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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Traipsing Through The Tower of London and Haunting Hampstead on Halloween Eve
Sunday, October 30, 2016 London Morning Rush: Since clocks went back an hour in the middle of the night, I had re-set my own wrist-watch before I dropped off last night. Still, despite getting an extra hour to blog, review my upcoming travel plans and make my To-Do List for the coming week, plus…
Touring the Tower,the Silver Vaults, Dickens’ London & National Theater
Monday, January 16, 2012LondonAn Early Start for the Tower of London:Our NYU group was initially supposed to take a ride on the London Eye–but, to our bad luck, it remains closed this week for renovation. In lieu of that treat, our local travel agents–Anglo-America–suggested the Ceremony of the Keys at the Tower of London. Never…
Au Revoir France! Last Day in London…and Arrival Home in the USA
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Thursday, July 30, 2009Paris and London Our very last day in Paris had arrived—where had our holiday gone? Awaking to a continental breakfast (cereal and French roast coffee), Llew and I set out to cover the last bits and pieces of Paris that we had not yet seen. The Dome Church of Les Invalides:Our first…
Highlights of the Louvre, Notre Dame and the Ile de la Cite
Friday, July 24, 2009Paris We awoke refreshed from our long slumber in a city that slept, it seemed, quietly with us. Sheltered in the serene cocoon of our airy bedroom, we were clueless to the life that teemed around us just a street away on the Champs Elysses. With everyone else away for the day…
In Oxford Again! Giving A Lecture at Exeter College
Wednesday, July 22, 2009Oxford Made it! Despite getting to bed about 2 am, we boarded our Megabus coach to Oxford at 6. 30 right on schedule. Llew tried to snatch some ZZZZs but I was so keyed up about my 9. 00 am lecture at Exeter College and spent most of the ride into Wiltshire…
Windsor Castle and Helen Mirren as Phedre at the National
Monday, July 21, 2009Windsor and London With Llew on vacation, we are taking it easy in the mornings—waking late, breakfasting at leisure, showering and dressing as if we have the entire day ahead of us—which we do! However, I did want to make a day of it in Windsor; so without wasting too much time,…
The Tower of London and Dinner at Lahore Kebab House in Whitechapel
Sunday, July 19, 2009London It being Sunday, Llew and I decided to go for Service to the Church of St. Peter in Chains which is one of the royal chapels of her Majesty the Queen located inside the precincts of the Tower of London on Tower Hill. We ate a cereal breakfast at home, then…
Last Interviews with Anglo-Indians
Thursday, July 9, 2009London No matter how much time I estimate it will take to arrive somewhere on the buses, it usually takes double! So, after breakfast and a shower, I left my flat at Farringdon at 8. 20 am for a meeting at 10 am at Norwood Junction to meet an Anglo-Indian couple from…
Last Walk in Chiswick and Wimbledon with Amy
Thursday, July 2, 2009Chiswick and Wimbledon With my friend Amy in town, I resolved to complete the last walk in my book Frommer’s 24 Great Walks in London. Now were I planning to do it with anyone else, I might have abandoned the idea. But Amy is such a sport and perhaps the most uncomplaining…