Hampshire and Berkshire in Bloom

England in the countryside is truly beautiful. Traveling though Berkshire and Hampshire, one sees the roses blooming, baskets of annuals, swans in the small rivers and lakes, Copper and Purple Beeches, and chaffinches.

England at its best is not London today, but the old villages and towns with churches, small lanes which end up in pubs, children playing everywhere in the parks and old couples walking by the streams.

Forget the Olympics. Go for a walk in the country.