I love Istanbul. By now, dear reader, you may have noticed a pattern in What I Did On My Holidays – I do cities. I vaguely get the idea of going on holiday to the countryside/mountains/beaches/forests etc., and find all of the above very pretty and pleasant in reasonable doses. But the NHS makes me …
Monthly Archive: August 2009
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Aug
20
Helen
So, I went and saw Helen at Shakespeare’s Globe on the South Bank. I even took my big rain coat, and, with the magic of the big rain coat, it of course was a lovely night and completely and utterly failed to rain. Shakespeare’s Globe is another one of those landmarks that I may have …
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Aug
17
Dennis Severs’ House
Nestled away on 18 Folgate Street, Spittalfields, is a place known as Dennis Severs’ House. It’s a building which contains within its traditional terraced walls various rooms charting the course of one family’s life from the 1700s through to late 1800s, and prides itself on not being a traditional museum, but rather a sort of …
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Aug
16
What I Did On My Holidays – Verona/Aida
First thing to be said about my trip to Verona is this – myself and boyfriend did very much not go and stand under Juliet’s balcony. Because let’s face it, the idea is kinda silly. What we did manage to do was walk for 3 and a half hours in search of a place to …
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Aug
14
Graffiti – European and London
So, I don’t know why, and don’t really know whether it’s an expression of something cultural/political, but as a general impression, I always get the feeling that there is more graffiti in continental Europe than in London. Sure, most of it – as with most of it in London – is the unintelligable scribble of …
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Aug
14
What I Did On My Holidays – via Dubai
Not planning on writing about airports as a general principal, but Dubai International deserves a mention, because I have never transitted through such a ridiculous, amazing, spectacular, silly, over the top cultural melting point as Dubai. Yes, I was transitting, and yes, I was doing it to save cash on my way to somewhere else. …
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Aug
13
What I Did On My Holidays – Seoul
So, I’ve just come back from holiday! And I have a lot to say about it, but I figured that I might as well start on something that I was going to start on ages ago; brief accounts of other places. With my writer’s hat on, I entirely cheer for the idea that urban magic …
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Aug
04
Lord Mayor/Midnight Mayor
Oh yes… did I mention the sequel to A Madness of Angels? So, for many, many hundreds of years there has been an individual in London called the Lord Mayor. In Magna Carta it was set down that the Lord Mayor of London could prevent the king entering within the city walls which at the …
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Aug
04
Blink pt 2.
Once again, I might just post pictures… there are certain things which pictures say faster…
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