dimitris.gr: coolest few days in london

these last few days in london, looking back at the - almost - nine months i have been living here for, must have been the coolest so far. panos, one of my two longest standing friends, and his girlfriend christina were in town. and much as the times have been intense at work, that didn't stop us from roaming all around london and have a great time!

i've only had a couple of visitors with whom i also had a very good time (athena and kostas) but this was beyond expectations by far. we did some of the touristic stuf i hadn't done, went to madame tussauds, to the aquarium, to portobello market and the london eye. we went to shoot pool, drunk all night with the indian gang, pub crawled, walked around the center, piccadilly, green park, leicester square, covent garden, oxford and regent street, had paella and sangria at st. christopher's place, walked around bayswater, camden and basically coverd lots of miles within only 4 days. miraculously, every morning and despite the hangover, i have made it to wake up at 7 and be at work on time.

i think it's one of the nicest times we've spent together with friends. and for me, playing host to the people that are the closest to me, is always a lot of fun. but there's an added point to this all: to some of my closest friends, who haven't managed to visit me as i always met them at their home place, i have always been living a different kind of life. thessaloniki, athens, the army, rotterdam and now london have all been just mere descriptions of me to them and this includes the aiesec years and all my international friends, whom they have never met. my life is more or less like a story to them, as they have no visual image or experience of what it looks like. that makes me a complete alien when i go back home, as i cannot even discuss my good or bad times in a number of occasions. in any case this was the first time that a friend who has known me for 14 years now, gets exposed to my life abroad and my international friends and gets to see how i live here. and it feels absolutely great.

thank you guys for visiting, looking fwd to the next time!