London is a green city with a lot of parks in its center . Hyde Park is one of the largest parks in central London . It is open from 5am to 12pm Londoners like to take long walks over its Speakers Corner . It is the place in the park where on Sundays peple stand up on boxes or chairs and speak of anything they want There are other parks and gardens in the centre of London as well . Some of them are near Buckingham Palce . the London home and office of the British monarch . When the Queen or the Kong is in London they live in Buckingham . The gardens around the palace have a lake where flamingos live . London streets are different . Some of them are wide and long some are narrow and short . Some of them are very famous and popular with tourists for example Downing Street in central London . Here at number 10 the British Prime Minister lives and works.There is usually a policeman outside the front door of Number 10.
Oxford Street is a famous street too.It is an important shopping place.There are about three hundred shops in it.They say it is the busiest shopping street in Europe.Oxford Street is fairly long,about two and a half kilometeres.There are big and small shops on its both sides.
Whitehall is a wide busy street in central London.Government buidings and ofices are situated there.It is political centre of the British capital.When newspapes write Whitehall they often mean the British Government.
In all streets of London you can see red double-decker buses or just double-dackers.They are also a symbol of the city of London.From the double-deckers visitors too London can see the best of the city.