Spending Time in the South

Since Monday we are in Surrey, a county in the South of England. The family lives in a big house with a beautiful garden and a lot of space. It is really fantastic to have your own bathroom with everything you need. After being at Polesden Lacey on Tuesday we went to a ice-skating competition on Wednesday. In this competition the son of R.'s friend partook and therefore she knew about it. It was in a huge leisure centre in Guildford and many people sat in the audience. We saw girls and boys from sixteen to eighteen and it was a new experience. It was funny to see how the families were thrilled for their kids. The girls had worn beautiful but very short dresses and the guys were dressed in black. It was a whole new world and it must be very hard for the boys and girls to stay up early in the morning to practice ice-skating. R.'s friend explained to us her son must stay up at 4o'clock in the morning to train before school. It was not allowed to take photos so I haven't got any photo of the competition.

We went in the city for lunch in a beautiful location. Everything was rose and pastel blue and they had a fantastic china with flowers and other nice things. R. had not enough time to stay longer so J. and I went to the Wisley Garden show. It was only a 20-minutes drive and I must admit I don't no much about flowers and gardening. But this show was really interesting ! There was a huge (!) park and you can go there in every season. In the park there are many different sections and on one side there stands a gigantic glasshouse which contains a lot of special tropical flowers. I liked the geraniums the most. They were in all different colours and heights. We also liked the new "handkerchief-tree" which was very tall and amazing! It also looked a little bit like if there were many doves on the tree.

In the park there was also an amazing house in which the staff could work and research. J. said that she would like to live there but I cannot imagine living in such a crowded place. We wandered around the sculpture exhibition and there were some weird things, some funny pieces of art (like dolphins which looked like if they would swim on the grass) but also many beautiful things. J. liked the sculpture made of glass and different colours so I made a photo for her.

We stayed there for 3 hours and wandered around. I have never seen so many different kinds of flowers and it was absolutely worth it!

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