London
The London Underground
Coming from a city with only a very limited rail service, I’ve always been fascinated with subway systems in general and the London Underground in particular. My friend Molly and I, backpacking in 2004, were in love with the Underground, finding it the easiest, most logical and most charming way around. We weren’t [...]
The Great English Airport Farce
Airports are generally a disaster in most countries, the sorts of places where you buy $7 coffees and lose your sense of humour, get treated like and idiot or a terrorist depending on your skin tone and don’t tell the staff to fuck off, as dearly as you’d like to.
Every country’s airports have their special [...]
Hatfield
And now for some undeniable glamour…
A tourist is unlikely to end up in Hatfield, just outside London, unless to visit Hatfield House, where Queen Elizabeth I grew up. Since it´s closed until spring (and with it the only park of any size in Hatfield) I can´t comment on that, but the following tourist [...]
Cheap Night out in London!
Although I´ve spent very limited time in London, I would have thought the above statement was an impossibility. London is, after all, one of the most expensive cities in the world, and I´ve always been shocked in the past how 200 pounds can easily dissolve in a week, even when you´re not paying for [...]
Castley Bits, part 2
Speaking of anachronistic buildings next to each other in Europe, obviously a far greater occurrence than in North America.
The tower of London and Londn City Hall facing one another across the Thames are an example of positive contrast. The modernism of the City Hall does not take away from the grisly dignity of the [...]
Castley Bits, part 1
A friend I once travelled with squealed with delight at the prospect of the Tower of London seen from across the river, and came out with the immortal splutter of “Ooooh….Castley Bits,” which became some of a slogan for the entire trip. The trip itself was a typical enough Canadians-backpacking-in-Europe type of adventure, [...]
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