It had been a long time since we city dwellers had a taste of peace...something I miss a lot about living in England. Recently in Vietnam's Mai Chau valley, the smell of real night air, the breeze, and the stillness hit like a ton of bricks and took me back to summer evenings in the garden, everyone over for tai chi, meditation, tea and philosophical banter. How life's journey ends us up in the most fantastic places, for by the year's end I would have set foot in France, Monte Carlo, England, Hong Kong, China, Macau, Vietnam, Bali and Nepal, with very likely a summer foray into the jungles of Malaysia in search of white water rapids.
Life's a long term sentence to work with some returns to freedom in between - or is it the other way round?
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Very well put, I must say. I should make a list of places I've been to this year... and want to go to as well.
...the 'and want to list' is the secretizing bit! Must do it, it's your birthright!
I want to go to Leyton this year, I hear the blackbirds pub on the high road is doing bargain pork scratchings and a free beer mat...
After that....Maybe Neasden.
I quite fancied Neasden, went to University there when I grew up! The Neasden Airport extension was still being built last time we looked, so we went to Ongar instead. Oh well maybe next summer hols with the kids.
(my aunt went to Ongar University, she became the Principal! Nice sandy beaches there, I recommend it)
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