The main side effect I've been having is insomnia. Sleep is elusive and I'm cranky because of it. So aside from the stress and wanting to SCREAM.. here's what's new:
Last weekend we went to Bury St. Edmunds. It blew Italy out of the water! Italy had its cute little villages, its quaint villas, its vino, but England has a special charm to it. In Italy, people were very quiet and to themselves. They came out to ride their bikes and to walk their children in strollers, but they were elusive. I hardly ever saw an Italian teenager in the town we lived in. We would see the women gardening and the men cutting the overgrown hedges, but rarely did we see them "in their day to day lives". When we went to the market, there were people everywhere, and all of them, just like us, were out to shop and have a good time. This is why England feels more like "home" and not like a place that we are alienated from. Italy was like a photograph, taken years ago, with the people still moving around slowly in it, not realizing that the time has passed them by and that the world has changed. To some, this is an ideal situation, but to the rest of us, the modern ammenities such as Cinemas, mall strips, fast food chains, etc would be too greatly missed. In Bury, it was like a mix of the old and new... there were the photograph in time qualities mixed with the new. Old recipe item foods were sold at stalls but a quick walk towards the center of the mall strip yielded high fashion stores, electronics, and restaurants. It was ideal.
Old:
the stalls:
and the new:
Tomorrow we go to Thetford for their "city lighting" and I plan on spending some pounds on getting some home made British foods. I'm excited to have a good evening and am looking forward to having my first batch of roasted chestnuts.
I'll be sure to post how that went.
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