When Jessica and I left London a few weeks ago, we didn’t leave the UK, but instead went to Wales. Jessica was under a loose obligation to attend a gathering of Fulbright Scholars there, even though most of the rest of them were on UK-specific programs, whereas Jessica is being funded through a “Global” program. Regardless, they asked her to […]

The last week we were in London was fairly cold and had some bouts of raininess. Fairly typical for our time there. But our second to last week there was glorious. It was bright and sunny. People were walking around in t-shirts. The parks were overflowing. So, I want to finish my memories of London with some of the most […]

Much as I said there was history around every corner in London, not just in museums, the same is absolutely true for art. You may have noticed that the canals have a fair amount of graffiti along the walls, and the same is true in many more places. There’s a huge range from more simple tags to formal street art […]

There are about a million art museums and galleries in London. We didn’t get to that many of them, but hit a few of the big ones during our couple of months there. Like the British Museum, and really most of the major museums in London, all the major art galleries have free entry, with some more substantial fee for […]

Let’s start with a brief frustrating aside. Jessica and I have COVID. We’re currently isolating in a hotel in Swansea in Wales, an area we had been thoroughly enjoying (more on that when I finish with London) until we got sick. It seems like we got it at a dinner for the Fulbright that we both attended (and at least […]

Jessica and I have now officially left London, but I have a bunch more thoughts, photos, stories, etc. that I’ll finish writing up over the next week or two, so expect a small barrage of posts–a couple shortish and a couple might be kinda epic. Today I want to write about how we encountered London–mostly through observing its buildings. With […]