Give ‘The Shard’ a miss
The best thing about ‘The Shard,’ often referred to as the ‘Shard of Glass,’ is its impressive crystalline shape on the London skyline. It’s 87 stories, the tallest building in Western Europe, with 72 habitable floors. It has a hotel, offices, restaurants, residential apartments and viewing platforms. But having just had a drink with my […]
I love Chelsea, London
I’ve just had the most relaxing Saturday morning, in Chelsea, away from the mayhem of Kensington and Oxford Street. The shopping is excellent and it’s like a neighborhood, with not too many tourists congesting the footpaths. I found a particularly lovely spot, the Duke of York Square, just off King’s Road, about 2 minutes from the […]
A stark reminder of lives lost in World War 1
I’m in London for a couple of days, on route to Switzerland. I got up before sunrise today to see the thousands of poppies surrounding the Tower of London to commemorate 100 years since World War 1 began. What seemed like an infinite number of poppies, already fills the tower’s moat. But what I didn’t […]