Well, kind of the last day of summer. A lot of people has raved about how beautiful Richmond Park is and since Saturday's weather was a gorgeous high of 26deg, we decided to go before the real autumn weather sets in.
As you see, this book One Day by David Nicolls is my current read. Probably also known as "that orange book" which everyone is reading right now, and I jumped on the bandwagon upon knowing it was made into a film starring Anne Hathaway and that got me all curious. "What is the hype surrounding this?" So now I am currently halfway thru', and enjoying every bit of it. I've watched the movie, enjoyed it, no comments on Emma's Yorkshire accent (somehow all the critics' first point is her fake unconvincing accent) and cried during the ending. Gosh it is good. *sniff* Sorry for being a spoiler if you haven't watched or read the book!Anyway back to Richmond Park. It is all the way in West London, a far cry from where I am, and the drive was painfully long. What was meant to be a 1h drive turned out to be twice as long because of the horrendous traffic and one way lanes AND road works. I don't think I will dare drive in London. Too scary.
The park is sprawling to say the least. You cannot possibly walk round the whole park in one afternoon. Not even if you jog I don't think. Most of it is grassland and parts of it woodlands. It used to be a deer hunting ground many years ago until they made hunting illegal, and today you can see deer roam freely in the park which makes it a bit more special than other parks in London. My manager told me if you get there around sunset, the deer all sit around resting looking all graceful and poised.
Spotted! "Oh hello there!"
Resting under the evening sunAlthough we didn't do much there; pretty much chose a nice grass patch and stayed put reading, napping, we drove within the park - yes you have to - trying to spot more deer and strolled around a bit before the gates closed at 7pm. T'was a very chilled out afternoon.
Love the colours of this photo
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