The Bannerman Park

In Copenhagen we lived next to Skydebanehaven for more than four years, and with or without kids, it was our haven inside the busy city. With the green space for lying on the grass, benches for my coffee during maternity leave and s great playground once E was big enough to use it. So, looking for a house in St. John's, one of our criteria was: close to a playground, preferably a park.

And we got what we wanted!

Five minutes walk downhill from our house is the Bannerman Park, which is currently being redone but lucky for us, almost finalised! The playground opened literally one week after we moved in, and is one of the best ones in town.

During the winter, there is a skating rink, the Bannerman Loop, which is free, nicely lit and well maintained, with music playing. So naturally we had to get skates! (Still to be tested, so that story will be told later...)

During the summer there is softball, swimming and a splash pool for kids, which I'm looking forward to seeing in action.

Apparently, the park is celebrating 150 years of existence and the renovations have been made thanks to donations, which seems to be the way to do things here. Having lived in countries where the Public Money takes care of projects like this, I'm always astonished by the 'Community initiatives' here, which us in the Nordics could as well learn from. Yes, I know it's a different way of running a state and its public finances, but I still think there might be a blog coming about it, as it was indeed interesting for me to pay the entrance to a museum by bringing a 'non-perishable food item' as I did before Christmas.

Here a small poster about the park:

And a little monkey in winter gear on her way down the scary slide!

(Oh and I should say that it is Public Money, I believe, which keeps The Loop running and in order!)