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Bookshop tour of Bloomsbury, London

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 […]

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Street art in Shoreditch, East London

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 […]

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Europe in London: The Courtauld Gallery

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 […]

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Morden Hall Park, London

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 […]

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The Pier, Llandudno, Wales

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 […]

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