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27 September
Grit, chaos and curry - I'm in London
This isn't what I expected.
I'm in the land of the Queen, the mother country, Shakespeare, Chaucer, Dickens. I expected London to feel completely romantic -- but it really feels more like New York -- which, to a Jersey girl, ain't all that.
London is not the city I imagined in my childhood.
Where is the land of Mary Poppins? Or, the scenes from my favorite childhood book, "A Little Princess?"
So much for that.
But, I guess it's not exactly New York.
The cabs all look like black Fords from the 1920's, instead of yellow. And they don't honk nearly as much.
New York doesn't have double-decker busses, and the subway there is easier to figure out. London's is a maze. And don't get me started on the streets. Forget the grid system that U.S. cities use.
London is about 1,500 years older than New York (no kidding) and the original roads were built by the Romans. The Roman roads are the only ones that are straight. The rest wind and twist and change names at random.
But perhaps the best difference is in the excellent Indian restaurants. Those, and the British accents.
I still haven't gotten over them.
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