Potato Harvesting

As part of Grow your own potatoes, potatoes were grown outside our garden and were harvested a few weeks ago. Children are enjoying harvesting potatoes especially little Georgu.

We have replanted some of our tomato plants into the spot.

A family walk in Malvern Hills

We thought to go for walking in Malvern Hills. It was a very pleasant weather, sunny and warm. Children were eager to climb the hills and we kicked off the day from the car park . Malvern hills looked bit of modest in height but being described as a miniature of mountain ranges. The path remains somewhat steep and took a halt in between our walk towards the Worcester beacon.

Children were climbing the rocks up and down, even little Theresu and Bennu did a fantastic adventure.

We tackled a final steep stretch up to the summit. Beacon is the highest point and it was an amazing view from all directions and it said to be the highest point in Worcester. The day was pleasantly busy ,sunny summer day. We saw a paraglider circling high in the Great Malvern skies and taking a break too as they lay on their back on the slopes.

                Young climber. Little Johny is even attempting to climb with his tiny feet

As we enjoyed the the highest point and continued the walk , had a refreshment stop in between and enjoyed the downhill stroll heading home. It was such a lovely sighting and enjoyed the day

Tours of Scotland

I It was a great and favourite holiday this year to visit Scotland. On the second day of our journey,  we went to National Museum of Scotland where you could have a glance of various things on transport, beginning of steam engine by Scottish engineer James Watt. There were Maglev trains, rockets, test your driving skills in formula 1 car stimulator and so on.

Big kids along with Ani climbed Arthur seat and was an exciting trip for them.

Outside Edinburgh Castle, which is the national icon, mighty fortress, defender of the nation , sanctuary and security for many of Scotland kings and Queens  many countless treasures like crown jewels are protected,  where Mary Queen of Scots gave birth to James 6. As children were not much keen for the castle and we were not tempted to go inside the castle. Absolutely love the view of castle .

It was Vidhya' s birthday and was a blessed day as Fr Sebastian our host celebrated HMass. 

After visiting Museum, we had Mac n went to Falkirk area which sits at the very heart of Scotland, midway between Edinburgh and Glasgow  .

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Falkirk area has two main attractions,  Falkirk wheel was astonishing and it is the world's only rotating boat lift, breathtaking working sculpture which connects two canal also to other.Most fascinating thing for children was the water play park where big children all went in the walking water balloon, theresu n bennu  had the most fun, pedalling plenty in the water alone. 

Falkirk wheel is behind Annu in the picture 

View of different nountains from cruise in Loch Lomund which was a unique sighting and children were all enjoyed in the boat.

Kelpies was the another landmark which we went to see in Falkirk area. This is metallic sculpture made by a Scottish architect , which is like the head of two horses in which sculptor had the vision to follow the lineage of the heavy horse of industry in the area. Picnic with thomas family was fun and then moved to Helix park.

Two great friends Theresu and Ben..

Another landmark of attraction was Forth bridge, cantilever railway bridge over the Firth of Forth.

Altogether it was a great trip and enjoyed the wonderful landscapes, Lochs, mountains and waters of Scotland.