London definitely is...better than all the rest. I made it. I'm here. And tomorrow I will be settled into my flat. But for now, I'm enjoying staying in a luxury hotel on Park Lane and realizing yet again why I love this city. After the concierge loaded my room full of my four suitcases (hehe), I really couldn't move around, so I decided some fresh air and a walk would be good. I walked the mile from the hotel ino Picadilly Circus and it was just as I expected it to be...maybe even better.
There is nowhere like London...and I've truly seen my share of the world. There is nothing like it - where you walk down busy crowded streets, lined with huge gothic buildings of ridiculous proportion dating back to a year that seems almost fantastical, while there's a Starbucks on every block, a red Crown phone booth on every corner, and literally out of nowhere, you're left gazing at a huge Itailian-inspired piazza leading the way to the Royal Academy of Arts museum. It's a complete contradiction everywhere you look and it's wonderful. City parks in the middle of what feels like Times Square, double decker buses, and corner markets and grocery stores. It's perfectly London.
No snowflakes on the streets - rather Old Bond street has ginormous dragonflies lit up and hanging across the streets, Oxford Street has huge lit up wrapped presents, and in Picadilly, there are stars. It's lovely.
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