London walk from London Victoria train station to Buckingham Palace via Grosvenor Gardens and Victoria Square.
Join me on this first-person walk from London's Victoria train station through Lower Grosvenor Gardens and Victoria Square to Buckingham Palace along Buckingham Palace Road. We get a good chance to people-watch as we walk through both Victoria Station and Victoria Place on the upper level where there are shops and eateries. Joining Buckingham Palace Road we head towards Buckingham Palace but take a small detour via Lower Grosvenor Gardens and Victoria Square. Rejoining Buckingham Palace Road we walk past the Royal Mews and then the Queen's Gallery; it is then just a few minutes to Buckingham Palace which is having a busy day and we get to see someone celebrating receiving an award at the Palace - well done to them:) Leaving the palace, we finally head to Green Park where the walk ends, although I give you a quick glimpse of Green Park Station, the Diana Fountain and the Ritz Hotel (footage shot on another day) which is where the walk would have taken us had I not run out of battery.
This was a day of technical difficulties with my DJI Osmo which seemed to keep my phone on a mild tilt all day despite my attempts to balance it. Further, you can see the gimbal on quite a lot of the shots - this is an improved version putting it through the zoom function on Sony Vegas during editing. This is also why the place names appear quite low down on the screen. Conditions were not helped by it being windy giving rise to something of a bad hair day too - sorry for those times when strands of my hair fly in front of the camera.
Route timestamps:
00:04 Victoria train station
01:20 View of the main entrance/exit
03:55 Victoria Place shopping area plus eating and drinking outlets
06:05 Buckingham Palace Road
09:40 Victoria train station main entrance view from outside the station
10:00 Ferdinand Foch Equestrian Statue
10:10 Lower Grosvenor Gardens
11:55 The Goring Hotel
13:05 Victoria Square, with a loud scream incoming at 13:25 - you have been warned, it had nothing to do with me!
14:18 The English Rose Cafe and Tea Shop
14:53 Bag O'Nails Pub
16:10 The Royal Mews
18:25 The Queen's Gallery
19:40 The State Rooms
20:30 Buckingham Palace
22:10 Victoria Memorial
22:42 Canada Gate
23:15 Constitution Hill
23:45 Green Park
24:30 Diana Fountain, Green Park tube station and The Ritz, Piccadilly
My equipment:
Gimbal - DJI Osmo 2 Mobile - I had a lot of trouble with it.
Recorded on Samsung S6 mobile phone - I do the immersive first-person walks with these.
For vlogging to camera, I use my Canon G7X Mark ii, but I dropped it when filming so on this occasion it is on my Huawei P10.
