After a long day trading agony for tedium, we awoke in Copenhagen at 2:30. We’re staying with our friend Kelton Minor at Egmont, a student cooperative. It’s kind of like a college dorm, but in Denmark, so everyone is so beautiful it hurts to look at them. Luke being sensitive, Kelton took us to a […]
“Southern regrets to inform you that their 11:45 Gatwick Express has been delayed.” “Uh oh.” We hadn’t left much room for error that morning. “Southern regrets to inform you that their 12:15 Gatwick Express has been delayed.” “Now it’s at 12:15?” Luke and I were watching the London Overground timetables in Victoria Station. Every one […]
“This is an authentic 13th Century carving,” said Paul Hyams, “and I know it is because I saw it done myself.” The recently-retired Cornell professor has all the dryness of an hourglass, a sharply British wit that would’ve made him an excellent screenwriter, but instead led him (tragically) down the path of academia. Hyams was […]
There’s something wonderful about meeting old friends in new places. You are you and they are they and there you all are, a thousand miles away from where you met a thousand years ago. I had the pleasure, yesterday, of meeting a number of old compadres in London’s East End. The first, Zoya, an artist […]
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 […]
