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Lockdown London

January 28, 2021by theromantictraveller Leave a comment

As movement is largely curtailed these days I thought I’d share some of my musings and revisit some of the places I’ve been to in the past. As you can […]

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A gateway on the past

April 6, 2015by theromantictraveller Leave a comment

This is an old familiar sight in the heart of London, just off Charing Cross and a stone’s throw (by catapult) from Trafalgar Square. It’s an imposing 17th century stone […]

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Eros strikes again in London

May 8, 2014by theromantictraveller Leave a comment

Piccadilly Circus is at the throbbing heart of London and for years visitors have crowded under the statue of Eros, which was originally designed as an angel of mercy but […]

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England, London

Fleeting time

April 28, 2014by theromantictraveller Leave a comment

I spent some of the best Friday evenings of my life walking home from London Bridge where I worked back to my flat in Pimlico in the 1980s. The route […]

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England, London

Plague pits and theatrical ghosts in the West End

April 27, 2014by theromantictraveller Leave a comment

Most of the familiar but somewhat opaque names for different parts of London have real significance if you scratch the surface a bit. The Strand, for instance, is a name […]

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England, London

Did Queen Boadicea catch the Hogwarts Express?

April 23, 2014by theromantictraveller Leave a comment

Some English monarchs have had a rotten deal in terms of their interment. Not all of them ended up in Westminster Abbey. The remains of Richard III were recently found […]

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England, London

Tower of Lies

February 14, 2014by theromantictraveller Leave a comment

As I’m plodding through ‘Wolf Hall’ at the moment I thought I’d have a wander round the Tower of London again to absorb some Tudor atmosphere. It’s not difficult to […]

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England, London

Humbug to commerce and ding dongs

December 12, 2013by theromantictraveller Leave a comment

I decided to try and get into something resembling a Christmas spirit by dropping in to a couple of local fetes at the weekend. The one at Bruce Castle was […]

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Turn Again, Dick Head!

November 29, 2013by theromantictraveller 3 Comments

I was at the Whittington Hospital in Archway last week to discuss what to do about my five kidney stones. One of my neighbours, an elderly Irish lady called Madeleine, […]

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Bridges and Bigots in London

October 21, 2013by theromantictraveller Leave a comment

I went for a meal at a Bengali restaurant on Butler’s Wharf alongside the Thames on Saturday night, for a friend’s wedding. His mum is Turkish, dad Bengali and wife […]

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