opera in the park

Yesterday at about 6 in the evening we caught a bus to Temple Newsam in Leeds. It is beautiful estate house about 20 minutes away from Leeds and has a magnificent garden around it. I have been there once before with Juan-Carlos and Hike for a nice little bike ride and it was good to get away from the madness of the city itself.

But yesterday was not about that. In the gardens there were more than 50,000 people with picnic baskets, tons of food, wine, beer in the lovely sunshine waiting for an Opera. Yes, it was an Opera in the park. It was my very first one, and I absolutely loved it. Just the ambience itself was also fantastic, but even better was the music. We had a good bunch of people chilling there having a good time and enjoying what is called the British summer. It was nice to see people from all walks of life getting together.. there was an entire range right from aristocrats to chavs.. a complete mix.

Needless to say that we got back pretty late at night and continued the good times back in Leeds.