今日は朝から１日とっても良いお天気。お昼前に夫に、「Leonardslee Lakes & Gardensに行きたいんだけど。」と言うと、夫、「今日は行けない、３時過ぎてから屋根の修理に来るから。」と。残念、せっかく良いお天気だし、明日からしばらく雨みたいだから今日行きたかったのに、と言いながら諦めてクラフトルームでネットをしたりしていると、誰２時前に来ていたので早いけど屋根の修理かなと思っていたらやはりそうだったそうで、近くにいるから今から行っても良いかと連絡があったそう。ということで、２時ごろに出かけました。（ちなみに、屋根からの水漏れでこの何ヶ月かの間に何度か修理に来てもらっているのですが直らず、どうも簡単な修理では済まないらしく、屋根の一部を取ってやりかえなくてはいけないそうで、修理代は£５０００近く、日本円で978000円かかるとのことで、ショックです、涙。）
It's been a beautiful day all day today! Around lunch time, I said to my husband, "Can we go to Leonardslee Lakes & Gardens?" but he said, "Not today because the roof guy is coming to mend the roof after 3:00pm". What a shame! It's such a lovely day today and it'll be raining for the next few days... but after 3:00pm is too late, so I gave up the idea and was on my PC in my craft room and heard someone coming in before 2:00pm. I was wondering if the roof man came early and he did, apparently he was near us so he came early and he was gone very quickly. (Well, we've had the roof mended a few times in the last 6 months or so, but apparently it's not something that can be mended easily and a part of the roof have to come down, it'll cost nearly £5,000! So sad.) So we managed to go out around 2:00pm.
Leonardslee Lakes & Gardens には長い歴史があるそうですが、２０１７年に現在持ち主の企業家が購入してリノベーションをして、２０１９年に９年ぶりに公開されることになったそうです。我が家から車で１時間程度のところにあり、ウェブサイトを見ると石楠花や皐月が綺麗なところのようだったので、今の時期が丁度綺麗かもしれないと期待していました。ただ、今年は全体的にお花が早いのでどうかなとも思っていましたが、とても綺麗でした。陽がよく当たるところはピークは過ぎて散ってしまっていたりべちゃっとなっていたりでしたが、陽があまり当たらないところはまだ蕾がほとんどの状態で、その間のところが綺麗に咲いているという感じです。特にショッキングピンクのが目立って綺麗でした。石楠花や皐月が綺麗だったのは、ロックガーデンがあるところで、上からも見下ろせて見事でした。ただ、写真を見て思ったのですが、その一番綺麗な場所のピークはもう少し先のような気がします、まだ咲いてない部分が結構多く見られます。
その後、湖があるところまで歩いて降りて、また上って。全部で、４キロ弱、５７００歩強歩きました。ヨーロッパでは１万歩前後歩いていたのでそれに比べるとかなり少ないですが、久しぶりにそこそこ歩けて良かった。
Leonardslee Lakes & Gardens has a long history, but the current entrepreneur purchased it in 2017, renovated it and, after 9 years work, reopened it to the public. It's about an hour away from us by car and their website showed rhododendrons and azelias looking beautiful and I thought they must be looking nice now. Flowers are early this year so I wasn't sure how good they would be but they were really beautiful. Those in the areas where the sun hits for long hours were over their peak, many already fallen, but those in the areas which are in shade for many hours were still in buds and those in between were looking quite good. The shocking pink ones were particularly eye catching and beautiful. The best view of them was from the top of the rock garden area. Looking at the photos, though, I wonder if it's not the peak yet, it looks like there are quite a lot of bushes that don't have flowers yet.
After admiring them, we walked down to the lakes, then walked up again. In total, we walked about 4km, 5700 steps. We were walking around 10,000 steps a day in Europe so that isn't much, but I'm glad we managed to walk more than we have been doing since we got back from our holiday.
今日もたくさんの写真で失礼します。一番綺麗だったところは、真ん中くらいに出て来ます。
Apologies for adding so many photos. The most beautiful parts are about the middle.
いつものように一通り歩いた後、お茶とケーキ（コーヒーと胡桃のケーキをシェアー）を食べて、戻って来ました。入場料が大人１人£15.50（3000円）と駐車料金も900円ほどかかるので結構お高いのが難点ですが、見応えがありましたのでわたしたちは行って良かったですし、来年も行きたい場所の１つです。
After walking around the gardens, we sat at their cafe and had a tea/coffee and a cake to share. The entrance ticket for an adult is £15.50 and you also have to pay for the parking (a little more than £4), so it seems quite expensive but the display of rhododendrons & azelias was gorgeous and very impressive, so we were very happy that we visited it and we will try to go back next year.
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