……. seeing we had the Botanist and the Entomologist members of the family staying with us (Sarah, Alan & Molly), we decided that it was a “must do”. Kew, the Royal Botanic Gardens, is one of the world's leading botanic gardens, holding over 1 in 8 of every known plant species, amazing really when you consider the size of the whole world and they fit an eighth of all the plants into 300 acres…..most impressive! It was a perfect day and we set off with our picnic. We love traveling by public transport (trains mainly), the Brits moan constantly about the awfulness of British Rail, but we smile, we know what rotten public transport is really like! Unfortunately British Rail was having a bad day and while it only took us 30 minutes to get into the centre of London from here, it took nearly an hour and a half from London to reach Kew…….a nuisance, but not a real problem, Molly loves traveling by train.
We spent 4 or 5 hours there and saw only a small part of it, the glasshouses were amazing and we only did 3 of those, there are about 8! It’s a remarkable place, it was first established in 1700 and in 2003 was made a World Heritage site – I did, for a mad moment, imagine holding a Lantern Festival there!!!!! Checking their website, one finds the ‘events’ are far more sedate! It’s a wonderful ever changing place and well worth visiting again and again (British Rail notwithstanding!)……meanwhile the bluebells have been doing their thing and the rape fields are also going “off”….it’s a beautiful time of year! We are catching the Eurostar through the Chunnel to France this week for 10 days, can’t wait…….lots of love xxx
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