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I was born in London, lived in the north of England for many years and now live, at least for a little while, near Washington DC in the United States. This blog is a sidewise look at life in America through the eyes of a Brit. Further background to this blog can be found at:
A summary of blog subjects is shown below, click on the title to go to the entry
Following an announcement that I was bringing the blog to an end and returning to the UK – “The best- laid schemes o’ mice an’ men” and I am here until about March 2010.
The shopping Malls of America are homogeneous, huge and easy to get lost in.
The naming of American systems has a strange biological parallel
Why do things have to be so complicated? I think however I may have solved the problem
They say American’s don’t do irony. Not entirely true but it is a little different in the US compared to the UK.
Travelling back to the US and not even out of the UK before chaos strikes.
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Blog posts during March to September 2009
I am in no doubt that it must be easier for someone from the UK to drive in the US than vice versa. Compared to the UK, US roads are wide and the traffic largely speaking is sedate. In the UK on the other hand, the roads are narrow, there can be parked vehicles to contend with and everything
seems to move at a much swifter pace.
A rodeo in Montana was spectacular but it was the cowgirl’s goat roping that got my attention.
It has always seemed a little strange to me that so many people in America will order the equivalent of a half-pounder cheeseburger with double fries and a diet coke…
Every bar I have been into in the USA has a TV tuned to the sports channel…
There is a statue of General Joseph Hooker opposite Boston Common – but that’s not all…
I suffer from vertigo which gives me a bit of a problem in the US with its many tall buildings and a predilection for elevators made of glass.
There are two things that are different about advertising in the USA compared to the UK: the amount and the content!
San Francisco is probably my favourite city in the USA but the streets are pretty mean.
Cockney rhyming slang – they just don’t get it in America
I am not sure why but some people in the US find my London accent difficult to understand.
The gun laws in the United States sem a little strange to someone from the UK, then on the other hand there are certain benefits, perhaps
Getting a taxi in order to catch a train to go to Philadelphia was not quite as simple as I had planed.
A hotel I stayed in was holding a National Cheer Leader convention, which beame a tad distracting.
Seeing the wildlife brings home that I am in a foreign land.
The US is a conservative country, not less so when it comes to alcohol. The rules change from State to State and some States are stranger than others
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More blogs to follow with an entry at least once a month, although I seem to be doing about one per week at present. I see the readership numbers are hitting nearly 100 or so – I feel obliged to keep this up. (Note: I quoted the number of hits prior to posting a blog called “Hookers” – see above. I think it only scientific to exclude the number of visits to the blog that this lead to).
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