London Fairy Tale

So I'm finally here again! It already seems I've been in London a long time, but it has just been a few days - 5 to be exact. So far I have had a wonderful time and been doing mostly a lot of re-seeing things I saw 4 years ago when I was here for 3 months. It does surprise me how familiar many areas feel, like I was just there yesterday, but I do still feel like a tourist who is just getting to know the city.
So on my first day here, I went back to my old 'hood' where I stayed years ago at the ever luxurious Hyde Park Hostel (I am now getting the experience of staying in an actual London apartment thanks to my friend Gina's sister, Michaela who was very generous to share her studio apartment with me).
After walking by the old hostel, I decided to go back and walk through Hyde Park which is as beautiful as I remembered, but I had forgotten just how big it is. So anyway, I was walking along and this squirrel spots me from about 30 feet away. I look at it and it starts coming up to me until finally it's at my feet staring up at me. I guessed it wanted food and obviously must be used to people feeding it, but alas, I had no food. It put its paws up on my umbrella which I was carrying and finally gave up when it decided I had no food for him. I thought this was a funny little people friendly squirrel until about 5 minutes later I had a bird following me. This yellow little sparrow-looking bird flew to the fence I was walking along and startled me. I kept walking and every 3 or 4 steps I would take it would fly further along the fence to stay beside me. Honestly I was now starting to fear the animals would attack and looked around to see if someone else found this behavior strange. Luckily taking a few steps away from the fence seemed to discourage the bird from following me, but I feel that if I would have started singing a deer and a few bunnies may have come out to dance with me.
Other than this encounter with animals, London just looks like a fairy tale with its old buildings and quaint shops, etc. I have only found one prince charming so far, but it's still early on my trip. Kidding. I will try to blog more happily ever after as my travels continue.