I lately find myself party to occasions where my friends – who share the same background with me and, like me, deeply loath socialism in…
I recognized in the last couple of weeks that I very much enjoy walking the streets of New York City. Even such tourist-infested locations as…
Lack of inspiration and general preoccupation with other matters do not leave me much room for blogging these days. In lieu of any entertaining or…
As I have been wandering around the neighborhood area to rack up steps on my pedometer, I frequently find myself on the paths of the…
From my little backlog of pictures taken with the expressed goal of eventually being published here on the blog, here is a view of the…
I am not very much inspired to write anything at the moment, so instead I am picking an item from my little backlog of random…
This is one of the most-fashionable streets in St John’s Wood in Northwest London. I took a few pictures of it with my pocket-cam when…
This could be a street in any number of American suburbs or smaller towns. Yes, the cars are parked somewhat in the opposite direction, but…
Continuing our walk along the Thames Path (which we started here), we can more closely see the fine buildings at the Blackfriars Bridge end of…
The Thames Path along Southbank, from the London Eye (seen in the previous installment) to the London Bridge, is one of my favorite walking routes…
Westminster Bridge is always chock-full of tourists and you often need to step into the roadway to cross it. However, it offers brilliant views over…
Continuing with our walk around London sights (previous entry is here), we come to the Parliament Square. Despite the fact that it is one of…
We have seen dozens of royal palaces around Europe, and the Buckingham Palace in London is one of the outwardly dullest of them, grey, blocky,…
Walking along The Mall (which we entered via Admiralty Arch) towards the Buckingham Palace, we leave the lovely St James Park on our left. Even…
One of the streets converging on Trafalgar Square (the previous entry in the series) is The Mall, which runs straight to the Queen Victoria Memorial…
On to more famous sights now (the previous entry in the series is here). Trafalgar Square, in my view, is the center of London, where…
The next installment of our virtual walk around London (the previous post in the series is here) has just one picture, of the corner of…
Continuing the tour started in this post, here are a few shots made in Bloomsbury, a fashionable residential area which is home to the British…
A couple of weeks ago, Natasha and I spent a gorgeous Saturday – the first truly great day of the year weather-wise – walking a…
I’m currently on a downswing of my blogging activity sinusoid, for no apparent reason. While I’m recharging my blogging batteries, I figured I can at…