Jan 9, 2020
8 min read
Adventures in the Familiar Zone
Sometimes the very places you once longed to escape become exciting again.
Once upon a time, I lost my way on a walk, and I genuinely panicked that I’d remain disorientated long enough to die of exposure. It was a summer’s evening in urban England, I was half a mile from my front door in full sight of two roads, and I was nearly 40 years old. From the safety of my East London sofa just now, I image-searched…
