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Bridges to London: Favorite Fotos: Careful on those bikes!
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Tuesday, January 13, 2009. Favorite Fotos: Careful on those bikes! I felt like posting something a bit more lighthearted after the two days of war memorials, and so I dipped back into my sign collection. Two of the small categories I've sorted the photos into rather go together—bicycles and general safety notices—so they provide the basis for today's entry. The sign at the right, taken next to the Wellington Arch, in a very. On to more general safety notices, among which my favorite is this one on the le...
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Bridges to London: V&A re-redux
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Wednesday, November 12, 2008. I have a feeling there will be a lot of "revisited" titles in my posts from here on out. I've made it to all the "big ticket" tourist sites, and some I'm satisfied with, but others I know I'll want to see again before I leave. Sunday it was the Victoria and Albert Museum. As you can see by the picture, third time was a charm and I finally found the cleverly-hidden musical instruments gallery. It was worth. The hunt. An amazing array—surprise! Just a Plane Ride Away. Dreaming...
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Bridges to London: March 2013
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Saturday, March 23, 2013. Whole lotta history going on. At the risk of making this a blog only about museums. I was in another one last weekend that reminded me, quality-wise, of the great ones in London. Although this monument is pretty firmly rooted in the land of e-pluribus-unum, and even more deeply, in the good old Lone Star State. I have been meaning to make a trip up IH-35 to Austin with museums as the focus for some time, and finally decided that the last weekend of SxSW. While those rows and row...
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Bridges to London: Go! Spurs! Go! [and a book recommendation]
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Wednesday, November 6, 2013. And a book recommendation]. How could I not be reminded of London when I saw this football supporters' flag on the wall in my daughter's Austin home? She and her boyfriend are big fans of Tottenham Hotspur. The north London club usually referred to by a nickname familiar in another sport to folks here in South Texas. I mean, when you root for the Spurs. It's a dark and disturbing, yet wonderfully-written urban fantasy set—surprise! Plus some fantastic scenes are set in Harrod...
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Bridges to London: Good museums always take me back....
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Sunday, September 30, 2012. Good museums always take me back. Whenever I visit a good museum (for example the Pacific War Museum. In Fredericksburg, Texas) it always reminds me of my time in London, where you are practically surrounded by wonderful museums. Last weekend I had that feeling again, when I got to visit Denver's wonderful Museum of Nature and Science. And their special Pompeii exhibit. And its regular exhibits are first-rate, too. I'm sure that their Gems and Minerals. Seen anything like thes...
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Bridges to London: November 2013
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Monday, November 18, 2013. A little convoluted this time, but, bear with me. Probably only a few of my readers will remember the song referenced in my title. (But it's really quite lovely; you can hear it here. Straight from the movie.) And this little house on the west side of San Antonio is a far cry from St. Paul's. But the sentiments seem the same, don't they? So when the song starts up on my mental record player, you can see where the London connection comes in. Links to this post. It's a dark and d...
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Bridges to London: Our capital has good museums, too!
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Saturday, May 10, 2014. Our capital has good museums, too! Last week I was in Washington, D.C. for a librarians' meeting and was able to take a couple of extra days to sightsee when it was over. Since it had been a while since I had been to a really big, wear-yourself-out museum, that's what I opted for on my free Saturday. Two, in fact: our National Gallery of Art. We seem to feel the need to add the prepositional phrase, whereas the British don't) and our National Museum of Natural History. But the mus...
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Bridges to London: Feed the birds
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Monday, November 18, 2013. A little convoluted this time, but, bear with me. Probably only a few of my readers will remember the song referenced in my title. (But it's really quite lovely; you can hear it here. Straight from the movie.) And this little house on the west side of San Antonio is a far cry from St. Paul's. But the sentiments seem the same, don't they? So when the song starts up on my mental record player, you can see where the London connection comes in. Subscribe to: Post Comments (Atom).
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