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An Italian goes back to London…

LOOKING FOR THE PICTURES? If you’re looking for the photo albums from my trip to London, you can find them here: London album on Facebook London album on Flickr Note that each photo has a short caption explaining what it is about. INTRODUCTION If you’re looking for the photos, you can find them on Flickr or Facebook. They’re not really “works of art”, rather a visual collection of memories. This post, too, is very long for the same reason: I wrote it for myself more than anyone else, so I saw no reason to hold back. If you do want to give this a read… good luck! FOREWORD And so, after three years, I went back to London. Three years of craving and pining and looking for someone to share a room, and an adventure, with. Lots of things happened in the meantime, as may be inferred by my lack of…

Two Italians go to London…

LOOKING FOR THE PICTURES? If you’re looking for the photo albums from my trip to London, you can find them here: London album on Facebook Highgate Cemetery album on Facebook London album on Flickr Highgate Cemetery album on Flickr Complete London collection on Flickr Note that each photo has a short caption explaining what it is about. FOREWORD I am not a traveler, in fact this was effectively my first trip as an adult. I come from a pretty small town of barely fifty thousand souls in central Italy. London always held a great significance to me, for personal reasons which I’m not going to discuss here. Suffice it to say that I visited it when I was a teenager during the summers of 1998 and 1999: we stayed in Egham (Surrey) but we were taken to London and other places nearby several times. My view of London is overly biased,…