The long-awaited walk, not the daily and obligatory one, but the weekly one, is more special because it is the sought-after one, not the routine one.
The walk I call mandatory is the one that requires me to take a minimum of 5000 steps, carefully counted by the app on my phone. Mandatory, because it's done for medical purposes, mainly to keep my old bones from rusting, yet!
The strange thing is that these two kinds of walks, the long-awaited and the routine, are similar in their main part, namely, they both happen, in general, in the same places, so they repeat. But I don't get bored walking through the same well-known places, each time something is changed, from our mood to small changes in the landscape.
In general, the obligatory walk is around the house, through the neighborhood, and the long-awaited one is in the favorite park, now called King Michael Park but called by all the inhabitants of the city Herastrau Park.
This is a large park, the largest in the city (Bucharest), and has the largest indoor lake. I like blue and I like the lake. A walk around the lake is more than 4 km long and that's all I want.
This was a morning walk, a very nice December morning, so I can say it was a walk done a year ago. The best time for the walk is in the morning. It seems like the air is cleaner and there are few walkers.
I chose to show this walk because of the special colors of autumn before they turn grey after the cold kills all the colors of the tree leaves.
Autumn, instead of dressing up nature, has rather undressed it. In these places, in summer, the wisteria reigned supreme with its dark green foliage and purple flowers.
My favorite trees are some that prefer colder regions but because of their beauty, they have been modified to be more decorative and have been planted in parks. I also have some birch trees in my small yard, but they are normal ones, not transformed into weeping trees. Whatever the shape, they are splendid trees!
Now I will try to explain why I chose this title for the post. Before I wrote I had no idea of an attractive title. Then the combination of blue sky and lake made me think of... blue.
Then, because I feel like I don't have enough time to do everything I want to do, I usually listen to music when I write a post, and today I'm listening to a collection of blues on Spotify. Thus today's title was born! An example...
A walk through this park can be long and that's why I chose a place where it ends, at least for this post. The chosen terminus was near (somehow) the Elizabeth Palace.
Elisabeta Palace is the residence of the daughter, Princess Margareta, of the former King of Romania, King Michael, who died a few years ago.
This royal residence is located near the park and is surrounded by a museum, the Village Museum. Because of this we can get quite close and see the palace, actually quite a small palace. From this place, I can also see the Museum, with a wooden church brought from the north of the country.
This museum, the most interesting in the city because the exhibits are houses hundreds of years old and brought from all regions of the country, a museum very visited by both residents and tourists. Soon I will show here some of the walks I made through the Village Museum in Bucharest, Romania.
I'll say it again and again, I've found that my main activity lately is... walking. Like all of you, I love to walk, but only now I have realized that walking has become my main mode of relaxation. Slowly, slowly overtaking the other pleasures I still have.
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