Of London's many green expanses, Hyde Park and adjacent Kensington Gardens represent the largest and perhaps most romantic, inviting couples to hire a rowboat or small sailing dinghy to navigate the 41-acre man-made lake called the Serpentine. Known

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Of London's many green expanses, Hyde Park and adjacent Kensington Gardens represent the largest and perhaps most romantic, inviting couples to hire a rowboat or small sailing dinghy to navigate the 41-acre man-made lake called the Serpentine. Known as the "lungs of London," the park was once filled with deer, boar, and bulls who roamed for the hunting pleasure of Henry VIII. Today, joggers, skaters, and sunbathers pepper the lawns, and cooing lovers snuggle amid the hedges near the Orangery next to Kensington Palace, Princess Di's former digs.

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