Friday, September 12, 2025 London, UK Today All About Doing My Favorite London Things! Being a Sloane Ranger, Taking a (Free) Red Bus Tour, Re-Exploring Covent Garden, Lunch at Bill’s, Seeing the Poppies at the Tower of London, Late Evening Openings at the National Portrait Gallery and the National Gallery and Viewing London By Night.…
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London Lures Me Back! Haircut in Chelsea, Fabulous Fitzrovia Chapel, Lebanese Lunch in Mayfair, in Liberty of London, Viewing the Renovated National Portrait Gallery, Theater Show at the West End
Wednesday, Aug 2, 2023 London Lures Me Back! Haircut in Chelsea, Fabulous Fitzrovia Chapel, Lebanese Lunch in Mayfair, in Liberty of London, Viewing the Renovated National Portrait Gallery, Theater Show at the West End It was another stunning day in London, weather-wise, and I made the most of it (there have not been too many…
Mass at Brompton Oratory, Museum-Hopping and Drink with a Colleague
Sunday, August 28, 2016 London Unbelievable that tomorrow will make a month since I arrived in this city! But then I think of how much I have covered, how much has been accomplished and I feel as if I have been here forever. Awaking at 6.30 am, I had the time to write a…
A Lonely Wedding Anniversary–Saved by Roses, Friend and Trans-Atlantic Communication
Saturday, August 27, 2016London As I have already expressed, I am feeling far more lonely this time round in London than I ever did before on the many occasions I have lived alone here. It must have to do with the fact that I live in a house (not a flat) with no known neighbors…
An Errand in Ealing and Late Evening at National Portrait Gallery
Friday, August 26, 2016 London Today is the Friday of a long ‘Bank Holiday’ Weekend in the UK–not sure what the Bank Holiday is for…but everyone is in a jolly mood with three days ahead to veg out. As for me, I have to admit that loneliness is beginning to hit me gradually coupled…
Final Day in London: Museums, Theater, Slap-Up Dinner
Saturday, July 18, 2015: London Fitting Final Features Into Our Last Full Day in London: And so it dawned! Our sad final day in London because all great things must come to an end. We awoke to finish up packing and dividing the weight we had acquired into the four suitcases we are allowed…
Revisiting Trafalgar Square and The Wallace Collection
Friday, July 19, 2013 London Today turned out to be a not-so-exciting one. I woke early, did substantial work at my computer before eating my muesli breakfast. But by the time I managed to get out of the house it was about 9. 45 am—perhaps already a tad too late to try to snag a…
In Stratford–Shakespeare Found–and the Cotswolds
Sunday, June 28, 2009Stratford-on-Avon and Chipping Norton I had no intentions to returning to Stratford-on-Avon while I was in Oxford. After all, I had been there the weekend of Shakespeare’s birthday (April 23) with Stephanie and would not have wanted to waste a day in the same venue. But just a couple of weeks after…
Dallying in Dulwich! And Transcribing Another Interview
Friday, June 5, 2009Dulwich, London It seems that either I stay up half the night with sleeplessness or I awake at 8. 15 (now this has to be the latest I have ever awoken here!) and panic. Because I had plans to meet my friend Janie at East Dulwich Station at 9. 30, I tore…
Packing & Posting, An Organ Recital and the Bank of England Museum
Tuesday, May 26, 2009London Life returned to legal London this morning as Holborn sprang up like a phoenix from the ashes of the long holiday weekend. As folks rushed in and out of the Tube stairwell to the closest coffee shop or their electronic offices, I continued reading The Order of the Phoenix, then went…