Tale of Christmas

The carrot and star anise puree was behaving more like an indoor firework than a vegetable dish to accompany the mandatory brussels sprouts. It had taken a long time to heat up because it was focusing all the heat I gave it on the core of the gloop where it was attempting nuclear fusion. A …

London – Street scenes and views

In the last of this London photo series is a collection of views and street scenes taken while walking around with the family as well as from the 40th floor of the Cheesegrater (Leadenhall Building), which was part of my two day business conference. Unfortunately, it was early morning on a miserable day so the …

London – The Globe and The Marquee Club

The penultimate London post features two very different venues for entertaining the folks. The Globe Theatre is where many of Shakespeare’s plays were first performed. Built in 1599 from the timbers brought across the river from an older theatre, burnt down in 1613 and rebuilt with a tiled instead of thatched roof. Finally closed in …

London – Markets & Chinatown

In the third of the London series we’ll take a look at markets. We visited four; Borough Market – located at the south send of London Bridge and first mentioned in 1276 but thought to date back to 1014 or earlier. Present buildings from mid 1800’s. Traditional role, along with Covent Garden, was selling fruit …

London – Art & Entertainment

Second of the London photo series, these feature the Tate Modern, which is on Bankside in Southwark and Tate Britain, which is over by Westminster Palace. You can catch a river taxi between one and the other. The Tate Britain is better in our opinion as it has a good collection of mainstream modern and …

London – Christmas Lights

First of a few posts featuring photos taken in London on a trip between Dec 3-8th. This one shows the Christmas street decorations – Oxford Street, Regents Street, Bond Street.

Museum of the History of Polish Jews (POLIN) – photo gallery

Warsaw’s most recent museum is located at Ul. Mordechaja Anielewicza 6, on the green square close to the old monument to the ghetto uprising and is dedicated to the history of Jews in Poland. The whole venture was funded partly by the government (construction of the building) and partly by private individuals and institutions (the …