In olden days, they navigated by the light of the stars. Today, we find our way by the wifi of the Starbucks. Thusly, Luke and I calculated and recalculated our caffeinated route to Buckingham Palace, where we went to have tea with Queen. We arrived at four o’clock sharp, only to be told by a […]
After an afternoon spent admiring decapitated statues and Zulu headrests (keep your hair styled! keep the bugs out! keep in touch with dead relatives!) at the British Museum, Luke and I went to the Twinings Tea Shop. I should mention now that Luke’s passion for tea far exceeds that of a normal man. Luke’s tea-drive rivals […]
My feet are sore; my knees are tired. Luke and I spent Sunday puzzling through London’s maze of indistinguishable street names – Highbury Place, Highbury Park, Highbury Crescent, Highbury Hill, Highbury Grange, Highbury Terrace, Highbury Terrace Mews, Highbury Station Road – I’m amazed we made it out alive. Eventually, we escaped the Highburys and arrived […]
We’re staying at Cumberland House, which, like all buildings with proper names, is delightful. Well, perhaps not all buildings with proper names. I once lived in a Theodore on 15th Street beneath a bachelor whose favorite drunken pastime was the 3am rearrangement of furniture. I still recall the sight of the bloody tissue he left […]
“Well, if yer not gonna take the Luas,” said the man in the Guinness van, upon hearing that we were ‘walkers,’ “You could follow the Liffey.” “Of course! The Liffey! Thanks for your help,” we said, and Luke and I set off in the direction the Guinness man (Who better to ask directions to the […]
