centered a lot around gardens). I wanted to go through the whole length of it so I started from the right side. I was getting close!!! I was excited!!! 
As I was getting to the Albert Memorial, I saw some I think that Uber Eats guy on a bycicle. He stopped in front of me! But he didn’t want to give me food, I didn’t order anything and he also didn’t want to sell me something or give for free, as I was to find out in a few seconds. He was waiting for other(s?) and then they continued their quick journey.
The Albert’s Memorial was undergoing a reconstruction, it was surrounded by a green transparent fence and people in white clothes were working behind it and from the path it was from a back side so I don’t want to post my photos here.
I knew that there is a lot of squirrels in London parks. And/but I saw that the day before we were told that Mr. Rickman played a grey squirrel so I remembered it and found it interestingwhen I (also) saw a squirrel (I don’t know if for the first time) on the fence there on the Flower Walk close to the bench staring at me, then jumping and running a bit in the direction of Mr. Rickman’s bench but behind the fence and it waited for me to film it!
Then I saw Alan Rickman memorial bench! But it wasn’t alone! Some ladies were sitting at it! I’m afraid that I wasn’t looking the friendliest. I sat opposite to them on another bench, clearly waiting for the bench and showing it and being only partially embarrassed for it and I started writing to ladies at 14:47. This is my live report:
I would like to apologise for my not friendly looks to them and I see that I’m encouraged in it by how quickly they left.
So since 14:48 the bench was mine!!! Oooh!!! I took photos of it,
Oooh!!! I took photos of it,
then I sat down and took videos and photos of me on it. Then I added those 2 last messages in the screenshot. When I was imagining this moment, I was thinking about that I would eat and drink something safe there but I didn’t eat anything I think. As I was sitting on the bench and trying to understand what was hapening (I see that it’s a bench from fans, but the family was also involved and still, I was very amazed). Then three pigeons arrived, interestingly enough from the direction in which I arrived to the direction in which I planned to go, so from „past“ to „future“. First came a white/gray/black one and started coming to me, then a middle grey/black/white one flew in and then white/black/grey one came or at least that’s the order in which they arrived in my photos and videos. At one point they created a funny formation. The first one went under the bench and the other 2 continued walking on the path in the direction in which I planned to go.
Then I continued in taking photos and a video of myself to have some memory and I succeeded especially in one (and especially after I reapllied make-up on a few pimples in editing). This one!
(photo - I decided to not put much photos of myself here)
When I was sitting there, a lady passed by and she was looking at the bench and again, I’m afraid that I didn’t look the friendliest. I was observing what she was doing – she looked at it but she didn’t sit on the opposite bench, she walked away, she looked back but she didn’t stop or I hadn’t looked after her for long enough so I decided to stay. And I’m sorry for my looks that I gave also her again.
Then I probably started operation to put there a promotional paper for ??? (sticker but I didn’t want to stick it there), so I probably put it out of my bag and turned around…
And what did I see??? There was an (also) grey squirrel on the ground behind the bench looking at me!!! You know, as I’ve written, we heard the day before about Mr. Rickman playing a grey squirrel!!! So I found it interesting!!! Also because it was standing behind the bench close to the middle – behind the quotation of Mr. Rickman „It would be wonderful to think that the future is unknown and sort of surprising.“!!! So it was crazily amazing!!! It waited for me to take photos of it!!! I‘m so done, excited and thankful that it happened!!!
It were Live Photos = I was taking photos and my phone also captured a short video around every one so I was able to turn them to videos and put them together so here you have photos and a video!!!
The squirrel then went to the right side from my point of view to the direction in which I planned to go, she was sniffing the ground and grubbing her nose in it. I have a video of it too, I can post it if you’d like me to.
So I looked at the bench and I found a convenient place for the paper with ??? advertisement – there was a space on the left side between the rear plank of the sitting part of the bench and the first plank of the backrest of the bench. So I wanted to put it here but then, a guy appeared and sat on the opposite bench! So I was embarrassed – I didn’t want to do anything to the bench, just to put ??? promotional paper between the planks but I still felt guilty lol. I tried to gain some time for him to leave by drinking water first but he still sat on the opposite bench. So I think that at that moment I placed the sticker visibly on my left side (from the view of me when I was standing up but then I’m not sure if was better for him to see it on this side) when I was putting the bottle to my bag so I tried to show him what I planned to put there. Then I grabbed it, folded it and put it on that place that I selected and I tried to make it obvious what I was doing there. After that I took photos and a video of it there, the last one at 14:58.
