London is a fast moving place. People from all over the world come here for a slice of this ancient place.
They become part of it and then move on.
The city stands and lets the world swim past, like so many before them.
Travel starts in the mind - Warming up as its cooling down... September 30th 2008 A journey of a thousand miles starts with one footstep? Wrong!
The journey starts long before the plane taxis down the runway with its doors crossed-checked and ready for take off.
Long before the bag is packed, unpacked and repacked lighter.
Long before the credit card details are carefully typed into a flimsy website promising a flight cheaper than anyone else.
Long before maps are poured ov ... read more
Europe » United Kingdom » England » Greater London » London City Great Britain, the dominant industrial and maritime power of the 19th century, played a leading role in developing parliamentary democracy and in advancing literature and science. At its zenith, the British Empire stretched over one-fourth of the ear... ... read more
i never meant to go travelling, I just went. You start moving and can't stop, and when you do the inertia swells in your head like sea until the tides take you off again.
I'm loving reading other peoples stories on travelblog and find it a really amazing place to research where i want to go in future, as well as just hearing normal peoples lives, away from the filtered and edited rubbish we are fed by the tourism industry and the cliched 'travel' sections of Sunday newspapers.
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