Sunday excursion

To a bookshop, via Hampstead Heath. Taking gentle exercise: up the hill and back down again.

Hampstead Heath in bloom - cow parsley and chestnut

Dappled shade and dogwalkers

More dapples, with runners this time

Into Hampstead village, with churchbells ringing peals (interminably, it seemed)

A good year for wisteria

Seen on Flask Walk

Here lived the author of the Eton Boating Song, written in 1862

Neighbours - wisteria and clematis

A touch of Arabia on the way back to the station
(and mares' tails heralding a change in the weather)

Near the station is Daunt Books - "travel, literature, and non-fiction" (they have some interesting talks to listen to, here). So many books, so little time, so many that I wanted to read immediately (but did not buy) - 

 We were prowling round in the Berlin section, with its fiction conveniently grouped -

A good half of the books were set in or dealt with WW2. I was after something more historical, or more modern, not sure which; again, I wasn't able to choose anything to buy. Maybe the desired novel will appear when we get there. Or after we come back?