Honey I’m Home
Over the last 24hrs I have I walked a couple of New Zealanders from Commercial St down Brick Lane, into Vibe bar for a quick half, to the Jewish Deli that is always open for a bagel (or baigel). To Liverpool St via Spitalfields market, a tube to Old St (for the sake of it) a walk back from Old St via a few art shops, along Shoreditch High St. Then we got a taxi to Speakers’ Corner, around Hyde Park, up Oxford St, into a million shops, via that Banksy thing on Newman St so Amber could take a photo, through Soho, around into Bloomsbury. We still need to visit a few more areas, and go back for what we missed in the ones we wandered through.
Along the way we stopped to patronize (or simply take note of) dozens of galleries, awesome pubs, restaurants, venues, shops, theatres, bookshops, boutiques, architectural landmarks and more than a few attractive people.
Over the course of this trip I’ve come to realize that a lot of other cities in the UK are beautiful, rich in history and bursting with cultural gems and must-do experiences. Even more than I imagined.
Then I came back to London and remembered why it’s the greatest city in the world. Even after I’ve travelled though all of these incredible places, experienced such memorable things, I arrived back in London, a city I’ve already seen- a city I’ve spent years exploring and felt excited, childlike. Sure my friends live here, a lot of my memories are set in the bizzare Greater London towns around here, I grew up on trips to Camden market to buy tat and dodgy records… but in the context of this trip it felt even more special.
Allow me to torture a metaphor. Imagine introducing a friend that you met at secondary school to some of your new friends and then watching them charm the pants off of them. You think ‘Wow.. I was right for liking this person. And I’m so glad I got in on the ground floor, here.’
I’m completely in love. I already knew this. But this is like dressing up and going out for our anniversary.
Hi London,
I went up and saw Edinburgh this week. She’s a really cool city, we had a good time. But listen, there’s only one place in my heart and you prove time and again that you’re the only one that can fill it. You’ve given me so much over the years. I’m glad we’re together again like this.
Love always,
P
P.S. Nothing.. y’know… ‘Happened’
Welcome to Alternative Albion
Welcome aboard the Alt Albion UK tour. You’ll be travelling to the heart of creative Britain, with unfiltered access to the underground, the world-famous and the undiscovered.
