Paul and Ellen's 2025 cruise |
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London misc.
Shopping
Eating
Sundry
Why, O nymph, O why display
Your beauty in such disarray?
Is it decent, is it just,
To so conventional a bust?
Most of the bodies have been removed!
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Shopping |
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| Royal Arcade, opened in 1879, has changed little in the intervening years and is a rare opportunity to experience a genuine Victorian arcade as it was intended. |
Neal & Palmer specializes in bespoke morning suits, white tie evening tails, waistcoats, dress shirts and top hats. It's in the Piccadilly Arcade, opened in 1909, bombed during WWII and not fully restored until 1957. | |||
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| Also in the Piccadilly Arcade, The Armoury of St. James's deals in ceremonial and royal presentation items and historic objects. | Emmett London outside on Jermyn Street displayed shirts with a 1960's "Flower Power" look. | |||
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| Dinner in the Royal Automibile Club with our dear friend and former New York neighbor, Marilyn. | We went to Chinatown twice. The food was great. | |||
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| Rowley's steakhouse on Jermyn Street opened 49-years ago. We ordered delish fish. Our waiter was American. | Fortnum and Mason's marzipan fruits wree fetching but we only bought teas and ginger biscuits. | |||
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| Our cup of tea at the Orangery at Kensington Palace! It was constructed in 1705 for Queen Anne. | ||||
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| London’s oldest restaurant, Rules, established 1798, is on Maiden Lane, where the French writer Voltaire stayed in exile from Paris and the painter J.M.W. Turner was born. | We didn't realize at the time but Paul's namesake bakery-café has 750 locations, 31 in the UK, more than half in France. | |||
Sundry |
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| Gloucester Road tube station gecko-gator art installation. | Big Ben en route to the Churchill War Rooms. | |||
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| In the Churchill War Rooms we spotted The Most Refulgent Order of the Star of Nepal, an award given to Churchill in 1961. "Refulgent" means radiant. So why did Mussolini get one in 1935? | Yeoman Warders of the Tower of London after a tough day at the Tower. | |||
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| We took a tour of Royal Albert Hall, had Afternoon Tea in Coda Restaurant upstairs and posed in front of a collage of past performers/speakers like Verdi, the Beatles, Elton John, Winston Churchill and the Dalai Lama. Opened in 1871 by Queen Victoria, it was built posthumously in honor of Prince Albert. The design was inspired by ruined Roman amphitheaters. | ||||
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| The Arthur Sullivan (of Gilbert and Sullivan fame) Memorial in Embankment Gardens has been described as "the most erotic in London" and inspired a rhyme on that theme: Why, O nymph, O why display Your beauty in such disarray? Is it decent, is it just, To so conventional a bust? |
Duchy House on the Strand is a 19th century building used as a dorm for Courtauld Institute students. The insignia (which I enlarged on the right) is a beehive and motto, Nothing Without Labour. We wonder if that refers to the Labour Party! | |||
| Café in the Crypt is in the basement of the church, St Martin-in-the-Fields. Most of the bodies have been removed! |
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