Trams, trains and all that

Today was a momentous day in the Jennings household - Sam had been pestering to go on a tram for ages and one of his rewards on his reward chart is a tram ride. Last week he earned this reward so today we set off for Wimbledon to ride on the tram to Croydon.

It was a bit of a mammoth journey. Starting at Queens Road we headed to Barking and then got the District Line to Wimbledon. It would have taken less time to get the train up to Cheshire to visit my family! We had a bit of a pit stop in Wimbledon to have a quick look round the shops then to eat our picnic. Using the magic that is Google maps on my IPhone I saw there was a small park nearby so we ventured off to find it. Sometimes it is nice to not know where you are going and you come across pretty little places like South Park Gardens. It was a cute little park, complete with its own "Bar", seen here on the right of the picture which was a tiny little kiosk selling drinks and snacks.

A well earned drink after a long journey

Picnic done we headed back to the station and got on the tram to West Croydon. Boy was that an experience. I thought travelling by bus in Walthamstow was strange........ I had only ever heard bad things about Croydon, but wanted to give it the benefit of the doubt as living in Walthamstow I am used to hearing negative opinions about a place that is actually really nice. However, it was as awful as I had heard and we beat a hasty retreat to the train station and made our way home via Canada Water and Stratford.

If Sam ever asks to go on a tram again I will take him up to Manchester!