Recently a friend of mine lamented,  “. . . for the first time in 18 years I’m suffering from a bad case of  “island fever”.  I so wish I still lived in London!” I know how she feels. I am a Londoner too . . . sometimes. For quite a long time I’ve been surviving extremes of culture and weather by popping London into my  travelling merry-go-round circuit. In the past, my choices were most often populated with Canadian horror stories involving ice storms, impassable roads and abandoned winter streets.  Conversely, when hanging out in the South Pacific, I was occasionally blinded … Continue reading Where to find art in London? You are kidding . . . right?

  I thought that it was the end. With it’s emblematic heroine, Amy Winehouse, now long gone, the recent early morning fire in Camden sparked my fear that this was going to be a catastrophe for this youthful and trendy area. It is the fourth largest tourist destination in London and now it joins the horrible line-up of this year’s fire victims. It follows the harrowing residential 24-storey Grenfell Tower fire in Kensington that killed an estimated 80 people, and the more recent Marco Polo condo fire in Honolulu that left 3 dead and several injured.       Even … Continue reading Camden town was burning down, burning down . . .