Tropical World

If you read my last post you will see that my holiday in York was pretty busy and did not involve much relaxing. However, Arjan, my brothers and I made sure that we did get out to have a little bit of fun here and there.
One of these rare moments of relaxation came when we decided to take a trip to Leeds to visit Roundhay park, or more specifically Tropical World!
This was a favourite of ours as children and seeing as Arjan has been part of the family for 3 years we thought he should experience it too.
It's a bunch of huge green houses that you follow a path through, each with their own environment, the first is a Rainforest swamp full of huge butterflies in all kinds of colours, the next is a paradise of weird and wonderful birds, later there's a desert with meerkats and finches amongst the cacti, basically it's awesome!
It was pretty tricky to get pictures to start with as my camera lens steamed up almost instantly and didn't stop until it had acclimatised to the rather humid 38 degrees, but I got a few.

These butterflies were the most intense shade of indigo-neon blue I've ever seen, but they either wouldn't sit still or wouldn't open there wings! 

It's a fantastic place for kids (and adults!) and I strongly urge anyone in the vicinity of Leeds to go there.