The City At Night

I'm a country boy through and through.

Night noises for me are the hooting of owls, the sneezing of hedgehogs and rustles of deer passing through.
I love to take a walk through the lanes lit by the moon alone, or gaze up at the sky full of stars.

Even when I travel, I prefer to find a country hotel but, once in a while, I will stay in the heart of a city.
Here I am wide eyed as a child with the glow of lights and the signs of all the people; the traffic and voices.

I still enjoy the novelty of buying a coffee and a sandwich in what seems like the middle of the night and sitting with them in the corner, reading a novel or scribbling in my notebook until its time to walk back to my hotel room, kick off my clothes and launch myself into the crisp clean sheets.