Tag Archives: London

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Around London

6 days in London has flown by, and it has only rained briefing on the last evening in London (Tuesday), on the way to The Shard. I decided to spend the 6 days visiting some […]

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Keflavik, Iceland to London

5am start to meet a 7.45am Keflavik airport departure to Gatwick. I could hear the wind hitting the side of the Hotel Berg during the night, and it’s still howling at 5.45am. By the time […]

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Paris to London

Today it’s time to travel from Paris to London. Okay, so the taxi company has the same trouble finding Rue St Roch (another one-way street in the 1st arrondissement) as they did Rue de la […]

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London to Paris by Eurostar

Today I’m travelling from London to Paris by Eurostar in an effort to miss the Good Friday holiday traffic due tomorrow. A very straightforward 2.5 hours later, the first of the changes in the five […]

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‘The Heart of the Great Alone’ Exhibition

Continuing the photography and royalty theme in London, today it is off to the Queen’s Gallery, to see “The Heart of the Great Alone”, the Antarctic photography expedition featuring photographs of Scott and Shackleton by […]

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Anne of Cleves & the V&A, London

I had been watching season 4 of The Tudors in January, which made me want to learn more about Anne of Cleves, Henry VIII’s repudiated 4th Queen. Despite being reputed to have a face a […]