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(photo credit: Freda Chan) A friend of Madeleine’s who is a wonderful photographer living in Hong Kong shared a most fascinating montage of shots taken of “steel-folding-door” store-fronts of traditional old-style stalls in the city – if you look carefully you can see the names of cake shops, furniture shops, grocery stalls, fishing tool store, Read more
We at Madeleine’s were in London last October …. And how we do love London in the autumn especially when the weather is great! But which large city in this world has had a book prize every October for the last 50 years? It’s fun to be in London walking around the book shops in Read more
So, we at Madeleine’s love this Oscar Wilde quote that “We are all in the gutter but some of us are looking at the stars”. And we’ve included this into “Madeleine goes to London”. But Oscar, Oscar, where can we find you in London? Flamboyant and witty, the playwright, poet and critic was born in Read more
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
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
Going to an opera performance on a lazy summer day is one of life’s true pleasures, and so we’re sharing below our “top 5” for summer 2016 … What we are looking for? Great quality performances in beautiful outdoor settings over the summer months. With this in mind … be prepared to go to Europe Read more