A walk trough Hyde Park …...

I really like to have a good and long walk, when possible!
It was really cold the first weekend we were in London, but the sky was so blue and tempting… so we waited some extra days before buying our Oyster cards !!!! ;oD

What I really enjoyed is to have the opportunity to share nice chit chats with my boys while walking to our daily destinations and it was really good to have the opportunity to taste winter (when it was the last time ????) and listen to the "crick crock" of the ice under our feet !!!!!

Tobia had even the possibility to have a kind of bath in the Serpentine …… There was a plastic bag in the lake and he wanted to pull it out from the water …. such a good boy, but the bank was slippery, so in few seconds he had water reaching his calves ….. Luckily he came out quickly and not far away there was a Primark department store, where we entered to buy, at least, a pair of thermic socks…. phew!!!!

The following 10 pictures, instead, were taken 2 days later in the same park and puddles …

Tobia is the author of this splendid photo!!!!

…. reading some comics together after lunch!

xxxx Alessandra

Lowveld National Botanical Garden, Nelspruit (South Africa)

Last Monday we jumped on the car and we went to South Africa in Nelspruit, where we stayed for 4 days.
We had some Christmas shopping over there, as there are a couple of lovely malls (forget this kind of things in Maputo) and where the things are affordable (forget even this in Maputo!) and where we enjoyed a couple of movies with our kids (the last Hobbit and the cartoon from Disney Big Hero 6)!!!

One morning, we decided to visit (a good stroll in the open air was needed!) the Lowveld National Botanical Garden, where we had a lovely walk immersed in the greenery of the African Rainforest and where the silence was interrupted by the roaring of the falls ….

I took the following pictures with my smartphone, as my camera was forgotten in the closet of our hotel room….ooooppppsss…….. !!!!!

Enjoy!!!

…some plastic bottles, but ..

do you see a horse's head, too?

the Balloon Milkweed

the Strangler Fig Tree

Fig Tree

…. Those faces !!!!!

It was not a sunny day and we were not able to see any hippos, but you know what?? It was a very good day spent together with my 3 men, big, medium and little!!!!

xxxx Alessandra