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| All the Queen's horses being moved or exercised |
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| Colorful Farmers Market |
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Hampstead is a beautiful neighborhood with
interesting place to stop in, charming
old houses and interesting architecture.
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For our last two nights before flying out of Heathrow, we stayed in a lovely area, Hampstead. We tried to stay in St. John's Wood where we planned to meet up with Dick Ferguson, a pilot for Air Canada, who is a friend and neighbor in Mexico. St. John's Wood was full because of a big cricket match and Hampstead places us one stop away on the tube. We thoroughly enjoyed walking this neighborhood with baby buggies, bicycles, children in school uniforms, little ladies with their grocery baskets going to the market, cute pubs and coffe shops. Even with a few new buildings, this place has not lost it's blessed landscape with beautiful trees and flowers, it has not turned into a concrete sprawl and unchecked suburbanization. There seems to be a reverence for heritage in England and there is still plenty of enchantment to offer. We enjoyed exploring this area and was a great change of pace. We are a short tube ride from the Churchill Rooms that we plan to vist along with spending time with Dick. We stayed in a small business hotel that connected to the backyards of muti-family homes and realized this was not a tourist area - even better. I am going to divide this post and the last day and not make it too lenghty.
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