Richmond Park
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Are you an overseas qualified healthcare professional who is looking to train to be licensed to practice in the UK? Or are you overseas qualified but living here in the UK?
Training with IELTS Medical is enjoyable, effective and thorough and we have extremely high first-time pass rates of 97%. When you join IELTS Medical for training, you are in great hands and we can guide you through to that first time pass you’re chasing.
Whilst you should be confident going into training at IELTS Medical, its important to be prepared. By this we mean be prepared for the challenge of training, it will be difficult at times so its important to be mentally prepared.
A good way to de stress whilst in the process of training is to take walks in and around London, go shopping or go out for some dinner among other activities. This can really help with relaxation, enabling you to return to training the next day with a re energised mindset.
Richmond Park, in the borough of Richmond, West London is the largest of London’s royal parks. It was created in the 17th century by King Charles 1st and originally was a deer park, now it’s a national nature reserve home to a wide variety of British wildlife and plants and a site of special scientific interest. The park also contains a grade 1 listed building, The White Lodge. The outer wall of the park and 10 other buildings in the park are grade 2 listed due to their historical significance, these buildings are definitely worth viewing especially for people not native to the UK.
Richmond Park is the most visited royal park outside of Central London with over 4 million visits each year. Common activities performed at the park include cycling, fishing, dog walking and nature watching. Visiting this park is a great way to get away from the noise and high pace of life in London with the park being an amazing 2,360 acres you really feel the sense of distance from central London. For comparison, central park in New York City is 843 acres!
The park is located in Richmond, but due to its huge size it borders Kingston on Thames, Roehampton and Twickenham. To get to Richmond Park from Paddington station (5 minutes’ walk from our training centre and accommodation) will take around 1 hour by public transport.
The journey:
· Enter Paddington Underground Station (W2 6AA)
· Board a District Line train towards Wimbledon
· Travel 8 stops and exit the train at Putney Bridge
· Cross the road to Putney Bridge bus station
· Board the number 85 bus service towards Kingston
· Travel 18 stops and get off the bus at Robin Hood Lane (stop P)
· Short walk towards Richmond Park
We hope this blog helps our learners who are looking to find something to do in their free time whilst going through training with IELTS Medical, exploring Richmond Park is a fun way to escape the hustle and bustle of central London for a few hours.
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