5x5: The Things I Love

28 September 2006

  1. Night buses: There's just something magical about travelling through weird and wonderful parts of London on the night bus - seeing things you wouldn't normally see. It always seems a little unreal (but that might be a combination of tiredness and alcohol).
  2. Having 5 bus routes, 3 tube stations and two mainline stations within 10 minutes of my flat.
  3. Finding secret courtyards or back streets that look nothing like the area they can be found in.
  4. Restaurants of every possible type you could imagine (and a few you might not) within easy reach.
  5. Sitting on the bus or train and overhearing conversations being held in at least 4 different languages, none of which are English.

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I live in Walthamstow and I love it. Definitely a London girl through and through :-)

Debs
1 October 2006

Oooh, yes. Particularly 1, 3 and 5.

A little way down the road from us, yards away from a particularly unpleasant estate and a row of boarded up shops, is a tiny little villagey lane with a cobbled surface, cottages, trees, a half-timbered pub and a wonderfully overgrown graveyard. You can tell that once upon a time it was in open countryside, and you can imagine a little old lady living in one of the cottages who believes it still is.

And apparently there are 32 different languages spoken in the small network of streets around our house.

I love these things.

Although I'm talking about Manchester, not London.

Clare
3 October 2006

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