As I took the tube to central London yesterday, a little girl and her dad sat across from me. When we got to Stratford, he pointed out the construction works for the new Westfield.
"Do you see that? That is going to be an incredible shopping centre..."
The little girl responded in a high, childish voice, "Really? Surely it can't be better than Harrods!"
I tried to hid my chuckle. She looked about eight years old, and I found it so funny that she clearly has already formed an opinion of Harrod's as THE standard of shopping.
A good friend of ours left London yesterday. A few of us were able to sit and have a last coffee and chat with Jasmin before she left.
London is a very transient city. I've only been here two and half years and in that time, I've already said goodbye to many friends who have moved on to somewhere else. Perhaps some of it is because many of my friends are still single and students. Regardless, it is one of the more difficult sides of living in London. But I appreciated Jasmin's attitude as she left. As we hugged goodbye, her comment was, "See you later," rather than "Goodbye." I like the sound of that!
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