In May I was back in London again and I took the opportunity to participate in one of the photography workshops offered by Shoreditch Street Art Tours. I had enjoyed one of their evening street art tours last year and I decided I wanted to get to know Shoreditch and the street art to be […]
During my most recent trip to London I spent a day wandering around Bloomsbury, a leafy district known for its eminent publishing houses, museums and colleges, to visit three bookshops in the area, as well as the venerable British Museum. My first stop was Arthur Probsthain, an independent family-run bookshop that has been trading since […]
I made it to the Old Street tube station, where the underground trains stop in an area of London that was once known for its heaving slums, criminal characters and actors. Whitechapel Road was not far away, which was the haunt of “Jack the Ripper” and the Kray twins, a couple of infamous East End […]
The Coutauld Gallery is a lot less well-known than some of the major art galleries in London, such as the National Gallery and National Portrait Gallery in Trafalgar Square, Tate Britain on the Thames embankment, near Westminster, and Tate Modern on the south bank of the Thames, across from the main financial district known as […]
During my stay in London in the summer this year I spent a pleasant couple of hours walking around Morden Hall Park, which is located in Morden, in southwest London. The park is just a short drive from better-known Wimbledon. The park is owned by the National Trust, an organization that owns many properties around […]
According to the official Llandudno tourism website, Llandudno is American author Bill Bryson’s favorite seaside resort. After spending a week in this town on the North Wales coast, I can understand why so many people like to return to Llandudno for their holidays. Since the Victorian era, the town has been called the “Queen of […]
During my recent trip to Llandudno, in North Wales, I drove with my father across the Menai Straits to visit Parys Mountain on the Isle of Anglesey. I wanted to see the site of an ancient copper mine that some historians say was the largest copper-producing mine in the world during the 18th and 19th […]
I spent a week with my father in Llandudno on the North Wales coast earlier this month. It was really great to be back in this part of the world, which I had visited many times in the past – as a child with my family and later as an adult – but I had […]
I had been looking forward to visiting the famous travel shop near London’s Covent Garden with much expectation and anticipation. From everything that I had read about the place it appeared to be a kind of mecca for travelers. I’m happy to report that when I was in London a couple of weeks ago I […]
I have just returned home after an enjoyable European trip with my wife and daughter that included three days in London. We stayed at the Holiday Inn on Old Street in Shoreditch, in the Borough of Hackney. This is not an obvious location for tourists, most of whom visit the city to explore central London’s […]