We’ve covered three spots so far, all in Florida, where I grew up and spent my college years. Now we’re moving on to the year 2005, when I graduated and stepped into the world of working for the man, quickly realized it wasn’t for me, got swept off my feet by a blue-eyed Aussie, and soon thereafter packed up all my shit and left the U.S. on a one-way ticket to London.
England – The Cotswolds
- Where you can arrive from London in no time, but then realize you are in the middle of nowhere
- Where there really are bright red phone booths…correction: booth (singular)
- Where the towns have one shop, one post, and two pubs
- Where you have near death experiences while crossing the street and looking the wrong way, for at least the first few weeks you are there
- Where men wear socks up to their knees with dress shorts and vests to go quail hunting
- Where men actually go quail hunting
- Where everything comes with gravy or mayonnaise
- Where dessert is pudding and pudding is custard
- Where you eat things like ” spotted dick” and “bangers and mash”
- Where you drink tea 85 times a day
- Where pasty white Brits run full stride to the beaches as soon as the sun reveals itself (it’s a glorious 3 days of the year)
- Where people say things like “takin’ the piss”, “loo” and “youalright govna”
- Where horse racing accounts for 80% of the occupations: jockey, horse trainer, horse vet, horse owner
- Where pubs are the place to go at all times of day
- Where you better pour Guinness the right way or say goodbye to your job
- Where you can buy a car for 300 pound
- Where you can take road trips from to Bath, Stonehenge, Bristol, Oxford and Brighton
- Where streets are quaint, people are friendly and life is peaceful
- Where you can find the famous pub and restaurant The Hollow Bottom, home to the friendliest Scottish lads in all of England (except for the crazy chef Charlie, he talks wicked fast in a thick Scottish accent and throws plates)
- Where I lived for 5 months
I’ve been to Bath, Stonehenge, Dover, London, Newmarket, and Cambridge and loved them all. Plan on moving somewhere in Western Europe someday and returning to England more than once.
Nice! I would def visit London again, but the rest of England I think I’m good on haha. 🙂