When I say fish and chips, it typically refers to a dish featuring freshly battered cod or haddock fried in vegetable oil, paired with thick-cut, floury chips. To eat it like a true Londoner, drench your meal in salt and malt vinegar, and add sides like mushy peas, tartar sauce, or a pickled gherkin. In… Read More Fish and chips?
It’s Saturday night as I write this, and we have spent nearly our first full day in London, UK. I actually left Honolulu on Wednesday night after an extremely busy day, including having an eye injection in the morning, a session with my amigas in Spanish, and a dentist’s appointment in the late afternoon. With… Read More We are in London!
Cattywompus. Death warmed over. Those were two of the old-fashioned but endearing terms my husband Carl used to use which describes my state of jet lag right now. I had a 7:00 am flight out of Honolulu to San Francisco, and then to London. I told my taxi driver to pick me up at 5:00… Read More Cattywompus. Death warmed over.
Even though we faced another hot, muggy day, Joan Ishibashi and I toured Kew Gardens today, one of the largest botanical gardens in the world. As we had seen in Green Park near Buckingham Palace, the large grassy areas, normally lush green and verdant, were shockingly dry and brown. News of the heat wave and… Read More Kew Gardens
It was only after I had been here a couple of days that I was contacted through Facebook Messenger, completely by surprise! I did not know these people were in London at this time! Zen Kuriyama is doing research on the composer Gerald Finzi at the Royal Academy of Music. Today was actually only… Read More I didn’t know you were in London!
I left Warsaw at noon yesterday for the Chopin Airport and couldn’t resist taking a picture of the sign—they are really proud of their native son! It wasn’t until 9:30 pm, though, that I arrived at London Heathrow because of a nearly four hour layover in Vienna. My friend, Joan Ishibashi, was waiting for me… Read More London church hopping