Different shades of Green

July 20, 2013

Different shades of Green

I decided to merge my second and third day in the UK because I haven't done that much and to write short blogs with a couple of images will be wasteful. Think of the virtual worlds blank pages as killing a virtual tree.

The one thing I have noticed and begun to love about the UK is how amazingly green it is. I knew that I am an old soul, so when I got to see the prehistoric buildings and the amazing architecture, it was normal for me to fall in love with it. But I never thought that I would fall in love with nature too.
Everyone always brags about hiking in the most breathtaking places or 4X4-ing in the most remote places and some people even tend to spam my social networks with pictures of nature and I use to think 'Whaaaaat?'. Now, I understand.

I've never come across a place so naturally green and filled with so much wild life that it could make any explorer extremely happy. I went for a walk in the woods (just behind the house believe it or not) and we saw all kinds of electric coloured flying creatures, spiders, dogs, horses and loads of bunnies. And again, I've fallen in love with nature. Something I never before saw beauty in.

Being very close to the airport,
we see this every three minutes

Just a random tree in a very small garden

The Start of the walk

There is an archway of spider webs.
I was brave enough to walk through this.

My two cousins

Another adventure for me was a drive through to McDonalds, which we did in order to see if the food was different. It was difficult to compare this because I'm a fold over girl and in England, they don't make fold over meals. I was a very sad lady indeed! I also got to explore one of the biggest bulk supplying manufacturers in the world (Costco) and we stopped at Tesco. Everything in that store is NOT Nikita sized and it almost feels like you've stepped into the land of the Giants. Everything is HUGE and cheap. I was blown away.

At Mc Donalds with my cousin

My cousin is addicted to collecting wigs,
so when we were home we tried on her new find.

This place is HUGE

My Uncle being the Taxi Driver

I found these shoes for a steal at a shoe store.
I still dream about them.

I really wanted to take this monkey home,
But I resisted!

You all know that British people love their tea and believe me, if you think that's just a generalization, it's not. It's the absolute truth. There are so many different kinds of tea here that I'm spoilt for choice and I'm usually just a box-standard 5 Roses kind of girl. But alas, being in a different place, it's a given that you need to try everything.

This is called Blooming Flower tea.
My cousin convinced me to try some and as gross as it looks.
it tastes just like honey.

The last experience of the day was one of the biggest highlights of my life.

We drove to Windsor and went for a walk around so I could see a snippet into the life of Brits. We saw so much old architecture and I had to keep reminding myself I was in another country. Sometimes when the English speak, I can't understand a word of it. Their accents are so strong, it sounds like they're speaking a different language all together.

After walking through the streets and passing a window of a guy on the second floor of a building leaning out of his window singing and playing guitar for all the passerby's, we went to feed the swans.

An interesting fact: All the swans in the entire UK are the Queens (even if you breed your own) and they are all protected by the Queen.

Because the swans were so eager for bread, they were attempting to step out of the lake and grab the bread out of my hands, so I lent forward and fed them the bread straight from my hands. Not a very smart idea considering they bite, but they bite so softly that I just feed them like that. I thought 'Screw it!' It's the closest I was ever going to get to a swan, so battle scars were totally worth it.