So I'm back in London for two days before heading out to Greece...
I never consider myself a city-slicker, but you can't manage my joy when I arrived at Liverpool Street Station last night with the hustle-bustle of the commuters. How I have missed city life. I feel like I have been cooped up in a small town (of Norwich) for three months now, walking to and from class and around the shopping center those handful of times.
An odd moment happened yesterday. While on the tube, my music player skipped to Regina Spektor's Blue Lips and suddenly I remembered that the last time I heard the song was on the MTR in Hong Kong, probably taking the hour ride home from my grandmother's. And now, I was on the tube in London, headed to Christina's. Made me all nostalgic for Hong Kong; how wish I was visiting my grandmother's instead...
Anyway, I have to head out exchange some money before heading to Athens tomorrow morning. Ahh, I'm travelling again, just when I started getting used to the stationary life again. 12 days, 3 cities, Greece.
Location: London, England
Song Playing: For Emma by Bon Iver
Countdown to Home: Exactly Two Months. Motherfuckin' Hell Yes.
7.3.10
Cambridge
Ahh! Cambridge has won me over! Perfect mix of cutesy quaintness and college town, really meaning ethnic cuisine at a cheap price). For a day trip, to get out of Norwich, we ventured on the National Express train a hour out to Cambridge. It's probably every Saturday, but the city centre was bustling. With hefty, old couples and Asian tourists snapping pictures of everything in sight, student travelling in cliques, wearing their cardigans and sweater vests... The funny part was seeing Cambridge students, I'm assuming, asking around with laminated flyers of punting prices and deals. Usually you encounter those 'tourist traps' in Beijing or Rome, where sleazy, middle aged men with facial hair, try to pull you into a hour-long, exclusive tour, but this time, it were well-dressed Cambridge students, spotting tourists with cameras hanging from their necks, if they'd be interested in a 'winter punting deal.'
Cambridge was beautiful. (see below)
Location: Norwich, England
Song Playing: Flume by Bon Iver
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