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I recorded a few snapshots of my London life during the month of March. In the video you will see Gordon Square and Reading Room at Welcome Collection in Bloomsbury where I often have my lunch breaks, my afternoon and evening walks in Soho, Trafalgar Square and Russell Square. My […]
“Berlin is a city condemned forever to becoming and never to being.” Karl Scheffler, 1910 At the end of February I spent a few days in Berlin. On my first day I wandered the streets of Berlin, saw the Brandenburg Gate by day and night, visited Friedrich Strasse, Holocaust Memorial, […]
[dates in the brackets indicate the dates of the reign] A few weeks ago I went to see the beautiful exhibition dedicated to the Great Mughal art that traces the evolution of this distinctive art that flourished in the 16th and 17th century under the reign of three Mughal emperors. […]
One Saturday I went to Tate Britain. It was a lovely visit. I forgot how beautiful Tate Britain is inside. I love their collection of Turner’s paintings. I recorded my visit and I hope you will enjoy it.
A few weeks ago I went to see the exhibition at Royal Academy of Arts dedicated to Leonardo da Vinci, Raphael and Michelangelo. I then visited one of the oldest and most beautiful bookstores in London called Hatchards, right across the street from the Royal Academy. After browsing through some […]
I decided to spend one day in York which is around two and half hours away from London by train. I left London very early and travelled across the misty hills and fields of North England. The city was covered in the mist when I arrived. It was such a […]
I put together another video from my time in the Lake District. This time I took a bus from Windermere to Keswick, and I went for a walk around Derwentwater. I then took a bus to Ullswater and Aira Force Waterfall. Next day I took a ferry from Windermere to […]
The best portion of a good man’s life: his little, nameless unremembered acts of kindness and love. – William Wordsworth In October I visited the Lake District. On my first day I visited the beautiful village of Grasmere, the famous Gingerbread shop that has been selling its produce since the […]
I visited Cambridge one Saturday in October. I loved autumnal colours of the season and I enjoyed the cosy weather very much. I took a train from London King’s Cross in the early morning and I was able to experience a train journey through the foggy fields and hills of […]
Recently I have visited the British Museum on a few Friday evenings and recorded some snapshots for my memories. I have not visited all the rooms in the museum yet but I’ll visit it again soon and will record more. In the meantime I hope you will enjoy this little […]