2 Million Dollar Bills

Life in London is pure chaos for me; I find it so annoying, that it is almost impossible to find a quiet beauty spot, without throngs of people. It’s a mad, crazy, unforgiving, soulless city where good manners don’t seem to exist. I use to enjoy my periodic 4 or 5 short visits to London every year to visit family, but now that I have being living here for almost 4 weeks, it has made me see the other side of the city. All I can say is being a tourist in London is fun, but living here and knowing I cant go back to Scotland to escape is hell.

When I was back home in Aberdeen, if I ever needed to have a relaxing wee break, I would head down to the beach and walk along the promenade or go to Balmedie beach and walk along the miles of golden sands. What I would give to head down to either the River Don or the River Dee in Aberdeen and enjoy the natural beauty. All those great places were within a 5 - 20 minute walk or drive from my front door.

Being able to jump in my car or walk to my favourite chill out places was something that I took for granted, and now that I cant do it, I appreciate them even more. During my many trips to my local beaches and rivers, they helped me to spawn numerous business ideas and provided the spark for articles for my blogs. Looking back it was most certainly therapeutic, and helped to keep my mind calm.

If I want to go anywhere in London I have to spend for ever taking buses and tubes to reach my destination, all the happy smiling faces that you encounter on your travels is a joy to behold, meaning if you ever see any, it’s a miracle!

Also good manners are in short supply, I was at Heathrow the other day, meeting a business associate, we decided to take the bus to her hotel. We were about 3 rd from the front of the queue, and soon as the bus arrived it became like a rugby scrum, pure chaos. We almost had to beat people back; they were in such a panic to get on the bus.

The funniest thing about it was that everyone got on, and there were still some spare seats! Another thing that I couldn’t help but notice, was that 90% of the rugby scrum bus queue, were foreign, Indian, Eastern European, Middle Eastern, Russian, etc. I get the impression that these guys come from countries where good manners doesn’t exist.

London may be a wee bit warmer than I’m use to in Scotland, but it seems to be just as wet, does it ever stop raining here? The air sure as hell doesn’t smell as fresh as back home, I have never suffered from hay fever in my life, until I got here, and the tap water is the most disgusting water I have ever tasted in my life, it isn’t drinkable. Another thing which I find funny is all those kids hanging around on the streets, trying their best to look mean and menacing, and graffiti seems to be a huge art form in London, those guys are brainless fools, I meant to say really talented artists!

Even for all its bad points London still has a lot to offer visitors to the city, I think I may have to try and do some touristy things, during the 4 weeks that I still have left here, before I head off to start a wonderful new life in the Caribbean. Maybe that will help me to reignite the spark that has faded a wee bit since I got here.

I have downloaded some pictures of Crane Beach, Bottom Bay, Foul Point and Bath Beach in Barbados and pinned them to my wall, I can feel the inspiration oozing back. It wont be long until I’m heading to these beautiful, places when I’m in the need of some rest and relaxation in beautiful surroundings.

Here is a great article from the travelers stories blog which, prettty much sums up what I love about Barbados Barbados My Place in the Sun, The Best that the Caribbean Has to Offer

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