Londontown
My fascination and semi-obsessive relationship with London began almost as an accident. I was approaching the end of my senior year in high school and a friend of mine told me his father was taking a group of college students on a Study Abroad in London for the upcoming summer term and fall semester. There were some open spots that they were trying to fill and then the fated question, �??Do you want to come with us?�?�
With parents willing to foot the bill, I found myself on a trans-atlantic flight about three weeks after my high school graduation, with plans to study and live in London for 5 months, until the early part of December that year. Other than a few days or a week at a time, it was by far the longest time away from home that I had ever spent by myself. Fortunately, I wasn�??t the only person from my group of friends that signed on, so my high school experience, extended in some ways to a grand tour of London and later the rest of Europe.
I’m sure I will have opportunity to reminisce more about that later, but for now let it suffice to say that this year marks twenty years since I first visited and lived in London and I yearn for it now more than I ever did living there. This entry marks the start of a new category on this blog and is a place for me to collect all things London that interest me. A catalog of experiences, books, movies, plays, shows and anything else related to London.
