Category Archives: .LONDON

2026.01.08: LON-SFO…

Rain is coming to town… Good Bye London… NG House… Michelin House… South Kensington… mind the gap… Giraffe… food from around the world… Best British Food… bear gifts… Pret a… décoller… Moving pics… Monsieur Aznavour… Love Actually… The Naked Gun… … Continue reading

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2026.01.07.London: A British Day

British Museum… BA checkin the Great Court… on to the temporary exhibits… surprise detour… Reading Room! Missing pieces… a place-time puzzle… Carnaby Street… Handel Hendrix House… music-time travel… The Barbary… deliciously cosy… a new tradition… last bus ride … London … Continue reading

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2026.01.06.London: Snow!

Back in London… after a long traveling day… cloudy… with a taste of shakshuka! The snow came flying… Paul detour… by the Chelsea Old Town Hall… the happy noodle bar… back in time… Royal College of Music Museum… Albertopolis… Hyde … Continue reading

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MOVIE NIGHT: Freud’s Last Session

Freudian trip: psychoanalyst’s London home recreated in Dublin for major film Freud’s Last Session: Finding the Other in the Question of God Film Screening: Freud’s Last Session in Freud’s Last Home

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MOVIE NIGHT: Sing Street

Sing Street (2016)

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CITINERARY: Hampton Court Palace

Royal Greetings from Hampton Court Palace!   The original Tudor Hampton Court Palace was begun by Cardinal Wolsey in the early 16th century, but it soon attracted the attention of Henry VIII, who brought all his six wives here. Surrounded by … Continue reading

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2023.08.15.LON-SJC

… via Borough Market… Bread Ahead… Flat Cap Coffee… Greetings from London! Summer finally arrived in London… right in time to say good bye to London… if there’s one thing to remember about air travel… LON to SJC was a … Continue reading

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2023.08.14.Cambridge-London

Saying Goodbye to Cambridge… leaving the rain… following the clouds… one more day in London… the traditional Tas Pide… criss-cross-ing the Thames… to Florin Court… Bunhill Fields… Spitalfields Market… Petticoat Lane… Boar’s Head Playhouse… it’s a summer light night!

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2023.07.24.London-Paris

If it’s Monday, this must be London… in the morning… and City of Lights in the evening… and a wonderful Basque dinner… hmmm… delicious Chez Gladines Saint Germain! The light rain is gone… for a late evening Seine stroll… and … Continue reading

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2023.07.23.LON: Hampton Court

From a Lucy Worsley treasure hunt… to an almost full day at Hampton Court… not nearly enough time… a citinerary for next time?

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