So that’s it for this trip! We had the easiest possible travel day and it went by in a flash, unlike the return from Paris of the rest of our group. (Bumped off their flight from Toronto to Windsor and had to take a train).

The terrible Manchester bombing on Monday has naturally changed the tone of things in the UK. National Security is now elevated to critical levels and on the streets it might feel more like Paris for a while. That LSO concert we saw in Trafalgar Square on Sunday could be the last carefree civic gathering for some time. I don’t know. It’s good to be home. It feels safer here at the moment.

Although we have to accept that the “feeling of safety” is more hopefulness than instinct these days, we also have to keep living and working and doing what makes us happy (if we have that luxury). I’m am antsy to get home and find work for the summer and get back into the flow so in a few months I can start thinking about where to go next. And maybe get a cat. Or a bird. (Been seriously thinking about birds on this trip).