Oh Yes
The top of Charing Cross Road is still undergoing a lot of building work, largely due to the forthcoming new railway line, and I did feel a little sad to […]
Treadwell’s, a Magical Bookshop
Store Street, in Bloomsbury, used to house offices of the British Library, and is now home to Treadwells book store, founded in 2003. The only word to describe this shop […]
A is for… Analphabetic
The Merriam-Webster online dictionary defines analphabetic as lacking in education or the knowledge gained from books, and as one of my favourite literary characters commented: “To the uneducated, an A […]
Melancholy Moscow
I have just returned from a brief trip to Moscow (October 2012). The weather there was bitterly cold, something it happened to share with China which was having its first […]
Travel with Intent 