London has its grand underview, too. At Spitalfields great public weekend market, the hundreds of individual stalls offered everything from furniture, antiques, clothes, ethnic arts & crafts, small appliances, Scot wools & Cotswold wools, to nuts and bolts, and all at prices you couldn’t afford not to buy. The Sunday morning Columbia Road Flower Market [...]

Food, glorious food.
The trip almost made me a foodie. Simple meat and potatoes is so not in anymore. If you are what you eat, as the axiom claims, I would be quite another person, following my recent rich & famous diet. However, I like to consider the concept of food as a social phenomenon, in [...]

Our next stop was to Jo Malone, parfumier par excellence. Her perfumes include the essence of Provence (among many others) in her French line, sophisticated, attractive scents to die for. I found my signature scent, through a process of mixed essences being rubbed into the skin of the hands. Visiting this elegant little boutique, which [...]

" When a man is tired of London he is tired of life; for there is in London all that life can afford.  "        
– Samuel Johnson, in Boswell’s Life

Although I’m usually not much of a shopper, a recent trip to London was an experience in shopping and eating as a kind of high [...]