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Showing posts with label London. Show all posts
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Tuesday, May 1, 2012

A favorite place to stay


The Staunton Hotel in London is just across Gower Street from the British Museum. It is very near the University of London on one side and the Theater District on the other. The owner of the hotel greeted us after our three week tour of Ireland and we were a little worn. I needed to find an Internet café in order to email a column into the newspaper and he would hear none of it. He gave me his laptop to use for the week we were there. This is a superior hotel in every way. The best things are the staff, the breakfast and the location. (The HoHo stops across the street).

We did not want to leave, although the low value of the dollar to the pound encouraged us to go.


Monday, April 30, 2012

St. Martin in the Fields

One of our favorite places to worship we registered last time as regular visitors. It is St. Martin in the Fields at Trafalgar Square, London. Great music, excellent preaching and a nice cafe in the crypt (a real one) in the basement. Would not miss a visit while in London.

Tuesday, April 24, 2012

Beefeater stories


Conversation with a Beefeater – Everywhere I go I like to stop and find out about the stories of people. At the Tower of London, I stopped to visit one of the Beefeaters who act and guides and guards at the tower. All of them are military or retired military and most live with their families in the Tower. This particular one was sharing his story and how special it is to do his job. There is great pride in being a symbol of a nation.