After our giant meal in the early hours of this morning 🙂 it turned out that today would actually be a good day for getting some exercise.

We first started with a longish walk through Regent’s Park picking up some coffee and ice cream on our journey. Although it wasn’t blue skies above the day was actually a fairly nice one – not very cold, winds weren’t strong and it wasn’t raining. Thankfully, though Regent’s Park was fairly busy, it was far enough from the Baker Street tube that we were insulated from the madness of the drunken football fans who were around for today’s Carling Cup final between Tottenham and Chelsea.

Our long walk through Regent’s Park was followed with a game of tennis at the Paddington Recreation Grounds near Maida Vale. The Grounds is a hidden gem located only a few tube stops away from my home and offer quite reasonable prices for court hire (for example its £7 p.h. for a hardcourt and £11 p.h. for the synthetic grass court compared with Regent’s Park £11 p.h. for a hardcourt and Hyde Park’s I think £12 p.h.) The courts are also much nicer quality though of course less central than the other two tennis courts.

It must have been about 4 years since I’ve picked up a tennis raquet but playing tennis is clearly just like riding a bike – you never forget! Strangely enough I sometimes think that the longer I don’t play/practise the better I play! Heh heh.

We booked two courts so whilst Enrique (who is also a tennis coach) gave Mirela her tennis lesson I took on Mr A and towards the end we swapped around till we had all had a chance to play each other. Good fun!