View From The Country

It takes travelling over 4000 miles to realise what you needed was to see something beautiful.

Yesterday I got on a plane at Gatwick and flew to Antigua. Nothing really beats flying in over the islands and seeing the bright and unusual houses and huts. Oh wait... When you come off the plane they are playing steel drums, which has to be one of my favourite sounds ever. Oh wait... This morning, because I'm still on English time I got up and went out on the balcony at 4am, all you can hear is the sound of nature: crickets chirping, water dripping on the leaves... the closer you listen the more you hear. The water shimmers with the moonlight, the sky is perfectly clear and filled with stars and just the faint glow of lights across the bay.

Some times humans and nature can do wonderful things together. *contented sign*


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