Thoughts of England ~ just wish I'd been more relaxed
« What to Do? What an academic approach to the London/England leg of my journey! Sitting in an arm-chair at Jo's auntie's home in Cambridge, looking through my first *purchase* in England - a book on all the sights and sounds of London. I was already missing Northern Arizona terribly... but was determined to put my constantly pervasive thoughts behind me. It helped that the weather was actually good!. A rare occurrence in England! I swear it's true, the weather is bloody awful! Maybe I've been spoilt by the mild climate of Perth - or the crisp, clean air we experience almost all year 'round.... but England was grey most of the time, with this constant windy drizzle!
Jo thinks that one day she'd like me to transfer to Cambridge University and we could go and live there for a while.... but how can people live in a place where they so rarely see the sun??
» St Andrews Church, Soham: Jo is from Cambridge - well, Soham to be precise. Saint Andrews Church is so infamously recognisable now, as being in the once quiet, unassuming town where little Jessica Chapman and Holly Wells were murdered by the local school caretaker.
« The Fountain Pub, Soham: The local pub - "The Fountain" sits across the road from St Andrews, and is owned and run by family relatives. Good food, good beer - although I spent the night inebriated on Smirnoff Vodka - and the place I finally had the pleasure of meeting so many of Jo's family and childhood friends. I wish she had been there.... it was in these moments I would steal myself briefly and wish my soul-mate was sharing the sweet flavours with me. Then I'd find another 'relative' had slapped another Smirnoff Ice on the table in front of me and I'd be back into deep conversation about the things Jo got up to as a child. These people were all so accepting of me - and seemed so genuinely pleased that Jo "seems to happy these days" as they would say. As for me, even though I was in a foreign place I'd never seen before, I was finally again around humour I understood - and that understood me. At length - and at long last, I began to relax and enjoy myself - which was a relief from the un-nerving intensity of my more spiritual moments in Arizona.
