The View From the Top

Last Sunday we went for a walk in a park. A posh park. A park with fountains filled with flowers, with immaculately groomed paths and hedges and beds full of tulips. Tulips without any aphids at all. It was called Regent Park.


Here we are in Regent Park. From left: L&T (our flatmates), L and his friend, A.

Surrounding the park in a gigantic square loom the biggest, whitest, richest-looking houses. People live in these houses and they don't rent them out in quarters. They live in the whole thing! (Our home is a quarter of a house).



Further on past the park you get to an affluent area called Primrose Hill. It has a gorgeous little boutique type shopping area full of expensive gourmet pubs and furniture stores selling pretty things. I fell in love with this shop, called Graham and Greene. (Click on the name of the shop to see their website). Check out all the different funky lights hanging from the ceiling.



Below is the actual Primrose Hill. You can go up it and see the whole of London. On this particular day, most of the inhabitants of Primrose Hill were on the hill. It was stunning weather and they were all lying around on the grass having picnics and sunbathing in bikinis. So we got ourselves some icecreams and lay on the grass too. I couldn't quite bring myself to put on a bikini though.