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Headed Home from London!

July 5, 2018

Headed Home from London!

Camp Corgi

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Heading home from London! We leave from Heathrow in about three hours, 15 days and two hours after we arrived. And after 14+ hours of travel we’ll be plenty tired and the 12 limbs with whom we share our lives will be out of their ever-loving minds!*

Once, I traveled for two weeks. In 1986. Otherwise, it’s been a week every few years, and shorter trips in between. Bitten I am, although plenty of work got done from afar and plenty more awaits me on Friday morning.

The Trip

Places and Activities

Direction to The Larder*

We spent seven of our 15 nights in London, two each in Killarney (Ireland) and Cheltenham

Bath, Callooh Callay, Cheltenham, Corgis, Cork, Dishoom, Dublin, Killarney, Kinsale, london, No. 15 Great Pulteney, Shoreditch, Sir John Soanes, Tate, The Lieutenant of Inishmore, trips, Underground

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Greetings from London!

June 22, 2018

Mark Rubin

Greetings from London!

Mark Rubin

We arrived on Wednesday. Hanging out, so far, with a visit to the Tate Modern on Friday to see The EY Exhibition: Picasso 1932 – Love, Fame, Tragedy. Before, we’ll be doing an Inn of Court walking tour, with a quick stop at Sir John Soane’s Museum to see a postmodern British exhibit. (The Tate Modern has a lovely bar on level 6, where one can purchase a fine martini. For a city steeped in gin, martinis are damn near non-existent, and when one can be found it’s often marginal. I expect that we’ll be enjoying a pre-dinner respite soon after we see the Picassos.)

The London Medical Architecture Tour

On Thursday we did

James Comey, Jeremy Benthem, london, Picasso, Sir John Soane''s Museum, Tate Modern, University College London

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London—Saturday and Sunday

May 19, 2017

Mark Rubin

London—Saturday and Sunday

London Saturday

40,802 steps, on Saturday.* Yep, you read that right! Everybody approaches a new city differently. I got many “Do the bus tour” commands. Old friends FF and GF brought their Rick Steves guidebooks, along with leftover money and Oyster cards, and a strong recommendation for ear buds and the Steves’ app on my phone. (I read the books before I left. Very helpful! I wish I could figure out how to use the wireless headphones I bought, so I would be prepared for a virtual tour.) From others I got “see this” and “you must see that.” Spoiler alert, and I do feel like a failure, really: never got to Harrods.

Alas,

Big Ben, Buckingham Palace, Dukes Bar, Hyde Park, london, National Gallery of Art. National Portrait Gallery, St. Paul’s Cathedral, Tate Britain, Tate Modern, Tower of London, Westminster Abbey

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London—The Prequel and My First Day

May 15, 2017

Mark Rubin

London—The Prequel and My First Day

I learned something when I wrote this post: The United Kingdom includes Great Britain and Northern Ireland, and Great Britain includes England, Scotland, and Wales. So, I’m writing about my visit to the U.K. although, in fact, I never left England.*

My trip came together pretty quickly. My GF, LB, planned a solo trip. Still, she graciously agreed to let me accompany her for a chunk of her holiday. She went ahead, to places on the Continent. We met up in London a few days after my arrival, and we returned home together.

I flew to London on British Airways, non-stop from Phoenix. People have been raving about this flight to me for years.

Amos Tversky, British Airways, Daniel Kahneman, Heathrow, heuristic, london

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