I started working for Iberia on October, 1991, as a booking agent at the airline’s central offices in London, a few meters from Piccadilly Circus...
15/02/2022
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Britain
As winter wanes and long awaited spring "creeps over me windowsill", a number of cities in the northerly reaches of Europe especially start to come out of their invernal...
06/03/2020
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More than a few non-Brits have at least vaguely heard of a place called Cornwall – maybe even that its duke is Prince Charles and its duchess...
06/10/2016
The grand old lady on the Thames is arguably as defined by her open spaces as her streets and monuments. And while we tend to think of London parklands in their verdant...
01/12/2015
Oranges and lemons,
Say the bells of St. Clement's.
You owe me five farthings,
Say the bells of St. Martin's.
When will you pay me?
Say the bells of Old Bailey.
When I grow rich,
Say...
02/09/2014