A Lovely Saturday Morning Walk

After being thwarted from doing a favourite dog walk on Friday, due to new parking restrictions, I was determined to go back on Saturday when the restrictions didn't apply.

When I got there, there were lots of parking spaces to chose from, so different from during the week and we headed off into the nearby park. 

The park itself is on a hill and I wanted to first check out something at the top of the hill, so we headed up there first. They've done some building work in this part of the park and have built a new building called the Glass House.

This was the place that I wanted to check out, as on Monday lunchtimes they do a free yoga class for over 50's and I'm thinking of going along. It looks really like a really nice space.

It is situated next to the park cafe.

It's a lovely cafe, we used to go there years ago when LB was small as we had an allotment close to this park. It has lots of outside tables, although it was very quiet at 9.30 am on Saturday morning when I walked past and I didn't have any money on me to stop and have a drink.

We then explored the pond area and admired the view from the top of the park.

We then left the park and walked over a little bridge over the canal. The local Marina can be seen from here. Lots of people live here permanently on their boats, with lots of others moored all along the canal here. It's a lovely spot.

We then headed into a wildlife area with lots of different shady paths to take, which was good as it was very hot.

Eventually, we came back over another little bridge near the rowing club. I'd love to take up rowing as a hobby.

Once over the bridge, we were nearly back at the car, so we stopped and sat in the shade for a while on the sports field. Our old allotment was way over in the far corner behind the rugby goal posts.

The dog was tired by this point, so I carried her back to the car on my shoulder. Bless her, she's getting on in years. She enjoyed the walk though. 

It was fun to take a trip down memory lane and do a completely different walk for once. A very enjoyable way to get 4.000 steps in too.