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Plane views: London City Airport
Blog: velvet escape's blog - 13 November 2009
London City Airport (LCY) is my absolute favourite of all the airports serving London. It’s small (getting through it is a breeze) and well-connected to the City (via the efficient Docklands Light Rail). One of the highlights (for me, at least) of flying to LCY is the approach. All flights from the European continent approach [...]
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How to have a Cheap Holiday or Backpacking experience in London
Blog: Cheap Backpacking in Bulgaria - 11 November 2009
London’s prices are as mad as their cabbies! In this post I will cover how to have a cheap holiday or backpacking experience without going bonkers in the process. In this post I will cover: - How to get to London for cheap - Cheap and ree accomodation in London - Eating Cheaply in London - Seeing London Cheap [...]
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Dragon Castle, Elephant & Castle
Blog: An American in London - 8 November 2009
A month ago, Jon and I went to see the highly-entertaining (popular, even) Pop Life exhibit at the Tate Modern, and afterwards, we somehow reasoned that because Elephant & Castle was so “close by,” we should try out Dragon Castle for dinner, which TimeOut loved. So we hopped on the Northern Line at London Bridge and [...]
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The Lady's Tale
Blog: A Lady in London - 7 November 2009
On Saturday my friend Emily and I went to Canterbury, the setting of Geoffrey Chaucer's Canterbury Tales and home of the Canterbury Cathedral.We left London's Victoria Station in the morning and were greeted by beautiful blue skies when we arrived in Canterbury at noon. We walked along the old city wall and through a park, then weaved through the crowds of Christmas shoppers in the pedestrian zone to get to our main destination: the Cathedral.
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Lady of the Season
Blog: A Lady in London - 7 November 2009
With Christmas just over a week away and this being the first Christmas I will spend away from my family, I feel like I should write a bit about the holiday season in London.The first outdoor decorations I noticed were some massive lights on Regent Street. At first I mistook them for larger-than-life atomic models, but then I realized that they were supposed to be giant 3D snowflakes.
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Lady at the Zoo
Blog: A Lady in London - 7 November 2009
When I was five years old my family took a trip to London. One day my mother decided to take my brother and me to the London Zoo, so we spent the morning at the grocery store getting picnic food together. We chose sandwiches, chips, and cookies, and then headed to the beverage aisle for sodas. I remember staring up at the tall wall of cans, which were arranged by flavor. For some reason none of them had labels, so we just guessed what they were by their color.
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Lady and the Haggis
Blog: A Lady in London - 7 November 2009
Fair fa' your honest, sonsie face,Great chieftain o' the pudding-race!Aboon them a' yet tak your place,Painch, tripe, or thairm:Weel are ye wordy o'a graceAs lang's my arm.-"Address to a Haggis", Robert Burns, 1786
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Lady Goes to Market
Blog: A Lady in London - 7 November 2009
One of my favorite things about San Francisco was the Ferry Plaza Farmers Market. On sunny Saturday mornings the Ferry Building and its outskirts were packed with stalls selling everything from local artisan cheeses and fresh crusty bread to warm crimson strawberries and brilliant orange tangerines. Inside there were stores selling wild mushrooms, rich chocolates, perfect story-book cakes, and delicious gelato.
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Lady at the Races
Blog: A Lady in London - 7 November 2009
The Tuesday before the beginning of Lent is a big deal in many cultures. Brazil has parties and parades for Carnival, Louisiana has beads and Bourbon Street for Mardi Gras, and Britain has...well...pancake races for Shrove Tuesday.
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Lady Quixote
Blog: A Lady in London - 7 November 2009
I have had a five-weekend hiatus from traveling outside of England. That's not to say that I haven't been busy with moving into a new flat, winning a modeling competition, and exploring more of the English countryside. But. It still feels a little strange to have been in town for such a long time.
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Lady in Stokey
Blog: A Lady in London - 7 November 2009
When I first started dating my boyfriend he was the proud owner of not one, but two gas guzzling SUVs. One was for the hour-long commute to work every day, and the other, a bright red 1972 Chevy Blazer, was for driving around San Francisco on the weekends. Country music required.One night shortly after we met, my boyfriend and I found ourselves outside of Harry's Bar in Pacific Heights at 2am with neither of his SUVs in sight and no prospects of finding a taxi.
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Lady at the End
Blog: A Lady in London - 7 November 2009
A couple months ago one of my good friends in Hampstead sent me a Washington Post article about off-the-beaten-path neighborhoods in London. Now that it’s summer and the tourist crowds are beating the usual paths in Soho and Westminster, my boyfriend and I decided it was time to explore another non-touristy neighborhood in our new city.To that end, the other evening we headed off to explore Crouch End, an area to the east of Hampstead and its sister neighborhood, Highgate.
