Leaving London . . .

I am leaving London on a 7 am train to Paris to start my Spring Break. I'm going to be taking the Chunnel, which is a tunnel that goes under the English Channel. It's a three hour ride, which will be the first of many long train rides across Europe in the next week. I'm sad to leave London, It feels like we were just settling in and now we have to up root and get going again. Not that I'm complaining about going to Paris, cause I'm not.... I just wish I didn't have to take my whole -life in a suitcase with me. I really have had such a wonderful time here and England looks so beautiful in the spring, flowers have started to pop up everywhere.



While I'll miss England in the spring I'm on to newer things! The past week has been crazy trying to get everything ready to go. I had to plan Spring Break, which ended up being 5 nights in Paris and 2 nights in Lausanne Switzerland and then I'm taking an overnight train to Florence to start the other half of my program!



These past two months felt like a day and forever at once. Earls Court Road has become my street and I'm going to miss the familiarities of it. The news stand outside the tube station with it's little white dog that sleeps on the stacks of the Daily. The flower cart that appears at the corner with wonderful aromas every afternoon. The pubs, being able to order a pint and sit and walk across the street to go home.



One of the best things about London, well probably Great Britain, is that when you order tea in a cafe you get a whole tea service. Tea pot, tea cup, cream, sugar and tea spoon. The tea pot holds enough water for at least 2 and a half cups of tea. That would never happen in the States! We are sadly devoid of a tea culture, I think we took that Boston Tea Party attitude a little too far....



I'm going to miss being surrounded by history, it's so easy to get used to and I'm going to note it's absence. But I'll soon have new history to look at. Well I should catch some Zs or zeds as they would say here in Britain (they pronounce the letter z as zed).

Cheers!