So - I haven't updated this blog in months, and sadly this will be the last post. It's not that I'm no longer a Yankee, but I...

It's not often that I get to travel for a client - and by travel I mean to go a place I haven't been before and spend some quality t...

Last weekend was the final bank holiday weekend of the year in the UK, which meant it was the perfect time to fulfil a travel goal that has ...

'What can I say?' is an excellent existential declaration of resignation. It is second only to the Russian declaration that translat...

An interregnum (plural interregna or interregnums) is a period of discontinuity of a government, organization, or social order. Which is to ...

Once upon a time when I lived in New York, I had the distinct pleasure of reading Paul Auster's The New York Trilogy , a series of detec...

I don’t take much stock in ley lines , the supposed alignments between ancient sites (and in some modern mythology, where the planet’s energ...

Avast mateys. It not be a secret that I enjoy all things pirate-y, so it be with great pleasure that I discovered the London Pirate Festival...

Wow have I been bad about updating this blog. I offer two excuses: work has been busy, and perhaps bigger - I've been immersed in a pair...

Not forgot really, just too damn busy to blog at the moment. Paris was beautiful. Gorgeous. And I mean beautiful in the truest sense of the ...

On Friday night we went to the London Symphony Orchestra's performance of Rachmaninoff's Third Piano Concerto and Tchaikovsky's ...

Like many Londoners, I both love and hate various aspects of the public transport here. I love how efficient it is (most of the time), the h...

We've been booking some holidays and planning out the rest of the year. Here's what we've got so far: Confirmed: Long weekend in...

I had a post written about Shrove Tuesday and pancakes and how it was a distinctly British custom when I had the good sense to ask my mother...

The other day while driving to St. Pancras station I passed a building on North Road I've never seen before: a white clock tower set far...

In my continued quest to learn more about my new home and its various gastro delights, I took the opportunity to experiment a bit while the ...

It was the original, it spawned a worldwide Twestival movement and tonight it's back. I'm heading out to Shoreditch with other blog...

I don't watch a lot of television as a rule, but the other day I had The Simpsons on in the background. The episode was the 9th season ...

We're kind of museumed out (we hit the Natural History Museum last weekend, which I meant to write about but never did) so were looking ...

Just adding a couple of links to the sidebar. It's not often I find two cool London blogs in one day, but thanks to Jaz's writeup on...

Congrats! You're about 100% knowledgable of fantasy worlds and/or London Tube stations.   I certainly hope you made this score without ...

If you're looking for a good weekend travel break right now, there's probably few better than Iceland. Lastminute.com did me an exc...