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A stranger in town

People often ask ‘do you miss London’, the truth is no.    But I do miss my friends, I miss going to the pub, it being busy, I miss the boutique shops and I miss good steak and chips.    That’s why visiting is the very best cure for a little London Saudade (a Portuguese word which they say has no translation into English, but here is an attempt)   http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Saudade Being a tourist in your old town is great and with the amount of development going in in Old London Town at the moment I felt like a stranger in town (well a stranger that knew the short cut into Covent Garden at least).     When I visited London recently my family decided to do a Big London Bus Tour.  It was a great way to see the sites, to avoid the walk around town in the very warm spring sunshine and spend some time with my family.   The City is changing out of all recognition, the building work has gone off the scale.  It used to be the Gerkin was the biggest thing in the sky, but now we hav