London

The London of gutters, stars, fantasy stories, acrostic poems, and Harry Potter

 

We at Madeleine Travels love the “lower ground floor” flats in London.  While Oscar Wilde urges us to see stars from the gutters, we can certainly glimpse through to the partially subterranean living and dining rooms through the gutters in London (see Madeleine goes to London)! Might the Brits’ subterranean living tradition be related to Read more

Celebrate the best Shakespearean concoctions in London this summer and autumn

 

As we celebrate the 400th anniversary of Shakespeare’s death this year, there are more than the usual amount of Shakespearean activities in London this summer. One of the most interesting is Henry V at the Open Air Theatre in Regents Park with Michelle Terry in the title role; as the Financial Times put it, “[I]t’s hard to Read more