I've been adventuring again with the new camera...I do so love it. Last weekend the Boy came to visit, and we decided to save some cash and stay close to home.
On Saturday, our adventures took us first to Crystal Palace Park, where we
marvelled at the dinosaurs, lamented the fact that the
Palace itself burnt down at the
Museum, and got excited about the
proposed redevelopment (from 2015).
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Towards the city |
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Juxtaposed with you |
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Crystal Palce Park |
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RAWRRRR! |
After a great big naughty lunch at
The Capitol, the Wetherspoons in Forest Hill (I said we were being cheap, didn't I, and who can turn down an enormous hot dog, with onion rings, chips and a pint for just £5.89?), we headed up to the
Horniman Museum and Gardens, where we took a look around the free exhibitions and a quick stroll around the gardens, taking in the delights of the Horniman Farmer's Market, on every weekend.
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Crystal Palace Station |
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Horniman Museum Gardens |
We stopped off at
The Dolphin in Sydenham for another relaxed pint and then headed home laden with shopping bags of food from Lidl, where we watched the finale of Breaking Bad at last, and devoured umpteen
Favorina biscuits.
On Sunday we went for a local stroll, which took us first to
Wells Park, which is right on my doorstep and utterly beautiful, then around the outskirts of Crystal Palace Park again to Penge where we ogled the
Almshouses, ate in another Wetherspoons and trawled the charity shops.
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Wells Park |
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Wells Park |
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Wells Park |
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Tree Bark |
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Wetherspoons chilli con carne....mmmmm |
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Penge Almshouses |
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St Bartholomews |
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Jews Walk |
I love living in South East London, there's so much to see, plenty of leafy places to walk, and so many beautiful and incredibly old buildings. A satisfyingly cheap and chilled weekend, made even better by a lie-in on Monday morning due to train delays from the storm, and the fact that as Boy's trains were cancelled altogether, I got to keep him for an extra night.