Nic Narrates

1. Mind the gap.
2. Chips are crisps and fries are chips.
3. Cabs are not only new looking and urine-free, but roomy and expensive too.
4. Tea at The Savoy is synonymous with All-You-Can-Eat buffet. And worth every penny. Who knew the pianist would be playing the Rocky theme song?
5. McDonald’s is…different–they have chunky chips (see above notation) and something called ‘brown sauce’.
6. Always ask for ice. Then, ask for more.
7. Harrods is like a casino, a labyrinth of rooms that wind you ever deeper into its clutches without any semblance of time or space. I may have blacked out a time or two trying to find my way through the food halls and luxury rooms.
8. Westminster’s history and beauty overwhelmed me to tears.
9. I quite like summer puddings and scones with clotted cream.
10. Pinstripe suits and Windsor knots are curiously ubiquitous.
11. They have their celebrity gossip too, but seem to be caught up by the Paris Hilton drama as much as we. 
12. “Walking” in the Peak District makes absolute perfect sense now. Of course that’s what you go there to do.
13. Cockfosters isn’t just a funny word…it’s a real place; you can take the tube there anyway.
14. London is two cities: The City of London and The City of Westminster.
15. American tourists are embarrassingly easy to spot.
16. Everything is smaller: the font size of menus and billboards, the streets, the rooms and toilets, the cars, the dollar’s worth…
17. You’ll need a coin purse to carry all those coins.
18. There’s serious business to be had in managing London’s “rubbish” problem. The US should start exporting garbage and recycle bins over there in bulk.
19. Their beer is stronger. And better. Or maybe I just didn’t eat frequently enough.
20. That I hate my job as much upon returning as I did when I left.

Cheers!

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