Tag: Walking

• Two Worlds

  

  When you live in a city, you don’t only become part of it; it becomes part of you. I first had the idea for this post in a shower. And for weeks it has been brewing in the back of my mind. Partly because I have been feeling tired recently, which is no good for…

  valsaksornchai

  February 23, 2014

  Bangkok, Cities, Life, London, Self

  Bangkok, Bristol, car, commute, culture, Economics, environment, identity, Life, London, Oxford, Paris, Politics, Relationship, self, society, Thailand, traffic, train, urban, Walking

• Slow Walkers

  So, one of the main advantages of having lived abroad in cities whose citizens rely heavily on public transport (London and Paris) is this: you learn to walk faster. It’s probably an incremental change. I’m not sure when it happened. When I arrived in the UK in 2007, I must have walked at the ‘normal’…

  valsaksornchai

  December 6, 2013

  Curiosities

  Complaints, Eurostar, French people, King’s Cross St. Pancras tube station, London, Paris, Random, St Pancras railway station, Victoria line, Walking