Another trip to Kew Gardens – this time I found lovely different shapes in the plants. We walked through the rainforest, grasses and admired another beautiful open waterlily.
Never lose an opportunityof seeing something beautiful,
for beauty is God's handwriting.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
God was very creative making wonderful shapes for us to admire.
Aloe – spiral
soft long thin grass in the wind
long – titan arum
just amazing….
We saw a fruit in different stages
God gave us eyesto see the beauty of nature
and hearts to see the beauty in each other.
Norwich is a very old city in Norfolk with a beautiful Cathedral, a castle and a lovely towncentre with a market.
We had a house close to the citycentre to our disposal and discovered Norwich by foot daily.
We found a beautiful little garden ‘Plantation Garden‘ also called the Secret garden which was built at the site of a Chalk Quarry. Henry Trevor shaped the garden in 1855. It is an oasis for tranquility, we loved it every day!
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Norwich Cathedral
In the Cathedral there was Dippy, the famous skeleton of the Diplodocus which is usually in London in the Natural History Museum. He is on tour and currently in Norwich.
It was very impressive.
Norwich has plenty of churches, we discovered though that many are not for worship. We found an art centre in a church, a bookshop with coffee shop and one was full of antiques for sale.
Norwich is a University city too, the – some cobbled- streets a lovely, the market beautiful and the little narrow lanes in between have old houses with quirky shops.
We have been in Norwich before (2017) and saw the Castle , blog post here
We bought some plants as a souvenir for the garden.
Let us find magic in all the little things in life.
Our next stop was Rye a small English town by the coast in East Sussex. In the centre, cobbled lanes like Mermaid Street are lined with medieval, half-timbered houses. Mermaid Street is most famous where the Mermaid Inn is located which was used by smugglers. The historic houses date back from 15th century – many are 500 and 600 years old. You find also a Castle and the Ypres Tower.
Ypres TowerCastle
Many of the old houses in the centre have lovely names above the door:
The house with two doors
The house with the seat
The house oppsite
The house opposite
Mermaid Street
The Mermaid Inn, rebuilt 1420
The house with two front doors
Every house is made up beautifully with flowers in the front. I can imagine they are rather quirky inside.
Outer beauty is what the eyes can see,
inner beauty can only be seen through the heart.
~ Cagla Bicer ~
The Waterlily house is open again, hurray, of course with limited amount of people going in at a time.
Some close ups:
The Rose Garden was amazing, all roses blooming and giving their wonderful scent to us.
I found some beautiful coloured flowers, which I thought need a bit of ironing…only joking 🙂 The crumbly look made them even more special, they were rather delicate in both colours.
A special playful large scale bench waited for us to simply sit, relax and smell the planted circle of rock roses in the middle and enjoy nature.
New growth coming form every tree, and plant. I always love to see growth.
Every time I visit I find different plants, flowers and enjoy nature more than ever. It pushes happiness button every time and makes me grateful to live in such a wonderful world.
Heaven is under our feet as well as over our head.
We went along to Bateman's, which was Rudyard Kipling's house for 34 years and were he died in 1936. It is a 17th century house, beautiful with vast land around as Rudyard Kipling bought more land during his time there.
Rudyard Kipling's most famous fiction is the Jungle book.
Rudyard Kipling was the most famous author in England,and was earning £5,000 per year; the cost of Bateman's, £9,300, was thus entirely affordable. ( A secretary earned around £80 a year).
He wrote many stories in this house, his American wife made sure he would not be disturbed uncessessay.
Bateman’s built 1634Garden
Outer beauty is what the eyes can see,
inner beauty can only be seen through the heart.
~ Cagla Bicer ~
His rather large blue Rolls Royce from the 1920’s was displayed in the garage. He loved that car. It was behind glass and the picture did not come out.