Rita is a keen blader and was super keen to go out for a blade in Regent’s Park. I brought my blades over about three years ago but haven’t been out on them because to be honest I suck at roller blading! I can get going on them but stopping just seems out of my skill set. So, with Rita’s invite, I thought it would be a good time to blow the dust off (literally) and try them out.

We headed to Regent’s Park but failed to see the signs at the entrance declaring no skating allowed in the park. It wasn’t until we were blading past this old woman who shouted abuse at us about skating being dangerous and not allowed in the park that we cottoned on. Oops! The skating wasn’t coming along so successfully at any rate on my half. Rita, though, is a whiz. For example, we were just standing at the map looking for a bike track or something we could blade and I fell over and bunged my knee!

Since we were in Regent’s Park we decided to go for a bit of a walk around. In particular we visited Queen Mary’s Rose Gardens. Both the gardens and the day were glorious:

The wildlife were pretty cute too:

After walking around a bit in Regent’s Park we decided to head to Hyde Park to fit in some more blading. To be honest I was a bit nervous after the rubbish performance at Regent’s Park. I managed to skate for about 200 metres before disaster struck. The path wasn’t particularly hilly (probably about a five degree incline) but I couldn’t slow myself down. Next thing I knew I kissing the ground also somehow spinning myself into the wrong direction!

Unfortunately I didn’t have any safety gear (I know – not a good move) so I got a boo boo on my elbow. 🙁

After this I left Rita to the blading and me doing a fast walk behind her. We ended up down at the Serpentine. We were going to try and get a pedalo but the brilliant day meant the queues were huge so we settled for some ice-cream and girly-talk instead.