Once again we decided to hit Hampstead and again (maybe it has its own micro climate) but the weather was beautiful, the sun shining and wonderfully warm for Spring. Heading uphill along Heath Street where the road forks at the roundabout, to the right is Spaniards Road and to the left is North End Way, we took the latter and not far lies a track into the woods right near Inverforth Close, we followed it along and down to our…

It has to be said that Hampstead is a quite lovely (and expensive to live) place. The houses grand and often huge and gothic looking, the high street offers plenty of independent shops selling all sorts of 'artisan' fare and it seems to be a bit of a blue plaque haven with over 75 being located around the area including: George Orwell (author), Sir Edward Elgar (composer) and Marie Stopes (pioneer of family planning) to name just a few. Hampstead…

For this post the music element, which usually follows me when I travel around this time came to me way after the event. When I was wandering around the Capital on this little trip my head was full of nothing, literally I was just enjoying the moment, the sunshine, the peace in between the hustle of city life. Some refer to this kind of effect as 'mindfulness' i.e. being in the moment no cares or worries, just letting things wash…

So, a couple of weeks ago we popped along to Sadlers Wells theatre (not the one along by Kingsway as we originally thought), this branch of it is in Islington in North London, the journey was quite easy and we jumped a 214 bus just along by Finsbury Pavement for the journey up City Road to Angel station. We had plenty of time to kill before it started so we had a mooch around some shops and decided rather than…

There has been a bit of a weird weather dilemma here recently, as mentioned in my previous post the cold weather seemed to take a back seat a few weeks ago and then we were unseasonably blessed with a spell of really quite warm dry and sunny weather, which oddly enough came to a grinding halt after a lovely sunny Sunday. You are never sure what to wear! Anyway enough about that topic and renowned favourite British pastime and on…