Reading

Thames, Reading - Berkshire

After few meters from the train station we crossed a little alley and this is what I saw at the end of it: the thames, the park.

It was so exciting.

Surely not the best view of the area, but this is an indelible memory to me.
It was like all the light water and the breadth of the park was a sort of way to enlarge my own heart.

I felt so happy and so welcomed by this new place that, from that day onward, I could call home.
So happy that I literally abandoned my luggages to start taking pictures with my phone :)

First snow

The landscape from my seat on the train to Reading

Yesterday and the day before was falling a bit of snow.
This makes me remember that the day after my arrival there were a lot of areas widely covered with soft white snow.

Maybe this seems not very interesting for someone used to it, but in Italy I lived near the sea and snow it's for me still like a sort of magic.

That day a friend of mine, who moved to work in London several months before me, sent me a text. Apparently no (serious) rain fell until my husband moved to England (in October) and no snow was seen until I moved here too. He said to us that we have to start questioning ourselves about this XD