Tag: London
Postcards from Europe 🖼🏞🇪🇺
Since I started this new blog I launched a successful series of blog posts featuring travel notes from my favourite travels. This is an opportunity to recall some of these popular posts with postcards from European destinations for you to enjoy. It is only relatively recently that I spent a week in Budapest and I discovered one of the most beautiful cities in Europe, steeped … Continue reading Postcards from Europe 🖼🏞🇪🇺
Wigmore Hall 🎶🎹🏛
London has a wonderful concentration of venues with excellent acoustics for classical music concerts of all kinds. My favourites are the smaller and more intimate ones, like Wigmore Hall, perfect for chamber music, with a varied programme of world-class concerts every day of the week. Originally called Bechstein Hall, after the renowned piano maker, who had a showroom next door, and commissioned the building in … Continue reading Wigmore Hall 🎶🎹🏛
Tate Modern 🖼🖌🗿
Tate Modern is one of the four Tate museums and the one specialising in modern and contemporary art. It is also Britain’s national gallery for international modern art and one of the most popular art galleries in London, open to all with free access seven days a week for the permanent displays, while charging for temporary exhibitions. Hosted in the building that was once the Bankside Power … Continue reading Tate Modern 🖼🖌🗿
Alessandro Magno 🗿🏛📚
Sebbene re dell’antica Macedonia per meno di 13 anni, Alessandro Magno cambiò il corso della storia come nessun altro condottiero del mondo antico. Uno dei più grandi generali militari del mondo, creò un vasto impero che si estendeva dalla Macedonia all’Egitto e dalla Grecia a parte dell’India. Ciò ha permesso alla cultura ellenistica di diffondersi ben oltre i confini dell’antica Grecia. Alessandro Magno fu uno … Continue reading Alessandro Magno 🗿🏛📚
London parks 💂🌳🌷
Despite an intensive urbanisation London has maintained some large areas within the city boundaries as green spaces for all to appreciate nature and take a break from the traffic and the hectic rhythm of the metropolis. St James’s Park in central London is one of the best curated and probably the oldest urban green areas, against the royal backdrop of Buckingham Palace and the scenic … Continue reading London parks 💂🌳🌷
Postcards from London 🖼💂🏼♂️🇬🇧
London is the place where I live because in my 30s I felt an irresistible attraction to the city and decided this was the place where I wanted to develop my career and live my life. More than 20 years after, I am still in love with this city and feel amazed by the opportunities the metropolis can offer, whether one decides to take them … Continue reading Postcards from London 🖼💂🏼♂️🇬🇧
The British Museum 🗿💂🇬🇧
Established on the 7th of June 1753, the British Museum is a marvellous treasure trove of many records. It is the first public national museum, has the largest and most comprehensive collection of items and the most visited museum in the world with almost 6 million visitors every year. In 1801 the Museum acquired the Rosetta Stone, arguably one of the most significant item on … Continue reading The British Museum 🗿💂🇬🇧
Westminster Abbey 🏛⛪️🎶
Westminster Abbey has had more than 1,000 years of connections with royalty and the religious role played by the monarchy in England. Since the coronation of William the Conqueror in 1066 it has been the coronation church for kings and queens and the resting place for more than 3,000 great Britons. Its distant recorded origins date back to the 960s when a community of a … Continue reading Westminster Abbey 🏛⛪️🎶
My Old Dutch, London 🥞🇳🇱🍴
restaurant revoew of pancakes restaurant in London Continue reading My Old Dutch, London 🥞🇳🇱🍴