All Entries in the "London" Category
A Family Reunion (of sorts) and the British Library (again)
Trudy in a nearby field. Taken yesterday in England on my Blackberry Pearl. Saturday, Roxi and I went into London to meet a cousin of mine at Waterloo Station. Actually, it was more of a drive-by reunion since we only spent about 15 or 20 minutes together. But wow-we’d never met before, so it was [...]
Dear London,
I had such a nice time with you yesterday. Wasn’t the weather wonderful? No rain and not too cool nor too hot (well, except in the underground). I was going to send you photos of our day, but I can’t find my camera cable anywhere! I’ve been working in three different rooms lately, so I [...]
The Lord of the Rings Musical (long and contains spoilers)
This is one of the musicals Roxi wanted to see this summer. When I found out it was closing July 19, I decided it had better be our NEXT musical . The Lord of the Rings (LotR) is playing until July 19 at the Theatre Royal Drury Lane in Covent Garden. Do you know the [...]
Imperial War Museum London and Whole Foods Market Kensington
After Mr. DJ and I dropped Roxi off at her friend’s house, we took the train into London. Another beautiful, summery day! Oh, and after all that moaning I’ve been doing about the “100 Days of Darkness”, I wanted to say that the days are so nice and long now! Sunrise today was at 4:45am, [...]
I went to London for a bit of New York Dada
Yesterday, I went to London’s Tate Modern museum to see the special exhibit Duchamp Man Ray Picabia. I liked viewing their work together–it made it easy to see how they influenced each other. I won’t go into any of detail, but you can read a review of the show here if you like. Also, if [...]
I would have liked to have chaperoned this field trip
As you may recall, Roxi went to London with her classmates last Friday evening. The trip was to celebrate the completion of their mystery genre study. Before Spring Break, the class read a Sherlock Holmes story. After dissecting it, they were then were required to write their own short mystery. Roxi’s story involved stolen history [...]
The British Library
If I lived within a 30-minute tube ride of St. Pancras or Kings Cross station, I’d spend many of my days at this wondrous place. The British Library is a cross between a library and a museum and has a store and a cafe. What else is there? . If you go, be sure to [...]
Aunt J does London
It was a bit cold today–but we bundled up and took the train into London. When we got into the city, we knew we had to hurry over to Buckingham Palace to catch the Changing of the Guards. Along the way, Aunt J noticed a double-decker bus. I thought I’d never take them for granted, [...]
London was crowded
What was I thinking? London was PACKED this weekend, mostly with tourists from the Continent. Even so, we ran into people we knew, and we don’t know that many people. Later, we heard from one of Roxi’s friends that she ran into another classmate at the British Museum. I guess it was the sunshine. Either [...]
Photos of my day in the city
I got into London just after 10 am. I picked up my breakfast (a pasty) and ate it while I meandered toward the Thames. This is the clock at Waterloo Station. I found this paver while I was walking toward the Jubilee Bridge. In the many, many times I’ve passed this way, I have never [...]
