London
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I Bought Too Many Books
I didn’t really because any of you reading this blog post know that there is no such thing as too many books. However, some people in my life think I bought too many books. I view that as a challenge. Can I top my number of books purchased next time I am in the U.K.? Something to aim for. I came across this quote in In Search of London by H. V. Morton. I liked the quote even though he went on to talk about how only men can be true book lovers. I think that is pure nonsense. This quote isn’t nonsense though. It is just lovely. The man…
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London, I Still Love You
Even in the rain. Even when my husband gets the flu. Even when we don’t do half the things we planned. Even when it is cold and grey. Because a rainy day in London is still better than almost any other day. But yes, my poor husband got the flu 36 hours after we arrived in London. Those evil airplane germs did him in. We still had fun though. He did a few things with me in the morning and then went back to the hotel and rested a bit in the afternoons and then came out to dinner. He felt bad about being out and about while sick but…
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London Plans
If there is one thing that should be clear to anyone who reads this blog it is that my husband and I love to travel to the U.K. We have been to London a number of times. The last time was a couple of years ago. Happily, we are going again in February. Our original plans were to go to Yorkshire for our next trip. However, this trip was planned after my husband was in a motorcycle accident last year and needed something to look forward to in order to get through a long and painful recovery. He couldn’t handle the thought of anything unfamiliar because the concussion made it…
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Books I Bought In London
I bought seventeen books when I was in London. Which, purely by coincidence, is the same number of books I bought last time I was in London. I don’t usually look for specific books. I just wander through any bookstore I come across and buy anything that catches my eye. When I have so many books that I am starting to worry about transporting them home I try to curtail my purchases. This is hard since even though I shouldn’t buy any more books I continue to wander through bookstores. And if you can wander through a bookstore without wanting to purchase more books then you are a stronger person…
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London
I live for the day when I step off the boat-train and feel its dirty sidewalks under my feet. I want to walk up Berkley Square and down Wimpole Street and stand in St. Paul’s where John Donne preached and sit on the step Elizabeth sat on when she refused to enter the Tower, and like that. A newspaper man I know, who was stationed in London during the war, says tourists go to England with preconceived notions, so they always find exactly what they are looking for. I told him I’d go looking for the England of English literature, and he said: “Then it’s there.” Helene Hanff wrote that…
