Date: Monday 21st July
Song of the day: Silence - Delerium
When we first arrived in the UK so many things blew me away. On the first day we were here there was the manic tube. Arriving in rush hour to thousands of people not happy with a bag wielding Kiwi ruining their trip to work. That was after the queues at Heathrow which were enormous. We spent our first full day looking at the sites, having lunch in St James Park looking at Buckingham Palace, seeing Bug Ben for the first time. Then there were the crowds on Oxford St on a Saturday afternoon. The shear number of people is hard to imagine when you have come from a place as small as New Zealand.
So its hard to imagine packing up our lives again and moving back. But there are obviously things we have issed about NZ too. It will be great to see family and friends again, and there is all the good food that the UK just doesn't know how to do. But the one thing I will be looking forward to most is the silence. No matter where you go in the UK, there are always always people, everywhere. And in London there is always traffic. You can't get away from it, even in the parks. NZ has an overabundane of quiet. I am sure it will bug me after a while having so few people, but for the first little while it will be cool.
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