Monday, 24 August 2015

A stroll down the architectural ages of London — or a few of them

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Architecture does not really tell us much about the quality of life it surrounds or encloses — A palace may be a gilded frame for a ...
Sunday, 10 May 2015

New vistas around old Father Thames

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Through a great city like London the River Thames has always been a source of renewal and of escape. Single drops of the clear ra...
Monday, 19 January 2015

We're back ... with Blabmate

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We must begin by saying sorry to those of you, if there are any, who have been wondering where we have been and why we have not written ...
Saturday, 25 January 2014

The language of London…….the babel of London

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English is, of course, the official and essential language of London. Many other languages are spoken, around seven hundred, but witho...
Sunday, 22 December 2013

America's secret Dirty Wars are exposed in Kilburn and the Rolling Stoned cheer everyone up in Putney… what a world…..

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Up in The Lexi cinema , about the size of a small suburban front room, something very big is revealed by a documentary film called 'Di...
Wednesday, 4 December 2013

Power corrupts us as we tour the Houses of Parliament, jazz revives us as we stay late at Ronnie Scotts jam session…..

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Who wouldn't be impressed and overawed by the gothic splendour of the British Houses of Parliament? Elena and her best friend, Ta...
Sunday, 24 November 2013

Luxury and lunch at Muscat's most magnificent ministry....well, hotel, palace and temple

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Our taxi slowed respectfully as it passed though the elegant entrance of the Al Bustan Palace Hotel . The lawns rolled and stretched away...