990998Took a little stroll around Canary Wharf the other day, the new home of the company I work for. It’s very much “pinstripe suit land” — lots of chain stores and upmarket coffee bars — but it does have some great architecture. And once you get outside the boundaries of the financial area there are […] Read More »
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British Beer Festival Pilgrimage
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Taste of London
2005/Food On a sunny summer’s eve we went to Regent’s Park in north London to check out the Taste of London food fair. It wasn’t cheap at £30 a head but that included quite a few food vouchers. You can see what we ate by clicking on the photo. Read More »
Andrew’s Birthday Weekend
2005/Peak District This year’s excursion for Andrew’s 31st birthday was to the Peak District, about 2 hours drive north of London. We hired a car and headed there on Saturday. We spent our first half of the day exploring typical English tourist towns. Someone said to us that Matlock, one of the main towns, was […] Read More »