On a Sunday, Tim’s sister was having a family picnic at Coombe Park, and Tim invited Raeph and me to go.

We had a great time, his family was very nice and they had a lot of food, barbecue: pork shops, sausages, chicken…, pork and beans, salads, many desserts, so much food I don’t even remember everything they had. Everything was just great.

 Tim gave us a tour of the park which consists of 500 acres (no, we did not walk the 500 acres, just close to it); there are many trails and walks, and an abbey next to a lake, which is a hotel now, where they host weddings, anniversaries and big parties. There are magnificent gardens and many swans, ducks and different types of birds. Many people go birth watching due to the large heron population.

Of course after the walk we eat some more.

Then most everybody played cricket. Raeph and I just looked without either one of us knowing what they were doing, still it was fun game, I guess.

Another day Tim took Raeph and me for a walk on this park in this old town (that I forgot the name), very nice town, with thatched roof houses and canals with narrow boats, and a little old church next to a very old cemetery.

Most of these old towns are so quaint, so nice; it is like looking at a postcard.