London
After having spent so much time in some great European cities during my sabbatical, I found myself viewing London differently this past visit than in earlier trips there. I kept looking for the heart of the city, the key that would help me unlock and understand it.
I finally realized that, at least to this outsider, London is not a city; it is many cities. I know that all big cities inevitably are, but to me London is especially so and more so than any other I've visited.
I quite like that.
I have the sense that if I moved to London for a year and spent eight hours a day, every day, walking different neighborhoods, I would still have only the merest glimmer of a sense of this wonderful, huge city.
I can't wait to go back.
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"The man who is tired of London is tired of life."
Samuel Johnson
And, go back you should. I eagerly await the writings that come out of your travel experiences.
I definitely will be back for the WorldCon in London.
Johnson knew whereof he spoke.
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