Category: Nature
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“To take, or not to take”: Where Superstition Trumps Logic?
Why would a rational being not take a stone from an island full of stones?
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Photo of the Year: 2012
I like swans. This one is from Lake Konstanz, Germany. p.s. I take a lot of swan pictures, don’t I?
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Review: Café de Flore
In what feels like a lifetime ago, I wrote about my favourite noodle place. Here is how I ended that review: Until next time – I shall be writing about a little hidden away café on Nakon-In road. Now the time has come for me to introduce to you, drumrolls please… *drumrolls* Café de Flore! If I made…
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In Pictures: Snowy Oxford
I do wish it would snow like this again. London must look pretty amazing in the snow. #wishfulthinking
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The Swan in Stratford
Some Shakespeare-related wordplay going on there. Didn’t get it? Never mind me.
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Val’s London
A collection of images from my Instagram page – some filtered, some not. Funnily enough, my favourite corner of London isn’t featured here. But I’d rather not double-post pictures. So here it is – the Royal Festival Hall and Southbank in Christmas lights.
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My Favourite London Corners
I’ve decided to share with you, dear readers, my favourite London corners. Because I’m nice. Make sure you visit those on your next trip to London. And if you live in London and haven’t been to at least five, you should consider working less. So here goes, in ascending order of favouriteness: Gold Mine –…
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Reading a Book
One fine Summer evening, in London. It is what you read when you don’t have to that determines what you will be when you can’t help it – Oscar Wilde