There’s Something about London…

There’s something about London

That magical place, the center of the once great British empire, and now the culture hub of the world; or at least of Europe.

There’s just something about London…

The Magic of London

This post won’t make sense to a lot of you. Heck, it doesn’t make sense to me either, I’m probably just writing this in my sleep-addled state, high on caffeine and feeling nostalgic for a place I’ve never been to, yet a place I’ve always been wanting to go to.

What’s that word the Welsh have for it?

Hiraeth?

A longing for a home that never was? A home that seems far off and away in the misty distance.

Nostalgia and melancholy for a place I’ve never visited except through the avenue of books and some extremely beautiful movies.

Ah, London, you beautiful, cruel, kind, wondrous, Mistress! How you call to me.

How I yearn to feel your grass and feel your sun on me, with all its warmth in the winter chill.

Is it mere wanderlust that drives me so? Or is it something deeper? A yearning to be at the center of the cultural revolution of the world? Or perhaps just to be in that place where many authors began their magical journey’s long before me, and will continue to do so long after I have passed.

Is it that I think that my Hogwarts Express awaits me there to take me on a magical journey to my own Hogwarts? To a greater, more magnificent, magical, perhaps even mystical future?

Is that it? I know not.

All I know is that I have this terrible yearning for a land I have never been to, a land whose call echoes across the seas to me. A land where books and magic and words come alive, and where the many shades of humanity intermingle to create an everyday drama greater than any penned by Shakespeare, where mystery and adventure abounds everyday, greater than any written by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle.

A land where Sherlock Holmes solves mysteries, where Jack the Ripper creates ripples of fear, where Bartimaeus and Nathaniel unravel the mysteries of magic, where Lockwood and co. deal with dangerous Ghosts and Visitors, and Harry Potter and Lord Voldemort are caught in an eternal war between good and evil.

A land where magic comes alive…

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