Yesterday and today we walked in the Fairlop country park near our home
It's a regular walking place for us and our nearest "local walk"
Out the door ...5 minutes on the road and 10 minutes through the sports fields and we're there ...and then about 4-5 miles of walking on natural and man made paths
From what I understand, it's a man made lake about 40 years old with various paths all around and smaller lakes on the perimeter ...right now though many paths are very muddy due to the large amount of recent rain...lots of swans, ducks and geese
A great place for children and families ..there are boulders and various timber frames to climb for energetic little ones
Cycle paths and a sailing school where the school children learn as part of their PE lessons
A club house where we often have a coffee on our way home ...more often though we take the long path around the edge and head for the high street where Mac Donald's do a great cup of tea!
There's also a "fun house" with slides and ropes etc where parents and grandparents can watch their children" knock themselves out" when the weather is bad in the holidays...and a climbing school with harnesses for older children
It's where we used to take ours many moons ago........saying that, it was fun to go down the slides ourselves.......before the bad knees got in the way
Now, we can't get up in order to slide down!!!!
Still there's always the cafe!
A sunny day today and a good walk.
On our return I spotted the "Stars and stripes" of America ...first time I'd noticed this
Not sure what the other flag was though.
We'll probably be walking there most days next week too