Busy Cambridge!

I have been in Cambridge for 2 weeks, and I just saw the sun for the first time yesterday, typical UK weather! I love Cambridge; it’s a city of 130,000 people, and very easy to get around, I am good on the number 2 bus! I am staying with the BK family, in a lovely home, close to the city centre. I am attending programs, meetings etc., and spending time with Prashant (very wise, always learn from him) also my friend Sarah, (she always looks after me)! I gave a public talk on Forgiving and Forgetting in life, again as I did in the spring, overlooking King’s College.

As you know I had wanted to find place to stay and spend year in the UK, but didn’t know if I could find something that I could afford, it’s very expensive, everything costs double here! I got very lucky one day, I was at movies having a chat with a young woman, and told her what I was looking for, so she connected me to her friend named Sarah. Sarah has a lovely Victorian terrace home on a lovely street, close to the river, within walking distance of the city centre. I will be her tenant, with a bedroom and an en-suite bathroom in her home, and the price is very fair, I am very, very lucky!! Sarah is a retired educator and I will move here for one year, starting April 15th 2016.

I will be buying a bike, I went on a 10-mile cycle‎ with a friend and survived, bikes are part of culture here! The energy in Cambridge is very busy and good, because there are students here from all over the world.

When I was here 2 years ago, I posted a blog about this wonderful young man, named Peter, who took me around Cambridge for my birthday; he had keys for all of the doors. I was very taken with him, he was 22, very ill, at the time, and he really understood the meaning of life, I nicknamed him, The Oracle! He moved to Devon, but arrived in Cambridge for few days. I was thrilled to see him, he seems to be much better, healthy, eating; he has gained weight, and still deserves the name, The Oracle.

I am writing from this London where I am staying for a couple of days to get my London fix. To see my dear friend Briony, and to attend her launch of Ambit, an excellent Literary Magazine, ‎and also to have dinner with some wonderful friends from Canada, Prue and Bruce! Bruce is Board Member of the Archbishop of Canterbury’s Compass Rose Society; they do charity work around the world. Of course I did a little shopping at Uniglo, my favourite store in the world, Toronto will be getting one next year.

Next stop Kuwait!!!

Extra pictures from Cambridge and London