remember that line from Forrest Gump? i love that film.
But he was talking about Washington and I am talking about London. I should imagine they are not that similar. But this week I have travelled through London a couple of times and to be honest with you I found myself really not liking it that much. My observations of it are that it is dirty, not in a litter on the street kind of way (although im sure that is there) but in a 'there is too many people breathing the same air, in the same small space and it feels kind of icky.' I am amazed how people can be so close in London and yet so distant. The people on the tube standing inches apart well into the zone of acceptable personal space and yet they act like each other is not there.
When the train pulls into Charing Cross I noticed all the flats and high rises that there are. It reminded me of those stacks of hamster and mouse cages that there are in pet shops. Everyone crammed into their own tiny over-priced box, all living on top of each other but pretending they don't. Its a city that is so easy to get lost in, not just geographically which i guess suits some people but that desolate feeling of being a nobody really hits you when you are surrounding by so many people existing so individually.
Im not trying to be negative about London, I know people love it so passionately and marvel at all that it has to offer and that is cool. London is awesome, over populated, over priced and ridiculously on the cutting edge and i guess those factors alone mean you lose any ability to be personable…..
that just what i was thinking…
oh I’m with you there. everytime I get all ‘ we should go to London’-ish we go and I hate most of it. its just not that friendly or appealing is it? shame but true.
Ooooo Sarah, I will have to disagree. I LOVE London – born and bred in South (pronounced ‘Saaf”) London – every time I go back i wish I lived there still!! I only left because Alan REFUSED to live there when we got married… It is SO FULL of life, not all of it good – but 24/7 there is something goin’ on – you can buy anything any hour day or night – both extremes of wealth living in, sometimes, close proximity – such fantastic architecture, such history, such culture,such center-of-the-universe- ness.. love it love it love it x