ON THE MOVE AGAIN
So I have been in London now for six days and I am loving it, spending great time with friends catching up.

Today I am on the road again off to another friend’s house for another two days. I am starting to feel a little bit ‘oh, here we go again, squeeze like crazy all my stuff into my bag, strap it to my back and off again–just to do it all again in two more days. I am curious to see how I feel at the end of the week as in two days I will visit my friends Matt and Emma who I will stay with for four days in total which I feel will be a better amount of time to stay in one location than just two days. I remember the bits in Long Way Down where Charlie and Ewan talk about always feeling like they were on the go and there was no time to just relax into a certain location and explore what it had to offer. I think when we go on our global travel we should make a general rule that we don’t stay anywhere for less than say four or five days – unless say we are at danger or the King of a country invites us to stay at the palace for longer – we’ll have to wait and see I guess.

CHIILING IN THE GARDEN (well kind of)
The rest of the day was chilled. I hung out with my pal Liz and her two kids in her garden. What’s with these five year olds wanting me to run and race and get exercise – easy now!! Most of our friends have kids older than my daughter so it was fun to see what type of things my daughter may be up to when she is 4 years old.

PUB QUIZ AND CRISPS
After Liz’s husband came home he cooked up an amazing Indian meal (so so so good). After that Liz and I popped to the pub for a couple of pints (oh well, there goes another day without drinking any booze).  The pub was having a pub quiz. It had me miss living in England even more than I do already. Not because I am any good at pub quizzes (I am actually terrible) but the idea of friends going to the pub to bond, spend time together and to participate in something together I feel is missing in Vancouver. Maybe it’s not, I will have to look into this when I return. While we were there I enjoyed one of England’s best nutritional treats – a pack of crisps. Actually I had three. Crisps (Chips in Canada) have like everywhere else become all grown up. No longer do you just get Salt and Vinegar, they are now Sea Salt and Basalmic Vinegar, or Crushed Indian Black Pepper. Come on, just give me the simple version please (bloody Marketing and design people) – that said, they do taste rather wonderful – hence the three packets.

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