Piccaddilly Circus & Regent St.......
Fascinating Hamleys Toy Store and life-size "Lego" Hagrid in the Harry Potter section!....
Carnaby St and a great sign found outside a bookstore......
On the agenda for the next day was another day in London but with a further deterioration in the weather - really raining and 11 deg a cosy morning at "home" was more appealing and later, between showers, a quick stroll to a local cafe for lunch and a couple of hours spent "lost" in a local bookstore.
I now only had 2 days left of my holiday and luckily Megan had another couple of days off so with an appearance of blue sky again we decided a trip to Greenwich was the plan for the day...... a train trip to London and a 20 min boat trip up the Thames - spotting some familiar landmarks on the way - and we had reached our destination.....
....the rose garden had 113 varieties of roses!
My last day had arrived and Ashdown Forest was on my "bucket list"! Known as "An area of Outstanding Natural Beauty", a part of it is also the "real" place where Christopher Robin, Winnie the Pooh and friends "grew up". AA Milne lived in the nearby village of Hartfield from where he wrote his Winnie the Pooh stories. We did the "long walk" taking us to some of the sites of Pooh's adventures.
.....Heading down to the "100 acre wood" and route Pooh used to find "North Pole".....
......and beautiful scenery along the way.......
....it was a "grand adventure!".......
Time for a refreshment stop before heading back "home" to pack......
A last farewell to Tunbridge Wells - "home" for 3 (and a bit) weeks of September and as the sun set over South East England we headed for the airport for last goodbyes!
So, readers, that concludes my stories of a wonderful English holiday..... now to plan for the next one!
Asta
It was certainly a lovely time. I enjoyed reading it very much. Happy Christmas Asta.
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