Kensington Gardens

This guide to Kensington Gardens in London follows J.M. Barrie, who met the Llewelyn Davies boys here in 1897 thanks to his St Bernard Porthos, and began spinning the stories that grew into Peter Pan. You'll hear the tale he told them, that children were once birds, and how he had a bronze statue installed overnight in 1912 so it would seem to have appeared by magic. Walk toward the Long Water to find Peter still there, trumpet in hand.