In a time of disappointments with self, I would often think “oh, how it’ll be nice to become a little girl” and forget all the negativity that kids don’t normally notice around them…but isn’t it just a way of hiding head in the sand? The whole meaning of life should be – to learn to face your challenges and to win them over…yeah, right…but still in the battles of life it’ll be nice to have a few breaks…recess from reality…hmmm…just a thought, created from my weekend trip to the Lilliputian Land…it was great fun and fantastic day out. There is a town named Beaconsfield. And in this town there is…another one, named Beaconscot. Just like a Russian doll, Matreshka – a smaller one inside a bigger one…
It is a world-famous attraction, and was the first model village in the world. It covers approximately one and a half acres. The model village began as a hobby for Roland Callingham, a London accountant, who in the mid-1920s bought a field, dug a pond in it and built few model houses, to which his friend added a model railway. The "village" actually consists of several small towns and villages, set in a beautiful miniature 1930's English landscape, complete with lakes, rivers, farms, fields, a huge railway system, and a population of several thousand tiny residents!
It is a fantastic place! The place where you can feel like a Gulliver for real. And be amazed of the models so skilfully done, that sometimes it seems like when the model train stops at the model station, real people would board it and even perhaps you’ll be one of them…[~oh, I wish I’d be one of them! Eat one side of a mushroom and become tiny enough to be a guest in this happy little town…;-)] Walk the Town Square, listen to the speech of a Mayor, watch polo game or play with kids on a school yard. You can visit Town fair and ride a carousel, or attend the parade in a castle, or listen to the orchestra playing on a pier…you can do so much in there! Even help a fire-fighter’s tiny crew to bring down a flame on the roof of one of the thatched building or be an apprentice of a blacksmith or coal miners…fishermen and solders, sportsmen and hunters, kids, families, pets, zoo…you name it – Beaconscot has it all!
We certainly had fun yesterday, walking the Lilliputian Land!
