loved reading this and loved seeing your photos as well! I'm so happy we could meet—I love your writing so much and your perspective on literature & culture!!—and also we need more defenders of British food, lol (London actually has GREAT food and great Asian food, I don't know what everyone's on about…and I say this as someone who grew up in the Bay Area!)
As a native Londoner I really enjoyed reading this outsider's perspective on the city, which I don't come across hugely often. Sounds like you had a great time! (Even if you had to sit through a Spurs match, awful stuff...)
Strangely enough, the bookstore I found I liked best in London was the Waterstones on Gower Street, near UCL. Corporate, sure, but I got a book of Georges Bataille with an introduction by Yukio Mishima.
Will have to put it on my to-do list for next time! Irritatingly, the London Review shop told me that its cafe had just closed like a week before I got there.
loved reading this and loved seeing your photos as well! I'm so happy we could meet—I love your writing so much and your perspective on literature & culture!!—and also we need more defenders of British food, lol (London actually has GREAT food and great Asian food, I don't know what everyone's on about…and I say this as someone who grew up in the Bay Area!)
Same and likewise! I loved the meat pies I had there, especially. I hope the rest of your time there is a great one.
As a native Londoner I really enjoyed reading this outsider's perspective on the city, which I don't come across hugely often. Sounds like you had a great time! (Even if you had to sit through a Spurs match, awful stuff...)
I'm going to write all about our glorious victory over Everton in a later segment.
Strangely enough, the bookstore I found I liked best in London was the Waterstones on Gower Street, near UCL. Corporate, sure, but I got a book of Georges Bataille with an introduction by Yukio Mishima.
Will have to put it on my to-do list for next time! Irritatingly, the London Review shop told me that its cafe had just closed like a week before I got there.
Thanks, Eleanor! And as I said, I'll be writing about Oxford next, which I'm sure you'll especially appreciate.