Saturday I, Kiley, Kate, Hannah, and Jooson went to Hampstead Village. It was a nice little village to explore. We arrived and walked around the neighborhoods. It was quite a workout going up and down the hills. We went into an art shop and a nice shop full of books, cards, clothes, and house decorations. It was very calm and not as big or busy as Russell Square.
We went to a church on Church Row that was really beautiful inside. It was very old and historic with certain stones in the floor that had people's carved names. An old man in the church started talking to us and said that sometimes at night when he's in the storage room he hears the sound of calico like the clothes people used wear in Victorian times. He thinks that it's the ghosts in the church, but that they don't scare him, that they make him feel peaceful. After we left however, Kate mentioned that they didn't wear calico in Victorian times and that the old man didn't know what he was talking about, which was funny. So I don't know if he was being honest or if he just imagined he heard the sound. I think he probably just thought he heard something.
We also went to the graveyard beside the church. It was nice and calm. You could hear the birds chirping and at strange as it sounds, it all felt peaceful instead of creepy how you'd imagine a graveyard to be. The dates on the headstones were extremely old.
We walked down the hill after the graveyard and just continued to walk around. We explored a bit more and took different paths. We walked a lot and overall it was a nice way to pass the day, exploring new parts of London.
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