A few weeks ago I had the pleasure of visiting Richmond Park in London. I had never been there before or heard anything about the park beforehand so when I saw herds of deer roaming freely it was so amazing. The animals looked so timid and beautiful. They’re wild and get frightened easily so getting good shots of them wasn’t easy. This park is definitely worth a visit for anyone visiting London.

I was fortunate enough to be in Holland last weekend. My girlfriend and I spent the Easter long weekend in Amsterdam and we decided to visit Keukenhof, the world’s largest flower garden located in the small town of Lisse, southwest of Amsterdam. To get there from Amsterdam we took the train to Schiphol airport, then the 58 bus which went direct to Keukenhof. The bus ride took about 30 minutes.

Keukenhof was just amazing. I’ve never seen a so many flowers in the one place before. The shear volume of flowers was just breathtaking. We pretty much spent the whole day taking photographs which you can see below. So for those visiting Amsterdam in spring, Keukenhof is a ‘must see’ in my opinion.

Since it was a nice and sunny day in London today I decided to head out to St James’s Park and take a few photographs. St James’s Park is located in Westminster, right next to Buckingham Palace so there are always heaps of people around taking photos and feeding the birds and squirrels which are all over the park.

There seemed to be more birds on the grass today than usual but I think it may have had something to do with the lake being empty. Well, the ducks at least anyway. It looks like the lake is in the process of getting a major clean up and refill.

The park is also home to heaps of squirrels which are so cute. You can see them hesitantly taking peanuts offered by many of the park’s visitors. You can see one eating a peanut in one of the photos.

As part of our weekend in Tasmania Xuan and I drove about 70 kilometres out of Hobart to the Huon Valley to experience the Tahune Forest AirWalk which is a 597 metre walk 20 metres above the ground. The highlight of the walk is the cantilever which protrudes out from the main walk structure giving amazing views of the surrounding forest and the junction of the Picton and Huon Rivers. It was a little scary though as the cantilever swayed in the wind and bounced while you walked.

We also did the Huon Pine Walk which took us across two suspension bridges over the Picton and Huon Rivers. You’re supposed to leave a 10 metre gap between walkers for safety while crossing the bridges. The bridges bounced and swayed heaps as you walked on them. Now that was a pretty amazing experience.

I spent last weekend at the Grampians (officially the Grampians National Park in Victoria, Australia) with my mum’s side of the family which was a lot of fun. There were around 16 of us and we all stayed at the cosy Mt Zero Log Cabins.

On Sunday we made our way to Mt Stapylton to tackle the 2 hour walk. We were told the walk would be a little challenging but we had no idea it would be as involving as it was (I found out later on that travel guides graded the walk as either moderate or hard). There were many slippery rock surfaces and certain areas required some rock hopping and rock scrambling which would have been a little too dangerous for my youngest cousin and some of the older folks in the group. There weren’t any guard rails either so it wouldn’t have taken much for someone to accidentally slip and fall off a rock ledge.

In the end about half of us made it all the way to the summit. The views were quite spectacular. I especially liked the numerous rock pools scattered around the summit area which you can see in photos below.