There is little doubt that whilst London is geographically situated on the main isle of the British Isles it is a world apart. I have known this for a long time yet, walking the streets this weekend, it really did seem for the first time a strange and different place. For the first time I felt like a stranger in part of the country I call home.

Now I know central London is nothing like the many boroughs that circulate this lodestone the whole place is different, unique, wonderful and really daunting.

I’ve come away genuinely exhausted by the whole experience and I am enjoying the simple world less than 100 miles away from the ‘smoke’