😍 Glimpses of England 🌹

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 I remember my first time in London! Perfectly! 😍
I was so excited! 
I was finally going to visit and see all the famous places I had read and heard about and watched on tv as I grew up!
I felt head over heels when I had my first glimpse 👀 of a red double-decker bus... a black taxi... Piccadilly Circus... 😀
I was with an English friend, then, and I told him I wanted to go everywhere, at once, but he asked me to 'calm down' because it was Mission Impossible! 😉
First, London is a very, very big city!
"And, Sandra", he told me, " most important of all, enjoy every second in London to the fullest"! 
He was right.







Have you ever been abroad? 
In London or to any other foreign city?
What was your experience like?
How did you feel?
Let us know, please!


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