Then I decided to leave and I on purpose didn’t try to look what he was doing there, if he went to the bench, if he grabbed it, if he took it, I both wanted and didn’t want to know, I just wanted it to stay there and some amazing people to find it here. Maybe he reads it now lol or someone who found it! If yes then please admit it in a post here!
So I went a few steps away and I started to write to ladies about that squirrel! I think that I was smiling while doing that. And while I was allowing Messenger to have access to a photo of me on the bench to post it to them a squirrel ran around me! About which I was writing to them too! It ran behind the fence and then I made it come to me! And I filmed it and I sent it to ladies too! So it was quite adventurous, everything was happening quickly, it was amazing and exciting!
I think that I was smiling while doing that. And while I was allowing Messenger to have access to a photo of me on the bench to post it to them a squirrel ran around me! About which I was writing to them too! It ran behind the fence and then I made it come to me! And I filmed it and I sent it to ladies too! So it was quite adventurous, everything was happening quickly, it was amazing and exciting! Then I noticed that while I was writing to them, some of them told someone to wait at 15:04, that they are coming and that they are still in bus so at first I thought that it was a reply to me so I wrote to them OK, that I walked from the bench away from the memorial and that I was still on the Flower Walk at 15:06 but then I thought that maybe she wanted to reply to Fan 1 who was asking about where is everybody and if and where we should meet so I wrote to them at 15:07. I was close to the end ot the Flower Walk but I decided to sit down and wait. So I don’t know when she read it, I think that quickly and I just know that it was sooner than 15:16. At 15:18 I noticed another squirrel! It was at the other side of the bench on which I was sitting and it had something in its mouth. So I started taking photos and a video of it. It ran towards me, stopped, touched the ground with the thing and then started running around me to the exit of the Flower Walk. So I still didn’t have a response from ladies, I didn’t know if she replied to me or to Fan 1, I wasn’t sure if I should wait and I was like that if the squirrel would run away then I’ll go away too and I started following that. In front of the gate it turned and ran behind the fence so I was like that if it would cross the gate line that I would go and it seemed to me that it did, so I went away.
It was at the other side of the bench on which I was sitting and it had something in its mouth. So I started taking photos and a video of it. It ran towards me, stopped, touched the ground with the thing and then started running around me to the exit of the Flower Walk. So I still didn’t have a response from ladies, I didn’t know if she replied to me or to Fan 1, I wasn’t sure if I should wait and I was like that if the squirrel would run away then I’ll go away too and I started following that. In front of the gate it turned and ran behind the fence so I was like that if it would cross the gate line that I would go and it seemed to me that it did, so I went away.
I didn‘t put my phone away and I know that because I was also taking photos, so I was still looking if ladies would write something, I was already on the Broad Walk and going to the Kensington Palace but I was ready to go back, I was close.
The Broad Walk really was broad lol! I was walking on it done, completely excited and I must’ve been smiling around!
I was walking on it done, completely excited and I must’ve been smiling around! 
You can see Kensington Palace on the right side of these 2 photos already!
So I was close to the Kensington Palace when I got a reply at 15:25 that they arrived at park at 15:05 and that they at the moment leave. So I wrote "Oh!", "What now? I’m nearby.“ and that I was sorry, that I thought that she didn’t reply to me because she didn’t have time (to go to the bench). I wrote that from 15:25 to 15:27 and now I see that I could’ve also written to everyone. I was waiting for a reply and taking photos of the palace.
I didn’t receive any reply so I wrote at 15:32 „So I go to Westbourne Terrace!“ Maybe I could’ve waited longer, that’s what I see now, I just was standing there in front of the Kensington Palace and I was ready to go back to ladies, or I could’ve called, I don’t know why I didn’t do that but then they could’ve too, please reply to me, I sometimes can get confused and I’ll try to do the same.
By the way, originally I was thinking about walking around the Kensington Palace on the road that is behind it, Palace Avenue, but I didn’t look at it enough, only after some time I saw that my side was better because of the view and now I saw that it wouldn’t probably be possible to go there, it would probably only be an extra walking, which wouldn’t be that good for my hurting feet. So I’m glad that I somehow got to walk on the good side.
