I FORGOT TO WRITE ABOUT our trip to the Tea Palace last week. Tucked into a street adjacent to Portobello Road filled with designer shops, fine clothing and shoe stores, and upscale furniture and fixture places, the Tea Palace dedicates itself to all things tea in a very simple way. The stop presents […]
LAST WEEK WAS NOT A PARTICULARLY GOOD ONE for British Prime Minister Gordon Brown, what with the loss of 25 million people’s personal records. The graffiti artists near the National Theatre had some words of advice for the rest of the country on Thursday. The graffiti was gone when we went back past […]
MADE IT BACK to the good, ole USA on Sunday. The weather felt positively balmy in Boston, but that might just have been the over abundance of sunshine in comparison to London. We headed back up to Ludlow, Vermont, where is promptly snowed during the night (just a dusting, but snow nonetheless). […]
TUCKED IN NEXT TO SOUTHWARK CATHEDRAL and the London Bridge Tube and Rail station, the Borough Market beckons to foodies in London looking for meats, fruits and vegetables as well as a quick bite to eat. It is an overwhelming experience. I never visited this place when I was here in London in […]
I took this photo of the Battersea Power Station as I walked from the Chelsea Bridge up to the Tower Bridge yesterday. It was my enjoy the sunshine, see the Thames and celebrate Thanksgiving walk. All told, probably about five plus miles. I got a few blisters on my toes for my […]
HAVING SEEN TOO MUCH of the London theatre in my youth, cooled my enthusiasm to American theater and increased my snobbery London theatre. The end result is that I go to see a show very rarely. Although, with a broad selection of big name, big tour shows in Boston and the proximity of […]
SEEMS LIKE THE ENGLISH have taken to Thanksgiving a bit in the last 20 years. I found this Thanksgiving poster selling turkeys in a butcher shop window on Holland Park. And just before watching the English National team play like the 1970s Red Sox and lose to Croatia, they mentioned doing some celebrating […]
WE HAD OUR FIRST GLIMPSE of blue skies since we got to England. The sunshine nearly blinded us as we made towards the center of London for a little bit of “geek” shopping. We first made our way to Gosh!, which sits close to the British Museum. The store stocks nothing but […]
AT BUMPKIN, EVERY MEMBER OF THE STAFF not dressed up or in cooking clothes wear off white t-shirts that say “country boy” or “country girl” on the back of them in a rather rustic, wood grained font. Whenever I hear or see the phrase “country girl” I think of the Primal Scream song entitled […]
