please empty your brain below

One piece of pedantry only, thanks.
Santanders Bikes should either be with an apostrophe (Santander's) or be, annoyingly, called Boris Bikes.
I have not seen a pool at the Albert memorial.
"Criteria" is plural; "criterion" please!
Not a pedantic comment but when exactly is dusk?

There is a park near me that used to have a sign up that said "This park will close at dusk" and I have always wondered when exactly is dusk. I know it is when the sun starts to go down and the sky starts getting darker but is there some actual measurement for when it is officially dusk?
Unexceptional, not unexceptionable.
"Disinterested" to mean "uninterested" is, like, literally the biggest crime against the English language ever. It makes my eyes bleed and my ears scream.
So many to choose from - you're doing this on purpose. I'll go for my pet hate - using disinterested (impartial) when the context suggests you mean "not interested"
I guess it's possible that the crowds were noisome, but they were probably just noisy.
Join the crowds splashing around the Princess Diana memorial.
Barry - astronomers define dusk as the moment when the centre of the sun's disc is 18 degrees below the horizon

As someone has beaten me to the draw on disinterested, I'll have another bite. Although Kensington Gardens closes at dusk, the time prescribed for locking the gates in Hyde Park is actually midnight.
"I always enjoy walking" or "I always like to walk".
Lancaster Gate
Timbo - thanks for the information, I never knew that, though now I've got a picture in my head of the park keeper getting out his sextant to measure the angle of the sun so he can lock up and sod off home.
... they may be reluctant to eat any bread you've brought with you.
It's the Albert Memorial, and regardless of capitalisation it doesn't have a pool around it.
@Barry - you can't use a sextant when the sun is below the horizon! Astronomical tables would be more useful.

Although I suspect they mean the end of civil twilight, which is when the sun is six degrees below the horizon - otherwise in midsummer the park would never close at all.
The Rose Garden in Hide Park is a modern addition and certainly not medieval.
lots of drinking fountains if you know WHERE to look

and how do you hire a cruise ticket?
Noon update:
Any number of comments accepted, but only one piece of pedantry per comment, thanks.

I like the idea of a sheep trough, but I'm not sure their legs would be long enough to reach it!?
accent has migrated from café to menu
Two that haven't been corrected, although already flagged up
Princess Diana should be Diana Princess of wales (see part 1)

Closing time is prescribed (laid down as a rule), not proscribed (forbidden)
(see 08:44)
You may be able to enter by turnstile at Lancaster Gate, but if you're stuck inside the park surely an exit is what you need. (Nice and convenient for the Night Tube by the way!)
Just be sure to be out of the park by midnight.
... but that's not recommended.
You might be able to enter from near the bandstand, except that it's not at the edge of Hyde Park nor is it at Speakers' Corner.
Spare "c" in recommended.
"literally hundreds of ducks"

This may be literally correct and not hyperbole, but it's difficult to count them as they keep moving.
@ Gerry

Whoops ! DG didn't say the bandstand was at Speakers' Corner...
OK, you (and the absence of any other comment about the trough) have forced me to it. It's for cattle, not sheep.
One the would be enough for the boathouse.
You got me!

According to Hyde Park's own website both pedalos and a (solar powered) cruise are available on the Serpentine, as well as the traditional rowing boats which you don't mention.
... the water's edge
Someone fell in the "the yolk of an egg is white" trap.

While replacing the plural - criteria - by the singular - criterion - the problem was missed that it's the wrong word anyway. A criterion is something to be used when making a judgement. The word should only be used when the context provides a judgement. This is not the case here. What was probably intended is "For most visitors an important question (or issue) is ...".

Then again, the sentence might anyway read better if turned round, to:

"An important question for most visitors is where to eat, but ..."
Phew, you'd got me starting to wonder if it actually was a sheep trough!
Intriguingly there is an area of Hyde Park called 'Sheep Trough', just to the east of the Nursery. But I don't think there's a sheep trough there.
If you start at Hyde Park Corner, you don't really need to pass very close to the bandstand to reach the Rose Garden. I went to my friends' picnic near the bandstand a few weeks ago, and walked through the Rose Garden to get there (from HPC station).
Sorry, no pedantry, bit I wish I'd known about the turnstile the day I got locked in and climbed out over the (scarily high) fence.
(and feeding bread to ducks is now frowned upon - it's not good for them and the inevitable excess of it at popular feeding spots doesn't get eaten and goes mouldy in the water)
Dang! http://www.alltrails.com/events/2016/02/hyde-park-and-other-evening-walks
The existence of water fountains is independent of whether or not you know where to look.

"Thankfully there are lots of drinking fountains, although they may be hard to locate."
It's horses, not bikes, on Rotten Row.

dg writes: Also an approved cycleway.
For reasons unknown to me, Hyde Park's website uses the term 'pedal boat' rather than 'pedalo'. Regent's Park is happy to call them 'pedalos'. I would err on the side of caution in case there is a crucial difference that could cause embarrassment.
You can't eat a beverage.
That's time up, thanks!










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