- tea - my selection of fruit tea, herbal tea, Earl Grey, Lady Grey, random Chinese tea ... (coffee is just not an equivalent - not even Italian ones)
- texting & picking up my phone to talk to my friends ~ although my travelling buddy is lovely; calm, patient, can defuse any situation, can read a map, can fix my camera, has a bag which has everything I ever wanted, can motivate me to walk even when I don't want to.
- St Helens - all those Gothic churches with lots of icons have a gloomy atmosphere.
- all of my books - I really wanted to read some scenes from "a room with a view".
- English newspaper - going to bed with one now :)
But I survived without the above for a week ... so maybe it wasn't too bad afterall ...
