1. Heated towel racks
2. Peanut butter on oreos. Yeah, you can get them at home, but the peanut butter here has something special ( :
3. The THEATER!!!
4. This restaurant called "Itsu" that has amazing, HUGE, scalding hot noodle soup bowls with vegetarian dumplings in a spicy, zesty lemongrass broth for only 4 pounds and 99p.
5. The money is pretty here
6. The palaces
7. The nightlife. It's neverending (maybe a bad thing as well as good)
8. The accents. Not Just British ones. SO many people from all around the world live here. It's really fascinating
9. Packs of cigarettes are required to have huge stickers on them that say things like "smoking kills" and "smoking is proven to cause lung cancer". So, they're making an effort. (Downside is, people still smoke a ton. I feel like a smoker sometimes just by proximity.)
10. The weather :D I know I may become disenchanted, but I love the weather so far. It can be frigid, but still have clear skies.
11. The people are really very friendly for the most part
12. I am so impressed by the way public services are run here. The parks and recreation, the arts, public transit. The museums are all FREE. You have to pay a fee often to see featured exhibits, but other than that, it's free. Students have lowered rates at theaters because the British government feels that it is important for young people to be exposed to the arts. And the tube is just phenomenal....well....sometimes, the train stops for minutes at a time in the tunnels and I swear to myself that I will never get on it again, but it really does run very smoothly and they make it almost condescendingly easy for everyone to get from place to place, above ground or below.
I haven't been doing too much in the way of tourism, so I plan to get out this week and weekend and see much more! I have a Lot of homework, which is keeping me quite busy.
Love to you all at home!
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