Wednesday, December 10, 2008Belfast-London On another bleak morning, I awoke to potter around my backpack, shower, dress and check out of the Youth Hostel where I had spent four rather interesting and very comfortable nights. If you do not mind your bed sailing each time the occupant of the upper bunk moves, if you can…
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Belfast–Northern Ireland’s Capital
Tuesday, December 9, 2008Belfast I awoke to another dismal day. It was wet and it was cold–hardly the kind of weather in which one could go out joyfully to explore a city. Thanks to the Hop On Hop Off Bus, my day was saved in that I was actually able to salvage it. I purchased…
Hiya Hadrian!
Thursday, October 2, 2008London Just when I was contemplating whether or not to splurge on the special exhibit at the British Museum titled “Hadrian: Empire and Conflict”, Robert Pinkerton from NYU’s Programing Department emailed to let me know that they had extra tickets and could join them. Could I indeed! We assembled outside the Bedford…
Two Relatively Uneventful Days
Monday and Tuesday, September 29 and 30, 2008London Spent almost every minute of the last two days at home, save for this evening (Tuesday) when I stepped out to our NYU campus to see This is England, Shane Meadows’ brilliant film about Thacherite England during the Falklands War. Yesterday was beautifully sunny. Tempting though it…
Liverpool at Leisure (Continued)
Sunday, September 28, 2008Liverpool Another glorious day! The Liverpudlians were pleased. They informed us that we had brought the good weather with us. Breakfast at the Holiday Inn was a Continental affair–Carb Central with Caffeine thrown in for good measure. I had slept like a baby and jumped up on discovering that it was 8…
Liverpool at Leisure
September 27, 2008Liverpool, UK The last time I had been to Liverpool was four years ago to present a paper at a Conference at Liverpool John Moores University. My exploration of the city had been a slapdash affair with the two churches covered–the towering, stupendous Anglican Cathedral that dominates the city’s skyline and the Metropolitan…
Hello Dr. G!
Friday, September 26, 2008London My friend, Dr. G, alias Firdaus Gandavia from Bombay, is here in London! I am so thrilled to see him! But for the fact that he was traveling from Brighton this morning and arrived at my place only at 12. 45, we could have taken the Oxford Tube and hotfoooted it…
Pani-Puri and Paan at Southall
Saturday, September 20, 2008Hounslow and Southall My day began on the Piccadilly line headed for Hounslow East to see my Dad’s cousin, Sybil, whom I remember with great affection as having given me a memorable time when I arrived in London for the very first time 22 years ago. She lived then in a sprawling…