Then I must’ve gone in front of the Orangerie on the path in the gardens and I must’ve found myself in front of the Porchester Terrace on Bayswater Road. Then I think that I went to Leinister Terrace. I didn’t want to stare at the phone all the time to save some battery so I tried to orientate myself by counting streets that I should cross on one side of the street probably including the street in which I should go. I found this to be a good technique, interestingly enough, I think that I used it only on one trip before this but it worked in Prague. But I somehow was crossing those streets and had to go back! For some time I didn’t know why it happened (I think that it could’ve happened also on days before) but after some time I found out that it was because when I was walking I didn’t pay attention to some small entrances for cars and I somehow saw them in the map so I got confused.
I walked into Craven Hill Gardens, that continued in Craven Hill and Craven Road. And then there was a house and in front of it stood some guy and I just remembered it, it looked like that he was an owner of it and he just was standing there. And then at 15:56 I took a photo of Paddington Station building!
And I went to the road and found out that it’s Eastbourne Terrace! I have some memories of knowing from looking at the map when I went to Mr. Rickman’s house that Eastbourne Terrace is further away from Westbourne Terrace from the view from the direction in which I went and now I remember from looking at the map several times that Paddington station is also further away (and it’s in Eastbourne Terrace as you could expect based on my writing), but I don’t know if I noticed that at that moment. So I had an idea that I went too far and I looked into the map and it was true. So I had to return and at that moment (or maybe sooner) I realized that thing that I probably went too far away because I didn’t count small entrances for cars in real location. And I knew that I would have to probably pass by that guy in front of the house which actually happened, I wasn’t excited about that.
And then I was in the street that I should’ve been in again!
So I crossed it, then I saw that there was some way closer to those houses but that there was sign only for residents and, interestingly enough, I respected it (maybe also there were some other people also in front of the houses but I think that I would’ve respected it at that moment even if noone else was there). And then there was the street sign! So of course that I started taking photos of it at 15:59! So in the background I could see some house, not Mr. Rickman’s, it was some other but in the same row, and it seems like that there was a light flickering in the doors of that house but also on the right side outside so it probably was because of lights of some technical car but I don’t remember seeing any but I wasn’t looking for it. I don’t know if I had noticed that when I was standing there but I noticed that today, on Christmas Day, when I’m writing this.
So of course that I started taking photos of it at 15:59! So in the background I could see some house, not Mr. Rickman’s, it was some other but in the same row, and it seems like that there was a light flickering in the doors of that house but also on the right side outside so it probably was because of lights of some technical car but I don’t remember seeing any but I wasn’t looking for it. I don’t know if I had noticed that when I was standing there but I noticed that today, on Christmas Day, when I’m writing this. 
I passed by some houses, I looked into the map…
And then I was in front of Mr. Rickman’s house! So I looked up… But I didn’t see much because of bushes! That frustrated me but of course that I was glad that I was there and that I saw at least something. So I took a screenshot of me standing in front of the house (there are 2 hearts – 1 is my marker that I added to the house by its number and street and the 2nd is on the place that someone selected and named Former Home of Alan Rickman)
So I looked up… But I didn’t see much because of bushes! That frustrated me but of course that I was glad that I was there and that I saw at least something. So I took a screenshot of me standing in front of the house (there are 2 hearts – 1 is my marker that I added to the house by its number and street and the 2nd is on the place that someone selected and named Former Home of Alan Rickman)
and a photo of what I saw.
I don’t know if I didn’t see more – the upper part of the building – because I was too close to bushes or because I didn’t get the idea to look up, but then, it wouldn’t matter because his part was on the bottom right?
Then I went back to the street sign and started taking photos of myself with it at 16:03! So this moment is only 4 minutes from me taking photo of the street sign and the light wasn’t flickering already or it doesn’t look like that in those live photos/videos!
So this moment is only 4 minutes from me taking photo of the street sign and the light wasn’t flickering already or it doesn’t look like that in those live photos/videos! (photo)
I both could and couldn’t understand that it was that place, Mr. Rickman’s flat, where he spent a lot of time, that those were his familiar surroundings, that I was standing in front of it. The street was busy, I was a bit embarrassed to stand there and take these photos, to stand there longer but of course that I was glad that I was there trying to enjoy that. After taking photos I decided to leave.
