A heavenly return to a GREEN world. England looks and feels so cool and green after Spain. Tall green trees bending over roads to form tunnels of leaves, with cool fresh breezes and blue sky with fluffy white clouds! I just LOVE the humidity in the air.
Although I spent my first day back, regrouping and just relaxing in my friend's GREEN garden, I later got back into the sightseeing mode.
In just a few days I've managed to see: Oxford (walked around town with an Italian family I met, and we saw the locations that inspired the Harry Potter series at Christ Church Cathedral and College); Hampton Court; Brighton, The Lanes, the Pavilion and the Pier; Windsor Castle (the Queen was there when we arrived but left before we were able to say hello); and have even done a walk to the next town of Woking along side a lovely green canal - only thing was ... THAT day it was a very hot and humid and the "short walk" ended up being around 8.5 miles return! WHAT was I thinking????
I barely made it back to the house!
As it turned out, a mutual friend of ours from NZ came for a day's stay while I was here and we had a great time touring Windsor Castle together. I also got in a phone call to an old boss of mine that is now living in the UK.
Am about to pack for return to USA and leave all this lovely green, cool air behind. Not sure what I'll do this last day as I have seen so much already! I was hoping to see the young red fox that shows up in the garden in the mornings, but think I may have scared him away when we met the other day. I can also watch the robins, blackbirds, pigeons and English magpies as they play around in the nearby trees.
In just a few days I've managed to see: Oxford (walked around town with an Italian family I met, and we saw the locations that inspired the Harry Potter series at Christ Church Cathedral and College); Hampton Court; Brighton, The Lanes, the Pavilion and the Pier; Windsor Castle (the Queen was there when we arrived but left before we were able to say hello); and have even done a walk to the next town of Woking along side a lovely green canal - only thing was ... THAT day it was a very hot and humid and the "short walk" ended up being around 8.5 miles return! WHAT was I thinking????
I barely made it back to the house!
As it turned out, a mutual friend of ours from NZ came for a day's stay while I was here and we had a great time touring Windsor Castle together. I also got in a phone call to an old boss of mine that is now living in the UK.
Am about to pack for return to USA and leave all this lovely green, cool air behind. Not sure what I'll do this last day as I have seen so much already! I was hoping to see the young red fox that shows up in the garden in the mornings, but think I may have scared him away when we met the other day. I can also watch the robins, blackbirds, pigeons and English magpies as they play around in the nearby trees.
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