For those not subscribed to my travel email list, morgue at large, here are links to posts about my recent two-week trip to the UK:
London: “..wandering towards the west end from Liverpool Street station on my first morning back – here I’m in a Bangladeshi street market, now I’m surrounded by families come to London to photograph the sights, now around the corner I’m in the square mile with pin-striped twenty-somethings discarding cigarettes, now edging back out of the City and I’m surrounded by white van men scoffing bacon butties and reading the Daily Sport…”
Winchester for the wedding: “It’s a beautiful town, with ancient buildings, King Arthur’s Round Table (built in the 13th century or so), Jane Austen’s house, and a meadow walk that inspired Keats ode “To Autumn” – but how could any of those attractions possibly compare to the sheer joy to be had at that wedding?”
Edinburgh: “I admit it – when the train came rolling into Edinburgh and I looked up and saw the Salisbury Crags and Calton Hill and the Jacob’s Ladder stair – my heart was beating faster”
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