Hampstead Heath

As with most walks i am doing, I'm usually up at 5am & out by 5.40am. This morning I'm off to what they call the Hampstead Heath Extension that runs off Hampstead Way & Wildwood Road in the Hampstead Garden Suburb area. (Shame Barnet didn't get more of this area when they where handing out the Borough's) Now i have worked in many client's houses in the Hampstead area for many years & like everything when your working, you just don't get time to pop into these green space's to have a look around. Now this was the 1st time i have every felt guilty about walking. But! I started off my mini walk from Thornton way where a path leads right over to the Hampstead way side of this area. The gravel was a bit unusual in that it was noisy to walk on. Now! Noting this was also on a May Bank holiday Monday & about 6am i felt like i was making the noise of a troop of walkers & this particular path runs down the back of some very nice houses. There is also something else very unusual about this area? & it's the lack of traffic & London background noise that is always in the air. (It was their when i came out of this area) Now this made you feel that you could of been anywhere in the UK, except eight mile,s from the centre of London.
I thought the walk would be just under a mile & turned out to be a very pleasurable 1.8 miles. This is one that i will certainly pop back to & well worth a visit.