This morning at the hotel I sat in my preferred breakfast seat in front of the servery. The two tables there are outside the dining room...

I loved seeing the very sophisticated Petersham Nurseries shop at Covent Garden - I tried to walk in before it even opened! But I was...

That's the gist of what Samuel Johnson said way back in 1777. I couldn't agree more! So when I woke on Saturday to grey skies and...

Picture a chef standing in front of you shucking ice-cold Mersea Island oysters as fast as you can eat them. That was Thursday night,...

I've been looking forward to searching the archives at Kew for so long I could hardly believe that the day had finally arrived. I was so...

The weather in Cork was just brilliant the whole time I was there but today it dawned drizzly, windy and foggy! It wasn't a pea souper...

I've heard so much about Petersham Nurseries that I was determined to see the shop in Covent Garden. These hydrangeas grandiflora were...

Thursday was another miserably ghastly London day! -:) I took the circle line to Green Park, and on my way past, dropped in at the Ritz,...

Like Frida I've had two significant events since I wrote last. On Wednesday I went to Portsmouth, and on Thursday I lost my phone at the...

I almost burst but not quite - 22,000 steps and 16 kilometres. I know because I looked at my watch. It's not easy being a tourist. I...

I've always wanted to go to the Victoria and Albert Museum. It's only a five minute walk from here, so I left home early and wandered the...

I knew from my trip prep that the tube line I'd be using most in London is the circle line - it goes round and round the centre of...

I love London society! I think it has immensely improved. It is entirely composed now of beautiful idiots and brilliant lunatics. Just...

With hanging flower baskets like this? I've suddenly been transported into a game of Monopoly! Mayfair and Pall Mall, The Strand and...

There's a lot to be said for the ease of having a travel agent put together an itinerary for you. On the other hand, from my perspective,...