So at 16:07 I was across the street Eastbourne Terrace from Paddington Station again on my journey to McDonald’sfor some food. And when I was waiting to cross the street, what did I see? Some double-decker buses. And what was on the second of them with the number 205? An advertisement for Mrs. Harris Goes to Parisfilm! A film produced by Ms. Horton with also Sarah Rickman!
A film produced by Ms. Horton with also Sarah Rickman!
I managed to find McDonald‘s, I went inside, there was a lot of self-order kiosks which was great, I managed to make an order, even to exclude ice from my Coca Cola, and, on top of that, the number of my order was my favourite one. I was looking forward to my food.
After a long time of waiting I finally got out and I wanted to find Circle or District Line station in Paddington Station to get closer to Ottolenghi – where Mr. Rickman was photographed. It was a place that I also wanted to see but not that much as others, I was up for going elsewhere, so I didn’t point it out to ladies when I wrote that I would want to visit other places related to Mr. Rickman. I wanted to go there directly also because I needed to sit somewhere with my food but outside. I knew about some benches in Paddington Station area but I remembered that I saw some guy there and I didn’t want to sit near him and I also wanted to move around the direction in which I wanted to go because of my hurting feet.
I remember reading that Mr. Rickman mentioned Paddington Station in one of his old interviews (that he lives close and that people could go for a tea to him – I see that jokingly but still he said it lol – and now I found that he mentioned Heathrow Express) and (yes) it was close so I was looking forward to going there.
But after I did that… I saw train platforms in front of me and „only“ Elizabeth and some other line’s sign on my right side. I walked in the hall a bit but I didn’t see a sign of the rest of lines which was infuriating, my food was getting cold, my Coca-Cola was heating up, my feet hurt and I was hungry.
So I decided to go out, then I confusedly walked around, I think that back again, then out again, then I finally gave up and started Google Map navigating instructions which I didn’t want to start because I found it confusing and I discovered that it wants to take me to London Road which was a success but next to the Paddington Station construction works were going on and it looked closed!
Then I think that I walked back again, then I was out again on the corner of the Paddington Station, then I found that Google wanted to take me somewhere on the right side next to the Place where I stood but it was leading me in a way that wasn’t clear and I saw that some of it has to be underground but it didn’t emphasize the entrance and I was confused by that.
Then I walked in that way and I saw somewhere else on the opposite side of the road from Paddington Station that there was another Paddington Station with underground in a different suspicious looking old not that fancy building, I was looking at it from across the road, it said Underground there too and there were stairs right at the open entrance leading underground, I don’t even remember if I looked up and saw that it said also Metropolitan Railway above Paddington Station, but it didn’t say if and which Underground lines were there and my feet hurt and I didn’t want to waste energy going there and looking around, I was hungry and my Coca-Cola was warming up, at that point I was thinking about that I probably should’ve forgotten about putting ice out and I should’ve had it have in, so I didn’t go there.
I googled another underground station again and I found out that the closest was Lancaster Gate in front of Kensington Gardens again and I would’ve had to walk around the weird guy in front of his house again which I didn’t want to do, I gave up and decided to walk which I originally wanted to do.
So I went around the normal Paddington station along Eastbourne Terrace to those concrete benches in Paddington Stationarea on one of which I saw a guy. But somehow when I went there, he went away and I was alone here or there was a lady on the second one which was okay and it was nice, I sat on the first one on the right side with my back to the street. It was between 19 and 16 °C, and/but it was still not especially hot and the bench was colder so I sat on my backpack.
And I finally unpacked my food! It really was McChicken, my favourite and only burger that I’ve eaten at McDonald’s and 1 of 2 so far which was nice. And/but the crust was yellower than I remember from the Czech Republic but I decided to give it a try. And it was slightly disgusting, I think that more again than ours but I had few in past three years so maybe I became less used to them, I detoxicated myself and/or their allegedly not excellent quality dropped. And/but I still thought that it was okay so I ate it almost all, but not a few last bites and I decided to eat chips only.
But when I looked into the bag I couldn’t find it! I had the receipt with me but I couldn’t do anything about it, right, when I walked away, and I somehow didn’t want to look at it at that time only when I’ll be writing about that day so then I thought that they cheated me out of them, after some time that I forgot to put them there (because I think that I couldn’t find McChicken menu and I had to order items separately and I wasn’t sure if I put them in my order), and a few days ago (I write this on 1 January 2023 ) I found out that I had it in but that they cost for some reason 0.00 so they robbed me of those fries but they didn’t rob me of money so it didn’t seem to be good for me at that point, I would’ve appreciated having those fries and a full happy stomach and not having corresponding sum of money for it but now it is pleasing.
