Not quite the end of the road

As most of you know, we had considered staying in London in the medium-term, but for various reasons that's not going to happen. So I am officially announcing my relatively imminent arrival back in Melbourne - in late January 2010.

Instead of the end of the road, London became a 10 day stopover on the way to somewhere else. We were hosted by my lovely friends Katie and Jay (that's two separate households), which was great both financially and socially. The time went by so quicky that I didn't manage to catch up with everyone I wanted to (you know who you are, sorry about that!). Instead, I managed to get a really cheap flight to Israel and am now spending the time here I was planning to spend in London. I will meet Tim in Barcelona, from where we will travel Spain and Morocco.

My impressions of London... as a city goes, I think it's hard to beat for the sheer amount of things going on. There seem to be endless concerts, plays, musicals etc to see, activities you can do, clubs you can join, places where you can eat, cheap airlines you can fly with. But it's so all-encompassing! I think am too used to the suburban existence, where on the weekends you feel like you have escaped the city. There seems to be no escaping London. Does anyone else feel like that?