I ♥ Cities

In the morning the city
Spreads its wings
Making a song
In stone that sings.

In the evening the city
Goes to bed
Hanging lights
About its head.
-Langston Hughes

It's so easy to let you mind get lost in a city. As you wonder through the streets, taking in every sight, smell, noise and feeling... it would be easy to think you were immersed inside your own 4D movie!

Have you ever had that feeling? Where you are just walking along the street with your IPod in, minding your own business, and the suddenly, an amazing song comes on and you suddenly feel like you are the lead role in a movie? That’s the feeling I get every time I'm walking through one of my favourite cities.                            

                                                             

From the way I'm talking here you would think that I have travelled half the world!!! Unfortunately that is not so, although one day I would love to!!! Who wouldn’t???

However, I do have some weird fascination with cities, as you may be able to tell by the background on my blog. I have a full list of places I would love to visit! Not all of them are cities, but the places I am most interested in are. Although I really, really hate to admit it, I am a history nerd deep deep deep down (waaaaaay down) and cities are just full of history. Each buildingholds some form of significance, the beautiful creations that most of them all are beyond comparison to the modern blocks that we build today.

The walls of each building hold so many untold stories, if walls could talk, I'd happily sit and listen to them all day long.

So far I have been to London, Dublin, Belfast and Barcelona... I'm basically interestedin any city, so if I get the chance to go there I will!!!! Although I have visited these cities and live in one of them (Belfast) I haven’t really explored them enough, so I think a revisit is in order!!!

  

Hopefully I will be able to visit more and more cities as I get older, I’d love to have that privilege and share these experiences with you too.

“When you look at a city, it’s like reading the hopes, aspirations and pride of everyone who built it.”

Hugh Newell Jacobsen

Leanne x