New Beginnings

New Beginnings -

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"What do you want?" The lady asks me in her English accent.

"Iced green tea," I reply, unimpressed by her accent, she unimpressed by my.

We can be together foreigners, but nothing feels really strange about us.

I grab my drink and make his head out the door, my way back into the busy streets of London.

I'm a little lost, but not worried. I am, after all, in the land that invented my language.

I see a few street signs, ask some directions, and I'm on my way.

There is no real confusion. There is no point gets lost.

I make my way to the London Underground, where I sit still, looking at the stoic faces in front of me.

do not talk to the London Underground.

Today is my last day in London, and I speak in World Travel Mart Travel blogging.

Twenty-four hours from now, I'll touch down in Hong Kong.

, the familiar will be replaced by the unfamiliar.

after six months in Europe, I will go eventually.

There has been simply to be here. For course.

I move almost effortlessly between countries.

I know how to make myself understood, even for those who speak limited English.

I discuss the Greek bailout as they affect me directly.

I get Europe.

There is me.

I look at those faces on the tube again.

Soon they will be gone. Replaced by a culture that I do not know. A people I have never experienced.

Soon I'll be back walking unfamiliar streets, an unknown language to find out and negotiations in unfamiliar markets.

I will meander down dim streets lined with street vendors, as I take in the smell of new spices, soups and dishes.

me My stomach will pull in different directions.

I will ask if the taxi driver give me really a good price.

I will marvel at the unknown.

may be

Hong Kong no undiscovered spot.

It is can not even be half undetected.

The streets were thousands travelers before me.

, it has been written about the hundreds of writers better than me.

But it will be different is been traversed.

And there will be new.

And it is exactly what I need.

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