Locations from the Blog
A map! (Another map). I’ve tried to put the locations on the map referred to in the blog posts. Click on a location pin and […]
Month: August 2022
Queen Anne’s Gate: Higgledy-Piggledy in SW1
Apparently the expression “higgledy-piggledy” is not much known in the US; my use of the phrase to an American tour group as we passed a […]
The Statue of General Wolfe, Greenwich Park
WHAT: Statue of James Wolfe WHERE: The Royal Observatory, Greenwich (map) BY WHOM: Robert Tait McKenzie WHEN: 1930 From the statue of James Wolfe, next […]
The Wondrous Pelicans of St James’s Park
Oh, a wondrous bird is the pelican!His bill holds more than his belican.He takes in his beakFood enough for a week.But I’ll be darned if […]
The South Bank Lion
For the past several months I’ve been taking groups of cruise passengers on a Winston Churchill tour – five days encompassing Chartwell, Bletchley, Blenheim, the […]
An American Patriot?: Benedict Arnold in London
Americans are genuinely surprised by how little the Brits know or, indeed, care about what they call the Revolutionary War and what we call the […]