If there’s one factor London isn’t missing, it’s parks. In actual fact, London is among the world’s greenest cities (within the very literal sense of the time period) as 40% of it’s made up of inexperienced house.
The capital is residence to a whopping 3,000 parks overlaying 35,000 acres of land, so that you’re by no means very removed from a patch of inexperienced irrespective of the place you’re within the metropolis.
Whereas our parks have been a supply of solace throughout lockdown, we’re about to really feel one other stage of gratitude for them once we can begin assembly our mates for picnics on the finish of March.
Here is an excellent easy information to Boris Johnson’s four-step roadmap out of lockdown
As a part of Boris Johnson’s four-step plan to ease the UK out of lockdown, we can be allowed to fulfill extra individuals outdoors in parks and gardens, both below the ‘rule of six’ or between two households, from March 29 on the earliest.
Throughout our numerous lockdowns, it’s no surprise that we’ve turned to parks for a bit psychological well being enhance. A examine from 2019 discovered {that a} 20-minute stroll in a park is among the finest methods to beat stress. The analysis from the College of Michigan discovered {that a} park stroll can scale back stress hormones by as much as 10%.
Fortunately for us, Londoners are spoilt for selection in the case of fairly parks. Whether or not you’re after one thing that may severely get your steps up (deer watching in Richmond Park ought to do the trick), otherwise you need to delve deep into the woods of South London (Sydenham Hill Wooden is finest for that), otherwise you merely need to discover London’s central oases (Hyde Park and Inexperienced Park are your finest bets), there’s a park for each metropolis dweller.
There are many enjoyable outside actions to do throughout the UK this summer time (together with wildlife safaris)
