Monday, July 18, 2005
Over the puddle to the UK & France
London....well as Samuel Johnson said, "When a man is tired of
London, he is tired of life."
I couldn't agree more. I love Paris, NY, and San Francisco for
different reasons, and I don't love London more, but there is something
about London that puts it at the top of my favorite cities.
It may be the organic nature of London.
Paris is planned, New York (Manhattan) is a grid, and undulating San Francisco is incomparably beautiful. Chicago is mighty, Rome is ancient. But London...
London is spaghetti, a coral reef of humanity, a city of unexpected
twists and turns, a 2000 year old aggregate of architecture and
streets, a city that should not be as efficient or easy as it is.
London is perhaps the most fascinating city I have visited. London is always new, or in the midst of revitalizing.
A hodge-podge of everything about cities and humanity thrown together
willy-nilly...yet it works!! It swings like a pendulum do.
Being in London this time round will have special meaning, as I add my silent respect for the strength and resiliency of its people, and as I remember how beloved London is to me.
London, he is tired of life."
I couldn't agree more. I love Paris, NY, and San Francisco for
different reasons, and I don't love London more, but there is something
about London that puts it at the top of my favorite cities.
It may be the organic nature of London.
Paris is planned, New York (Manhattan) is a grid, and undulating San Francisco is incomparably beautiful. Chicago is mighty, Rome is ancient. But London...
London is spaghetti, a coral reef of humanity, a city of unexpected
twists and turns, a 2000 year old aggregate of architecture and
streets, a city that should not be as efficient or easy as it is.
London is perhaps the most fascinating city I have visited. London is always new, or in the midst of revitalizing.
A hodge-podge of everything about cities and humanity thrown together
willy-nilly...yet it works!! It swings like a pendulum do.
Being in London this time round will have special meaning, as I add my silent respect for the strength and resiliency of its people, and as I remember how beloved London is to me.
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