Wow, what a difference. Everything is different. The people look, talk, relate, act and sound different. The sights are completely different – not a thing is the same at all. Getting around, where people live – everything is different, but the biggest and best difference has definitely got to be for the digestive system!!! Food, glorious food!! It is a huge change for anyone going from one country to another. But the biggest change was coming from our lives in Africa to western society.
Sorry to Pete and Amie, friends we stayed with in London, as I was quite a bit spaced out from leaving Uganda and Akanyijuka; it took pretty much my whole time there to start to feel relaxed and actually have good conversations. It was, however, definitely a good idea to have a holiday first before coming home to be confronted with home in Australia. We did actually enjoy our time in London, it was good to be able to see the sights, and a little of how people live there. It actually made sense to me that Uganda was once a colony of England, there were many little things that I thought strange coming from Australia, that now I see actually come from the English way of life.
Anyway, here are a few photos of our stay in London and Paris.
Kathryn with the London Eye:
Kathryn and Amie at Hyde Park:
An interesting building for my Ugandan friends:
St Paul’s Cathedral, London:
A city street shot in Paris:
What they call the Arc de Triomphe:
And some little tower that kept showing up all over the place:
