18/NOV Wandlebury Wonderland Walk

Wandlebury is a magic place and again, it's a very special for me and Marcus too. I'm not going into detail, but we both love this park. 

Somehow I missed it very much, I was thinking about walking along the Roman road. So, when Marcus came round to stay at mine on the weekend, I asked if we could go there. Of course, that meant popping into Cambridge TK-MAXX too. ☺And he knew it.  I know it's naughty to keep popping in and spend money, but can't help myself for good bargains. I don't really buy a lot for myself, but for making my holiday money! ☺ Anyway, after popping into the huge shop, we managed to find our way to the Wandlebury park. We just followed signs to Adenbrooks Hospital. We remembered it was near there. Last year we went, we got lost a bit, a year before, Marcus drove there without getting lost. Miracle. Previous visits there, it was warm, I fell a sleep on the grass. But this time, ground was wet so that I couldn't fall asleep.

We started wondering around. Leaves on trees were still colourful, and the same time they were getting bearer and bearer... We were following the footpath, did big circle, and came back to the car park... I wanted to walk along the Roman road. I started feeling myself a bit grumpy...Where was it? Eventually we found it, I thought a moment, it was different place. thanks to Marcus, he remembered where it was. ☺ 

This Roman avenue leads to another Roman road which starts from Cambridge, finishes in Haverhill. It's a loooon way, but we'd love to walk that one day with our snacks and smoothies. 

I love the avenue because almost as if I time tripped into different era and to me, it has really cool energy. One day I love to visit all the significant places(all pyramids in the whole world, Jersarem, Mecca, Tibet, China great wall, all the stone monuments etc...) and feel them!!! When I close my eyes, I can feel inside, I'd love to feel it physically. One day!

Anyway, we saw cute cow chilling out between the tree, tried to talk to her/him but we were ignored. ☹ Never mind, he/she was maybe thinking, didn't want to get bothered by humans!

Here's some photos I took in Wandlebury. Very pretty aren't they? It was mild and even sun was out. So we made the most of it. And it was awesome day and walk.

    We were walking on the carpet of leaves! It was very very autumny. When we were admiring those colours of leaves on trees, a older lady stopped and spoke to us how splendid trees were up in Scotland last week. Wow! When I see nature like that, I always feel very grateful to be able to do that. So, I always enjoy and breath the colours and air in and fill me inside! And then, when I get home, I can still feel it inside. Every time I frustrate /stressed at work, I just need to remember to breath in the colours and air, and breath out frustration/stress out. Actually I started doing that recently, and it works(for me)! 

This is the Roman road/avenue. It's beautiful. In summer, it's proper green tunnel and smells gorgeous with leaves, trees and plants. It's defo worth visiting for walks. The day we went, it was quite busy, car park was almost full, never seen such many people there before, but by the time we got there, it was quiet. It's a big park, also, there's a big green where families can have a picnic, play footballs and having fun. I don't remember parking fee, I'm sure it was a couple of quid. And now they have parking space for bicycles too!

Look! Found a funny tree too. Looks like a granddad! Or only me think so?

14/oct walk in Holkham, Norfolk

Me and Marcus were talking about Holkham last week, we hadn't been there for ages. We wanted to pay a visit to the beach before it got too cold. Love Norfolk coast, beautiful coast line, grey sky, brown sea, and very English. To me, Holkham is a very special place. One, my first ever walking on Norfolk coast (apart from Waxham sands camping site), two, our first mini holiday together! Three, first time EVER saw geese flying (almost)next to me(and I had tears in my eyes!)

So, I was really looking forward to visit Holkham again. I took my rain jacket and warm hat with me, I was ready! I was told the weekend was going to be quite warm and sunny, they yet again, lied! It was cloudy and cold. Never mind. The most important thing was that we went to Holkham and enjoyed the view.

It didn't take long time to get there from my flat. When we got there, it was freezing. Even though I had warm-ish jacket on and hat, I felt sea wind was very harsh and chilly.

We parked our car by the harbour and started walking to the right.  It was quite busy that day, first time I saw the boathouse was open and people were in and out. Pubs in the area( there were some nice gastro pubs with garden outside, but it was a bit too cold to sit outside...) were quite busy too, having Sunday roast. We didn't go into the pub near by, we had our snacks from lovely Swaffham Waitrose.
Anyway, we began our walk along the foot path. It was sandwiched between the sea and the field. We heard birds were singing and flying over us, nosy cows were chilling out in the field.
And then heard geese! Not sure what it is, I love watching geese flying and listening to them. I still, feel tearful when I see geese flying close to me. Always makes me think "where are they going?"

Oh, I saw some posh English country people were walking along there too. They always have the same sort of style. Green jacket(tweed or quite often Barbour jacket or waxed coat), long wellies(either green ones or they like Joules/Hunters) and a hat. I saw this couple walking in front of me, and thought they were sweeeeet!

I love watching really old couple (granny and granpa) walking in town holding hands. I always smile. I think it's really sweet.When I was in Japan, I never saw granny and granpa holding hands, I reckon it's cultural thing(more like western culture), I hope Japanese old couple will be one day walking with holding hands. I remember a advert( i think it was washing up liquid or hand cream) on T.V years ago(back in 80's...), people were even talking about it(how sweet it was), but in reality, never really took off. I can't see my mum and my dad will be holding hands when they are in their 70's or even 80's. I can see me doing it, but not my parents... Especially my mum now walks with a walking stick.....

Anyway, by the time we got to the beach, it was quiet. No-one to be seen, only us and sea gulls. Sea breeze was very chilly. It was only mid October, felt like it was December! 

Cor, blimey, it was too cold for me to stay in the beach, after 30mins or so, we walked back to our car. All I could think was: a hot cuppa and an cake. We had pour snack in the car, then drove off. I don't remember where we went after that, I think we stopped at a part of Thetford forest for a quick walk. That's where I found a red trippy(naughty) mushroom! Apparently this mushroom is very naughty and slightly poisonous. I don't know much about it, and I never even did mushrooms back in days either. Looks quite cute yet dodgy. I wouldn't fancy eating/smoking that!  ☺

By the way, when we were on the beach, we could see rain pouring down in Wells-next-the-sea. Holkham and Wells is very close, yet, didn't get rain together. But we knew it was a matter of time, we would get rain in where we were.

It was a bit too cold for me to put my swimming togs on and dance in the rain...never mind! I can wait till our holiday in Greece again next year!