TRAVEL BLOG
Tuesday, June 07, 2005
London in the desert
I'm going to London tomorrow, or as I like to call it - Home. I always love going back.
When I was living in London I lost count of the amount of times I heard the hoary old chestnut about the wealthy American businessman who bought London Bridge thinking that he had bought Tower Bridge. This is an urban myth.
The bridge can now be found in Lake Havasu, Arizona.
It makes me happy to think that there is a part of London in the Arizona desert. So to paraphrase the poet Rupert Brooke:
"...there’s some corner of a foreign field that is forever England."
When I was living in London I lost count of the amount of times I heard the hoary old chestnut about the wealthy American businessman who bought London Bridge thinking that he had bought Tower Bridge. This is an urban myth.
The bridge can now be found in Lake Havasu, Arizona.
It makes me happy to think that there is a part of London in the Arizona desert. So to paraphrase the poet Rupert Brooke:
"...there’s some corner of a foreign field that is forever England."
Labels: arizona, lake havasu, london bridge, rupert brooke
Posted by James Clark - editor of itravelnet.com
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