Farewell London

So, we've officially crossed the Atlantic and unpacked our bags in my parents house where we'll be for the next 4 or 5 weeks before we move on to Atlanta.

I love my hometown, and  I will always have a connection to Savannah that you can only feel with a place you were born and raised but I have a little hole in my heart for London.

I mentioned before that it took me a while to get used to life in the big city, and even had the occasional 'I'm-going-home-I-hate-this-place' moments but once I found my way, I fell in love. I started as the Southern girl who smiled at everyone and always waved at my neighbors, no doubt making more than a few people think I was 'special' and ended as the hardened city slicker who politely avoided eye contact on public transportation and grumpily shouted at tourists who stood on the left side of the escalator.

London is like no other city I've been to, it is bursting with history set along side an ever expanding modern mecca. An ancient Tower, where some of the worlds most powerful rulers lead and some of them died, proudly stands across the river from a building made of glass where the Mayor of London runs the city. You can't walk down a street without hearing 10 different languages and being different is embraced, not ridiculed. Fashion is life in the coolest parts of London, and although I tried my hardest, the fashion scene left me in the dust, but it was still fun to try.

In the 4 years I was there, I never owned a car and only drove once in an ill fated trip down a country road that left Mark clinging to the door handle and screaming like a small and very scared girl. We walked everywhere, and I loved it. 

About a year ago I got the opportunity to work for a London ad agency. A very good friend we met on the beaches of Thailand helped me get my foot in the door and I couldn't be more grateful, it was an amazing experience. I worked on a major fast food brand account and learned so much about the industry, the good the bad and the ugly. We had the super swanky office in the poshest part of London and I met some life long friends. 

Of course, Mark's family lives right outside of the city so we will visit often, but there's nothing like being a Londoner.

London according to my iPhone:

High Tea for my baby shower

 

 

My going away celebration at work

 

Jubilee Oxford Street

 

View from the top of the Gherkin

 

Juls and Mark 

 

Work goodbye gifts

 

One of my favorite people in England

 

Sloane Avenue dahhling

 

Handmade pottery bunting my lovely coworker

 

The Gherkin

 

Julias drum solo in the Soho hotel

 

Mind the Gap

 

Carnaby Street

 

Working hard

 

Jade

 

Creative development at work..

 

Brick Lane curry

Now, I'm off to the beach