Sunday, October 5, 2008Barcelona Early on Sunday morning, while the rest of the Youth Hostel residents were sleeping off their weekend carousing, I walked quickly along the Bari Gottic and arrived at the Museu Picasso only to be stunned at the endless line that had formed before the museum even opened its doors. With at…
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Spectacular Syon House
Wednesday, October 1, 2008London The month of October has started quite spectacularly for me. Having heard about Syon House during my training as a docent at the Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York almost ten years ago (one of the ‘period’ rooms at the Museum is a recreation of the Dining Room at Syon…
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…
A Day Out in St. Albans
Tuesday, September 16, 2008St. Albans, Hertfordshire I had heard a great deal about the lovely little town of St. Albans. When my friend Shahnaz Bhagat arrived in London last night with her husband Mukarram and suggested we spend the day together, I thought immediately of getting away from the city and catching up with them…
The Graciousness of Greenwich
What’s the first thing you think of when you hear the word ‘Greenwich? For me, it’s always been Greenwich Mean Time. Coming close on it’s heels is the Prime Meridian. All those geography lessons in grade eight or nine come back so vividly. So, when Freshmen Orientation included a visit to Greenwich on a Thames…
Our Highland Fling–Travels in Scotland and Northern England
More Medieval Wonders in YorkshireWednesday, August 27, 2008, Yorkshire, England We awoke on our 14th wedding anniversary in Alan Bowyer’s B&B to partake of the last full English breakfast of the heart-clogging kind. Tomorrow, we will awake in our flat in High Holborn and will eat sensibly again. I took a turn around his lovely…