We launched this series in August 2023, after Nikos & I had done a swing through Het Loo palace and museum in Appeldoorn. So this was my first visit since then to London, home to that most quintessential royal head-of-state institution full of pomp and circumstance (and a fairly high level of dignity, compared to some other global heads of state one can think of). So although really the weekend was all about celebrating Howard’s 60th birthday, I simply had to post my first ever blog shots of this well known royal location.
Last shots from my work-from-London week in mid-May: The Shard as seen from near the Tate Modern, and a lovely old school building near where I stayed.
Yes, that’s the other European capital to which I referred in an earlier post. Still tons of Prague photos to come, but we’ll mix in a few from London and of course A’dam as we go along. The friend I did this walk with mentioned that Big Ben had been shrouded by scaffolding until quite recently.
I managed, in September, to get to London for the first time since 2011 — for a long weekend, after meetings in Amsterdam before flying home to SF. The days were filled with social & cultural events, tennis, and biking around Victoria Park, Hampstead Heath and the Embankment — all with friends from various parts of my life. I didn’t think in terms of photos much, but some of the days were so lovely, or the views so interesting, that I just had to at least use the phone’s camera app briefly. Thus the few shots you see here. The man in orange below is one of those friends (my host; thanks, Stu!) inside an installation in a really cool Olafur Eliasson exhibit at Tate Modern that we managed squeeze in by picking up last-minute early-morning tickets before a pretty darn fine staging of Peer (Peter) Gynt at the National…which we got on the cheap by showing up first thing and seeing what they had.
I managed, in September, to get to London for the first time since 2011 — for a long weekend, after meetings in Amsterdam before flying home to SF. The days were filled with social & cultural events, tennis, and biking around Victoria Park, Hampstead Heath and the Embankment — all with friends from various parts of my life. I didn’t think in terms of photos much, but some of the days were so lovely, or the views so interesting, that I just had to at least use the phone’s camera app briefly. Thus the few shots you see here. The man in orange below is one of those friends (my host; thanks, Stu!) inside an installation in a really cool Olafur Eliasson exhibit at Tate Modern that we managed squeeze in by picking up last-minute early-morning tickets before a pretty darn fine staging of Peer (Peter) Gynt at the National…which we got on the cheap by showing up first thing and seeing what they had. 
