Day 25: These are a few of my favorite things

Here are the best things about London thus far:

• Chocolate Digestives- actually all British junk food and candy is absolutly amazing. I especially like the chocolate bars with cadbury creme egg filling.
• All the green space and beautiful squares where people hang out, read, and eat their lunch. Plus the fact that there are no leash laws in London so cute dogs frolic freely in the park
• The accents ;-)
• The fact that everything, the bus system, the trains, the underground, are computerized so you never have to talk to a human being ever.
• * The sensational headlines on the newspapers, such as these which are advertising for a television movie about the assasination of George Bush. Seriously could you imagine a newspaper in American printing a front page like that? Also the celebrity gossip magazines and the fact that when you buy cosmo or vogue you get a free gift, like an umbrella or a hand bag
• Reading fantastic books (like Great Expectations) mere blocks from where they were written
• the fact there are so many young people here from soooo many different countries. Even living in DC I never saw diversity such as this
• The weather. Up til now I've been super lucky with fantastic warm weather. I didn't even need a jacket to go outside today which I think is pretty unusual for October in London. They just had one of the warmest September's on record, it seems I do bring the sunshine wherever I go. Even when it rains it is still fantastic because it is London. Today I woke up to my first sighting of London Fog. Unfortunatly it didn't turn out that great because it was out my window and because, well because it is fog and fog doesn't photograph very well apparently. By the time I left the flat at noon the fog had cleared and turned into a bright sunshiney day. Like I said, I love the weather!

So that is all for now, I could go on. Maybe one day I will write a post about the things I do not like about London. I can certainly think of some (the UCL library, the fact that everything closes before midnight), but being an optimist I will just stick to loving London for now.

Coming up soon: Dover, and next weekend, Brussels and Amsterdam!