The amazing thing about Kew Gardens is that one moment you are on a busy road in a busy area of busy London and next you are in this enormous green space full of fantastic plants and trees and it is a quiet haven of tranquillity. OK, shared with a few thousand other people at the wekend.
The treetop walk is great fun. Whoever thought that putting holes in the metal path was a good idea needs firing. It was disturbing yet intriguing to see a small boy jumping up and down on it, tesing its flexibility.