This is definitely the best time of the year for me and probably everyone else in the UK – especially students who have their 6 weeks summer holidays to look forward to! It never felt like summer time for me unless I was going on holiday somewhere but I am definitely changing my mind. In London the weather is now getting quite lovely during June, July and August – so I think it’s a good idea to stay here and make the most of it. (Maybe global warming isn’t such a bad thing!! OK, that’s definitely a bad Joke.)
I have noticed that more people are going on holiday to get away from London’s weather when it’s horribly grey and wet and when holidays are also much cheaper!
I’m really excited about my holiday to Cyprus next week but will not be going anywhere else for a while once I get back to the UK- not that I have plans to get bored here over the summer!
My new book ‘101 places to see before you die’ has great ideas of places to visit that I can’t wait to start on. It suggests parts of the Great British countryside, old castles and places where old famous people had lived. I would love to see some parts of the UK that books and films have been based on and have already visited Chatsworth house where one of my Jane Austen favourites ‘Pride and Prejudice’ was filmed.
I will probably be visiting the park across the road from me quite a lot during summer too. It’s called Victoria Park because Queen Victoria gave the land to East London as a gift for the children. It has its own deer park, maze and fishing lake, which I have never been able to catch anything from! The playground has a glider and some of the biggest slides I have ever seen and I could literally spend hours there feeling like a child again.
Most of all, I love cycling through the park and racing my brothers and sister over the speed ramps! I know that even if I do nothing all summer apart from walk over the road to the park it will still be a great holiday and I can’t wait to make the most of it…
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