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I ended my trip in London, which was probably a good place to finish, because I was tired and the English-speaking nature of...England...made London the easiest city for me to navigate. I stopped in at some tourist destinations, but I also did simple things: ate street food, went to a movie--the sort of things you can do anywhere, technically, but it was nice to be in a city where the options for food and movies were varied and plentiful. I'm still trying to parse what, precisely, the purpose of all this travel is, but maybe it can be as simple as enjoying the advantages one place offers that yours does not. Europe has history and culture distinct from America; these cities I've been visiting have things Tromsø does not. But now I'm back in Tromsø, curled up in bed with a mug of tea, and outside it is snowing. Tomorrow I will go back to work and dailiness, because right now Tromsø holds something the places I've been visiting lack: my life.