Category London
Lunch in Oxford
In 2003 I went to the opera in Rennes, France, and during intermission met an English guy roughly my age named Ian. He had studied literature at Cambridge and had come to France to visit a professor and see the opera. He offered a the floor of his flat if I ever came to London, […]
Walking the London Wall
My apartment is on the edge of what they call “The City”, which is short for The City of London. Nowadays it’s the financial center of London, full of shiny modern skyscrapers (which may or may not look like pickles and/or walkie talkies), but back in the day this was it — THE city of […]
Sunshine and retail therapy
After a week of dreary grey weather, Saturday — finally — was gorgeous. Since I was weary of house-hunting, and since all of my sunglasses have long since been stolen and/or misplaced, I decided to go sunglass shopping near Covent Garden. I may have come home with more than one pair…
Ballet swarms and male bodies
To make up for the disastrously uninteresting Friday night, I got tickets on Saturday to see a performance by the Scottish Ballet at Sadler’s Wells, which is apparently London’s leading venues for dance. The program was very exciting. It offered pieces by two choreographers whose pieces I’ve seen before and really enjoyed: First a piece […]
An awkward first Friday
First Friday in London, I’ve got this world-class city at my fingertips and what do I do? Umm, well . . . At about 7:00pm, I pulled my head out of my work emails and realized that despite the glorious sunlight still streaming over the city (we’re farther north than Calgary, so the days are […]
The walk to work
I went in to the office this afternoon to try and make some headway on the 300+ emails that had piled up over the past few days. It was fun to pass this on the way: And even more fun to see this immediately next door: I love that juxtaposition of era.
Day 1, or The Longest Nap
You would have thought that, having gone to bed at 8:00pm last night, I wouldn’t have had any trouble waking up this morning. And I didn’t, really. I woke right up when the alarm went off at 6:00am. I had breakfast and thought about launching into my list of Things To Do. But the weather […]
The adventure begins
Actually, the adventure began at the end of March when I accepted the offer to move to London to become (more or less) the European counterpart to what I had been doing in the US. But today I finally got on the plane with a one way ticket and a two-year work visa in my […]
A More Gentlemanlike Manner 