First Time In Hatfield Where I Had Feel For

Hatfield @ Herfordshire

Introduction of Hatfield: Hatfield is a town and civil parish in Hertfordshire, England in the borough of Welwyn Hatfield. It has a population of 29,616 and is of Saxon origin. Hatfield House, the home of the Marquess of Salisbury, is the nucleus of the old town. From the 1930s when de Havilland opened a factory until the 1990s when British Aerospace closed, Hatfield was associated with aircraft design and manufacture, which employed more people than any other industry. Hatfield was one of the post-war New Towns built around London and has much modernist architecture from the period. The University of Hertfordshire is based there.

Places of Interests: 

• College Lane Campus and de Havilland campus of the University of Hertfordshire.
• Hatfield House (Is where the Tomb Raider and The Batman Begins casted)
• Mill Green Museum and watermill.
• The Galleria.
• Hatfield Business Park, former de Haviland plant, later became Base Systems Hatfield and was used for the filming of Saving Private Ryan(film) and Band of Brothers (TV series).

My visit to Hatfield on the first week was a very unexpected trip I should say. However,  it was truly an amazing experience in Hatfield with my old mate -Yi Ping. She's my primary school mate and we have not seen each other after so long, probably 10 years? I think it counts about that after we left school in Year 2000. Again, this is the power of facebook :) She called up and I was joking to her that I miss rice so much (Fyi, I am a rice bin), and she's being so helpful by offering a few days of overnight at her place in Hatfield. I took her kind offer and I was so happy when I know I am going to see my old friend on the day itself! In the evening, she and her husband - Eric drove over and pick me up at my house, we headed back to their home for homecook dinner and the entire journey took us about 45 minutes. So we blah blah blah in the car by doing some catch up and Eric told me 45 minutes is not consider far if you are driving in England. Hatfield is 20 miles (32 km) to the North of London.

In Hatfield, me x Yi Ping spent almost every day hanging out (except on Friday we stay in and chit chat) at the nearby supermarkets and The Galleria for groceries shopping and some outlets shopping. I did not buy much because Hatfield is a comfy small town and all I wanted to do is to get my daily needs and send them home so I can stuck myself in the house without walking on the street and get strike by the wind while looking for foods. That was a nightmare and I would never ever want to look back.

Lovelocker's sharing: During winter, the sky gets so dark at 4pm. It was last Saturday night when I got back at 6pm (I thought I was still early?) but when I walked out from the tube station, I freaked myself out and started to curse... then started to pray.... LOLs!! Puhhhlease please let me safely reach home. By the way, I started to run when I reached the corner of the street.. :P My brain only gets to fuction at this moment by strucking all sort of spooky ghost images in movies.. Therefore I took a deep breathe... and suddenly I was not racist because I pray to all gods. LOLs

The 5 days x 4 nights of hospitality at Yi Ping's house was very comfortable yet a good enjoyment. She has a very lovely house which she and Eric spent a lot of time for the selection x renovation before it became such a multi-functional house. I was lucky enough to have enjoyed their hardworks :) Besides that, Yi Ping's cooking has been missed after I returned to London, especially her corn soup x taiwan-style beef mee hoon x hot & spicy steamboat. Yumyyummmy.... Sincerely thanks to the husband and wife. I look forward to meet them and their baby-boy soooooon! :x

Taken Outside of the House

Lunch on Saturday

Lunch @ Harvester

Outdoors Table

So Hatfield has reserved my first week in England so I am thinking where is next? London is fascinating, indeed a metropolitan city with its unique history. Sometimes, a city girl do wish to revel out of the busy city. People say there is a place called ''City of Masks'' and described as ''Undoubtedly the Most Beautiful City built by man''. Woooooooah....Being one of Europe's most romantic cities, how can I not paint my story in this city of canals? Is time to work hard and stretch myself for my studies, later reward myself a holiday in Italy -  一大粒 ! Hahahaaahaa

xoxo, aza aza fighting!! See you panda eyes :)