Look at the picture and try to figure out where is it... Have you ever been to the UK? Ok, it's in the UK... If it's a known place? Yes, very famous... Ok, it's London! Well... it's near. See those tall buildings on the top right? That's actually Canary Wharf. Where did a take the photo? Greenwich. Yes, it's near Greenwich's Royal Observatory where the longitude is 0ยบ. It's also the reference for the GMT time zone. Or now often refer to as UTC, Coordinated Universal Time. You know it's 8am where you are, based on your distance to this place. GPS will tell you how far you are from this place to East or West on Earth. Still, most people (like me :) ) would just want to play on the beautiful grass. A reference is something you just need to know where it is to relate to it. It doesn't mean that you have to know how it looks like.
At the first glance it doesn't seem but, if you look closer, it's actually a dam's water reservoir. Me and some friends found this place during a car trip stop on the nearest coffee shop. After the coffee, we walked around a little to stretch our legs and prepare for the rest of the trip. And while we were walking behind some nearby houses, we found this landscape. The place was very nice and we could noticed that it had been equipped for picnics. So nice that we actually stayed there more time than what we initial expected for this stop. The curious thing is that years have passed by and for several times we made similar trips around the same area, but we never found the coffee shop and the hidden landscape again.
