After seven years of living... «Notes from a Small Island»
i_am_svitlana8 мая 2021After seven years of living in the country in the sort of place where a dead cow draws a crowd, London can seem a bit dazzling. ... And it has more congenial small things - incidental civilities you might call them - than any other city I know: cheery red pillar boxes, drivers who actually stop for you on pedestrian crossing, lovely forgotten churches with wonderful names ..., sudden pockets of quiet like Lincoln's Inn and Red Lion Square, interesting statues of obscure Victorians in togas, pubs, black cabs, double-decker buses, helpful policemen, polite notices, people who will stop to help you when you fall down or drop your shopping, benches everywhere. What other great city would trouble to put blue plaques on houses to let you know what famous person once lived there or warn you to look left or right before stepping off the kerb? I'll tell you. None.
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