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Lady and the City
Blog: A Lady in London - 7 November 2009
On Friday night I went to see the Sex and the City movie. I won't lie; I never watched the show very much when it was on the air. However, I still wanted to see the film just to know what all the fuss was about.While watching the movie I was a bit surprised at how little the film focused on "the city," i.e. New York. While the principal characters were based there, significant parts of the film also took place in Mexico and California. So much for the Big Apple.
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Lady of Autumn
Blog: A Lady in London - 7 November 2009
The other morning I awoke to a beautiful autumn day with bright blue skies and crisp fall air. In other words, it was the perfect morning for a walk in Hampstead Heath.
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Lady y La Comida
Blog: A Lady in London - 7 November 2009
Every good Californian knows the cardinal rule of Mexican food: never eat it outside of Mexico and the states that border it. Even if one has been away from home for a long, long time and is lonely and desperate and craving a good helping of carne asada or tacos al pastor, one must be strong and not give in to temptation.
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Lady Fawkes
Blog: A Lady in London - 7 November 2009
On November 5, 1605, a man named Guy Fawkes was arrested in London. His crime? He was about to set off explosives in an attempt to kill King James I and the Protestant aristocracy. The incident quickly became known as the Gunpowder Plot.
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Lady and the Roast
Blog: A Lady in London - 7 November 2009
With Thanksgiving rapidly approaching and the U.S. election taking place today, my mind has been preoccupied with the land across the pond lately. But it hasn't always been that way. Ever since I moved to London last year I've been trying to experience as many unique English traditions as I can. From the bizarre Shrove Tuesday Pancake Races to the upcoming Bonfire Night celebrations, I've tried to take part as best a foreigner can.
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Lady Ramsay
Blog: A Lady in London - 7 November 2009
Every Tuesday night since I moved to London I've had a dinner date. It's okay, you can tell my boyfriend. He knows about it. In fact, he goes with me. One of my friends from San Francisco who moved to London just before I did arranges a Tuesday dinner at a different restaurant each week. Every Tuesday any number of people attends, and I have gotten to know some of them very well over the last 50-odd weeks.Last night was not just any Tuesday dinner night. It was the one-year anniversary of the beginning of what we now call TGIT. It called for celebration.
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Lady Goes to the Dogs
Blog: A Lady in London - 7 November 2009
I want a dog. Preferably a puppy. I'm not terribly picky about the breed, but I do like large dogs. And playful ones. A large, playful puppy would be ideal.
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Lady in Madrid in London
Blog: A Lady in London - 7 November 2009
With the credit crunch in full swing and corporate bigwigs getting in trouble for overly-lavish vacations, this week I decided to bring my foreign holiday to me. How did I do it? I went to Madrid without leaving central London.A business contact of mine invited me to an event at the Victoria & Albert Museum called "Now Madrid: The Christmas City". The event was sponsored by the City Council of Madrid and Madrid's fashion industry, and was intended to showcase Spain's capital and the spring and summer 2009 collections from Spain's top fashion designers.
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Ladylebone
Blog: A Lady in London - 7 November 2009
Since I moved to London last year I've made a point of getting around to lots of different neighborhoods. I have explored the city from Notting Hill to Muswell Hill, Regent's Park to Richmond. I have meandered through Barnes Common and Clapham Common and I have dined on Hampstead High Street and Islington High Street.
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Lady and Lord's
Blog: A Lady in London - 7 November 2009
As part of my duties as the Face of Ascot, last night I attended the Pride of Racing Awards at Lord's Cricket Ground. The event consisted of a champagne reception, a dinner, an awards ceremony for the unsung heroes of the horse racing industry, and a charity auction in aid of Racing Welfare.Having never been to Lord's before, I was surprised to find that it was only ten minutes from where I live. I probably could have walked there had I not been wearing an evening gown and 5-inch heels. I took a taxi instead.
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Lady at the Party
Blog: A Lady in London - 7 November 2009
When I first moved to Hampstead I spent awhile working my way through all of the local bakeries, tea houses, and coffee shops trying to find the best one. The quality and atmosphere varied widely; there was the old-but-well-loved Coffee Cup; the uber-pink, cupcake-filled Tea Cup, (yes, the names are very creative); the hyper-corporate Starbucks and its English counterpart, Cafe Nero; and the seemingly-never-open Chaiwalla, among others.
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Lady at the Show
Blog: A Lady in London - 7 November 2009
The other night I went with a group of friends to see a play at Shakespeare's Globe Theater on the Thames. Liberty, a three-hour marathon set against the backdrop of the post-French Revolution Reign of Terror, could only be described as...well...long.
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Lady at the Lanesborough
Blog: A Lady in London - 7 November 2009
My Glaswegian grandmother drank tea by the bucketful. Actually, she drank it by the cupful. But she drank buckets of it. While it never struck me as particularly odd that my mother drank five cups of coffee every morning, my grandmother's afternoon tea habit seemed bizarrely unnatural. I remember watching her sip cup after cup of the stuff as I sat with eyes wide as the saucer she placed her English Breakfast-filled teacup on, wondering how on earth anyone could drink so much tea.
