Hampstead Heath

Yesterday Nate and I took a little day trip to Hampstead Heath and Kenwood House. This Heath (Park) and English Heritage site is in North London. It is not that far from the center of London but it was so nice to get a break from the city. Nate and I are both country folk at heart and we get a little stir crazy in this big city. Hampstead Heath and Kenwood house are very popular summer desinations for kite flying and picnics. Kenwood houses some really cool Gainsborough's and Reynold's paintings. They also have and amazing Library that Nate and I want to copy someday. You may recognize the scene in some of the pictures if you are a Julia Roberts/Hugh Grant fan. This is where they filmed that scene in Notting Hill where she is doing the period film and he goes to visit her.

I loved this picture so we walked over this muddy field to get to the bridge and discovered that it is not a bridge at all. It is one bog piece of wood with no way to get across. They put it there to make the scene prettier. I thought that sounded like a lot of work and they may as well just finish the bridge. We felt a little jipped and very muddy but it was still really beautiful.

Nate is a good sport to do stuff like this with me. His hair gets longer and longer but he insists he won't cut it until we get home.

We tried to recreate Julia's scene here but I didn't have a big fancy dress or makeup artists or anything. The house is really pretty.