) I found out that I had it in but that they cost for some reason 0.00 so they robbed me of those fries but they didn’t rob me of money so it didn’t seem to be good for me at that point, I would’ve appreciated having those fries and a full happy stomach and not having corresponding sum of money for it but now it is pleasing. 
So Coca-Cola is famous for having a good effect on digesting so I was looking forward to drinking that but at some point I found that I ordered a different one, not the classic but zero and it was quite disgusting! But it was a Coca-Cola so it should’ve been fine. It wasn’t a good thing to eat and drink slightly disgusting things, especially when the next day I should’ve left and travelled by plane home again. Nevertheless, I left thinking that I maybe can drink some more of a normal one later during the day and after counting some hours that I probably would know by some time in early morning, or in the morning if it would be okay.
And I started a long way to Ottolenghi, or so it even seemed on the map when I was planning it but I saw it more with my hurting feet, I felt also the one that I got stomped on. But it was supposed to be an easy journey in terms of orientation because I only had to get to a long street and then walked straight to the last (and now I see that only) roundabout before the end of the street Westbourne Grove and then I should turn right and there Ottolenghi should be in front of me from the view of me continuing walking along that previous street.
And it really was an easy journey in terms of orientation! During that early on I encountered an advertisement of McDonald’s McChicken that assured me that english McChicken really is yellower so the colour should’ve been okay but then the taste lol. By the way, I ate it in London years ago at least once but I don’t remember anything weird.
I was tired but I was excited and I think that I was smiling. After some time I saw a busor I passed a bus stop and I was thinking about that I would stop at the next one and wait and search if the bus goes in that direction and if I could catch it, I would probably do it. After some time I really saw one. But I’m not sure if I checked the time or close to it but I think so, the times on the timetable looked to be too far away and I didn’t want to wait there for long. So I continued walking and then I noticed I think that on the roof of the bus stop there is a sign that said that the stop is closed so it probably was great that I didn’t stand there (I didn’t check if other people were waiting there but I think that they wasn’t) and one should check everything at a bus stop and I continued walking.
After some time I saw a busor I passed a bus stop and I was thinking about that I would stop at the next one and wait and search if the bus goes in that direction and if I could catch it, I would probably do it. After some time I really saw one. But I’m not sure if I checked the time or close to it but I think so, the times on the timetable looked to be too far away and I didn’t want to wait there for long. So I continued walking and then I noticed I think that on the roof of the bus stop there is a sign that said that the stop is closed so it probably was great that I didn’t stand there (I didn’t check if other people were waiting there but I think that they wasn’t) and one should check everything at a bus stop and I continued walking.At some point when I was waiting at the traffic lights I saw on our side someone again, a guy, crossing the road when he shouldn’t so I did an expression about which I thought that it was like Mr. Rickman’s – I raised one eyebrow, I turned my head to him and looked at him very exagerratedly like „Really?“ , I had a lot of fun when I was doing that and when I looked up I saw a lady I think that looking at me and smiling.
, I had a lot of fun when I was doing that and when I looked up I saw a lady I think that looking at me and smiling. After some time I got to the street, turned to it and there it was - Ottolenghi!
I was thinking and I still am that when I would get to some place like this where Mr. Rickman was photographed, I would create a perfect copy of the shot but when I was there I think that I didn’t remember that. And also there were people! Probably not customers but 2 people who looked like employees who were going in and out and doing something which wasn’t good for my shy self there wanting to take a photo of the shop. Except of them the street was quiet.
So I stopped there across the road in front of it and I think that I reached for a bottle of water and I tried to wait until they weren’t looking. And after some time at 17:24 I managed that but now I see that at the moment when I started taking photos the second person, a lady probably, went to the window of the shop directly facing me, so okay. But I got my photos and soon after that I left.
But I got my photos and soon after that I left.
I started walking to Notting Hill Gate. And I think that some time around it I was thinking about that I would like to drink some Starbucks coffee frappuccino at that time or before going to the hotel but then I remembered that I had already some slightly disgusing food and that I probably shouldn't do that. And during that I passed the end of Portobello Road where I wanted to go because I somewhere read that I think some fans saw him shopping there on the market. I even looked the street up and chose some shops that I would like to see but I my feet hurt so I didn’t realize that, I just took a photo of what I saw of the end of the street.
