The alarm wakes me at 6:00 AM. I haul my suitcases down two flights of stairs. By the end of today, I will be very tired of schlepping luggage around. On Inverness Terrace, the road in front of my hotel, I hail a taxi. I ask him to take me to Trafalgar Square to pick …
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January 3, 2000 – Mayfair and Musings
Today, my last day in the UK, I am on a walking tour of London’s affluent Mayfair district. It is not raining as we start out but, by the time we are half-way through the tour, it is pouring and the deluge continues for the rest of the day. The tour, London Walks, starts out …
January 2, 2000 – The Millennium Starts Here!
“The Millennium starts here!” That’s what a plaque says outside the Royal Observatory in Greenwich. Greenwich is the official home of world time and the perfect place for a Millennial experience. But first, I am off to the Millennium Dome. I take the Jubilee line from Bond Street to North Greenwich. It is a shiny …
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January 1, 2000 – Happy New Year!
I go through all my guidebooks looking for something that is open today. There is not much. British Museum. Closed. Imperial War Museum. Closed. Dickens House. Closed. National Portrait Gallery. Closed. The Museum of the Moving Image is closed until 2003. The BBC is open by appointment, but I only get an answering machine. Around …
December 31, 1999 – Millennial New Year!
Musings It seems strange that we are at the end of a millennium; or yet still at the beginning of a new one. I remember when I was about 6, a teacher asked the class what they thought it would be like in the year 2000. I remember thinking I would be 40 and I …
December 30, 1999 – The Amazing Soane Museum
It is raining today, the first time since I’ve been in London. After getting coffee and checking my email at the internet café, I take the Central line from Queensway to Holburn where I walk to the Soane house/museum at Lincoln’s Inns Field. It is a unique and perplexing museum. Sir John Soane was an …
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December 29, 1999 – In Which I See the Night Sky of London from Primrose Hill
It is close to noon by the time I get to Harrods. I want to buy some Stilton for Brian and have it shipped. A woman at the check-out counter assures me they will ship it and gives me information on weight, price, and all the procedures. But when I go get the Stilton and …
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December 28, 1999 – The Royal Mews, Albert Memorial, and National Theater
I don’t sleep well. The room is hot and the bed small. At about 6:00 AM, it occurs to me that I can push the two small twin beds together and this gives me a little more room. While eating breakfast I write a few thank you notes hoping to mail them today. Alas, it’s …
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December 27, 1999 – Farewells and Pickpocketers
I eat my last breakfast at Glenelg and finish packing. Caroline pops her head in to tell me she is leaving for Wales at noon, but that Tony has a kidney stone and is staying home. Jake is going with her to Wales and Vanessa is available here if Tony needs to go to the …
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December 26, 1999 – Boxing Day Atop the Malvern Hills
Today is Boxing Day, which is nearly a bigger holiday in Britain than Christmas. Its origins have to do with “boxing up” the Christmas leftovers and giving them to the poor. Tony and Caroline have a big dinner today away from Glenelg with extended family. I am spending the day with Dean, Barbara, Ari, and …
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