Cheers,
Randal and I have been on a walking kick. Monday we walked about 5 miles back and forth to Queen Mary University and the Tower Hamlets Archives. Yesterday we walked about 5 miles back and forth to Charing Cross and the …
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Fleet Street, The Strand, Charing Cross and Van Gogh
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Here is a cheery break from The Blitz.
We’re often asked which of our stops along the way have been favorites. My answer is, those where the place is fascinating or the people we meet really great. Some places …
London during the blitz part 1
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A while back now, Randal and I joined a www.walks.com tour called The Blitz. 1n 1969 Randal was a Marine in Vietnam. I have never had to deal with the fears of war. While in Israel we did hear distant bombing, had…
Geffrye Museum
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I took myself to the Geffrye Museum. It was a total adventure as I had to take a bus for the first time by myself! Cruiser friend Sandi had told me to walk to Gracechurch Street and I could catch the 149 to the Geffrye. …
The Philpot Lane mice are repainted!
Repainted mice!!!!!!
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Hip Hip Hooray is what I should say. The Philpot Lane Mice are once again recognizable as mice. Today as I was walking down Cheapside to catch a bus to the Geffrye Museum in Shoreditch, I stopped to check on the…
Little Venice London Canal walk part 1
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I’m trying to catch up on all our past adventures….before I forget most of their best stories. While Singkey was here I decided we all had to hike the Canal Path….and still make it to Evensong at St Paul’s Cathedral t…
Greenwich Part 2
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I’m trying very hard not to have a cold. I have an annoying cough and a runny nose. Yuck. But I have plans for tomorrow and Saturday and lots going on and lots I want to do. So today, I’m having a rest d…
Greenwich with Valerie and Steve part 1
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Sunday Randal and I met up with friends Valerie and Steve for a day in Greenwich. Here’s the story.
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Our friends Valerie and Steve live in Fleet, not so far from Gosport/Portsmouth; our firs…
St Katharine Docks setting for past season episode of New Tricks
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On our way to the Mayflower Pub on Thanksgiving Randal and I stopped at St Mary’s Rotherhithe to look for the grave/marker for Captain Christopher Jones. An episode of the cop show New Tricks was being filmed. I…
Singkey’s teacher from China
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I once wrote about our serendipitous meeting on Tower Bridge with Singkey’s Chinese university teacher Jessica. She and her husband visited DoraMac in September. A few days after Christmas, Jessica and her husband cam…
