Dear Reader,
Is it possible to have jet lag when what you’ve done is scale the UK by train? If so, I’ve got it! Which is why this missive is coming to you a couple of days late.
It was a wrench to leave the beauty of Greenway, but I always release a sigh of relief when I reach London, my home town. Though I love living in Edinburgh now, I’ll always call myself a Londoner. There are certain sights that tell me I’m coming home – the arched iron of Paddington Station, or the gothic spire of St Pancras Renaissance Hotel over the railway station, or the BT Tower popping up on the horizon, or the terracotta planes of the British Library – a thousand things that make up the London skyline for me.
So I was lucky to spend two days on the seventeenth floor of the Mini Shard, otherwise known as the News UK Building, where I was pre-recording interviews about Double or Nothing with podcasts and YouTube channels for release in September. The view up there is heavenly: railway tracks stitching the city together, the London Eye winking in the sun, St Pauls emanating permanence.
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