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London: A Dickensian Day with Pubs Aplenty
IT WAS MORE THE HOUSE — a late Regency row house in Holborn that I knew would have similarities with the two mid-19th c. houses I own in Brooklyn — than any particular connection with Charles Dickens that brought me … Continue reading
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Tagged Charles Dickens house, Cittie of York, Clerkenwell, Dalston, Holborn, Jerusalem Tavern, Lady Ottoline, Princess Louise, Rio Cinema
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A Sunny, Art-full Day in London Town
SUNNY AND IN THE 60s…I can’t complain about yesterday’s weather in London. And there’s something about the sky. When it’s not gray (as it so often is, and is again today, Friday), it’s particularly, poignantly beautiful. I visited two of … Continue reading
London: St. Paul’s to Fleet Street to Waterloo Sunset
YESTERDAY I LET MYSELF BE LED THROUGH the multifarious heart of London by two lifelong Londoners. First by bus, where I appreciated the classic proportions of St. Paul’s Cathedral, above, from the top deck of the swaying red leviathan on … Continue reading
London: Slinging Thru Islington
ARRIVING IN LONDON YESTERDAY MORNING for a late winter sojourn, I had none of the sense of disorientation and dislocation I normally do when landing in a foreign country after a semi-sleepless night on a plane. No, I just got … Continue reading