I wanted to love dinner at Sea Containers. The room is good-looking, the South Bank outside is all river and lamplight, and our table looked across the Thames to the dome of …
England
Most of us know Elizabeth I only as the powerful queen she became. The Virgin Queen. Gloriana. The pale, jewelled figure in the Phoenix portrait, a woman who ran England on her …
- London
In the Footsteps of Henry VIII: Palaces, the Tower and His Grave
by Bubblyby Bubbly 11 min readI expected to be charmed. Henry VIII is the king everyone knows, the one from the rhyme, the giant standing square in the famous portrait. I went round the places that carry …
I did not expect Rome to have reached this far. I knew the Romans came to Britain. I had just never pictured them building a spa this far from home, in a …
- London
The Brass Rail at Selfridges: Is London’s Oldest Salt Beef Bar Worth It?
by Bubblyby Bubbly 8 min readSome nights you just want comfort food. It was a cold evening in early December, I had spent a few hours in Selfridges, and I had not booked anywhere. Selfridges in December …
I had Westminster Abbey near the top of my London list, and the Abbey had other plans. The day I went, it was closed to visitors. Catherine, the Princess of Wales, holds …