While walking through Richmond, we came along a street of older houses in what seemed like quite a desirable neighborhood. The dominant feature of most of these houses was the preponderance of wisteria on their frontages. Some of the plants were confined to one house while others seemed to span whatever property that they felt like. The purple blooms were most impressive, and it seemed like they were competing to see which house could be more purple than the next. I don’t know how long wisteria blooms for so did we get lucky with our timing, or could we have been there at a wider range of times?
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Some Ted Lasso Tourism
On one of our days in the UK, we made a trip to Richmond. It is over 30 years since I have spent time in Richmond, and it was nice to go there again. A first for Nancy too. We were having lunch with family but got there a little early to walk around. One of the things we wanted to do was check out the area around Richmond Green. This was a location for many of the scenes in the TV series, Ted Lasso. It was on our way anyway, so we stopped to have a look around.
Looking like a tourist is never too appealing and I imagine plenty of people come by because of the show. The pub that they feature apparently has fan memorabilia for the show’s imaginary team. Some of the shops also have “Believe” signs above their doors. TV does a good job of cutting together unrelated spaces, but you can easily recognize some of the places. We did struggle to identify one or two other spots, though. There is some demolition and construction underway now, so I wonder if that took out any bits that were previously used.