And I was on my way to Kensington Palace! When I was in the train of the Tube I think that I finally found what I wanted to find for a long time! And that is a translation of my favourite activity – „gaučing“, relaxing on a bed, but the word mentions sofa so if it was translated literally, it would be „sofaing“ but I saw that it wasn’t that and I somehow didn’t find it but it would be good to say that I wasn’t looking much for it. And then around 17:50 I saw an advertisement that said „Loaf around like you mean it“ and „Champion loafers“. But now I see that one should probably use different words to express more precisely what the word means and that is to „lounge around“ or „lie around“ or probably something else.
And that is a translation of my favourite activity – „gaučing“, relaxing on a bed, but the word mentions sofa so if it was translated literally, it would be „sofaing“ but I saw that it wasn’t that and I somehow didn’t find it but it would be good to say that I wasn’t looking much for it. And then around 17:50 I saw an advertisement that said „Loaf around like you mean it“ and „Champion loafers“. But now I see that one should probably use different words to express more precisely what the word means and that is to „lounge around“ or „lie around“ or probably something else. Then after I got out at St. James' Park… I was on Broadway! LOL! I had to take a photo at 18:02. There is a street called Broadway like in New York.
LOL! I had to take a photo at 18:02. There is a street called Broadway like in New York. 
At some point in 18:00 I wrote to Fan 1 „So what about the theatre? “ – I’m sorry lol I wasn’t having communication skills at the moment and I used SMS – I just wanted to make sure that you to get it – and I don’t remember if it was because I forgot that you can get them but can’t reply but there were other available means of replying like calls and internet so it was okay.
“ – I’m sorry lol I wasn’t having communication skills at the moment and I used SMS – I just wanted to make sure that you to get it – and I don’t remember if it was because I forgot that you can get them but can’t reply but there were other available means of replying like calls and internet so it was okay. On the way to the Buckingham Palace there were picturesque locations.
And then at some moment the palace showed itself between the trees! So I could see that I was getting close!
So I could see that I was getting close! 
I remember that I looked up the streets surrounding Buckingham Palace which I wanted to walk on and I found out that some will be opened after the maraton during the day after – that day 3 October – after 18:00 but I think that I forgot about it, I was just walking to the Palace, checking phone if I got a reply and thinking about that I should be able to still get to the Gielgud Theatre in time. And when I was walking on the street in front of the palace I found a sign with the time until it was closed (but then it was about the road and maybe not about the pavements but the time was the same also for the Mall as I found now and I wanted to cross that) and it was 18:17 when I was there so I got there in a good time!
Then I started taking photos of it and of myself in front.
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So in this one we can see a cyclist also but I like it still the most!
I wanted to go there again after almost exactly 10 years after the first time because I was wondering if I would see some member of royal family arriving in the palace and I was trying to find the same crossroad that we used, I was also trying to come there the same way but I was somehow confused, my memory was blurred a bit already and it seemed to me that I can’t walk on some path in the park. So I got to some point and I decided to only wait until the green light.
So I was waiting, waiting, waiting… And then the light appeared so I crossed the road while taking photos of the palace and I don’t remember seeing any car with a royal.
After that I continued in the direction of both the Tube station and Gielgud Theatre. I was very exhausted and it was showing in a funny way, I was walking slow like a snail but I was still looking for Fan 1‘ reply and I was still ready to go there. But I didn’t receive one. So after I dragged myself up the stairs one step at a time and after a look on the phone I was very happy to see the station and to go inside and be finally on a way to the hotel.
I managed to get in which was nice, my comfy bed was waiting for me and my tasty baguettes with the salted butter as well as the longest free time at the hotel and I spent a great part of it on the internet. Even though that I had the most of free time I still got away from that very late. Some time during that I accidentally kept clogging and unclogging my left ear which didn't seem good normally, especially when I had to travel on the plane the next day and there are some concerns about clogged ears because of the pressure already. I decided that I should pack some of my things at that moment already so I did that. It took me longer time and I went to sleep later than I expected to go but I was glad that I had some of the things already done.
So that was it and the next day I went to see the Houses of the Parliament (with the Westminster Cathedral) from the outside and then to the airport, to the Czech Republic and home!
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