LUKE'S LOBSTER (BETHESDA & GEORGETOWN)

A genuine (and quite amazing) lobster & crab shack.

(Too bad Frankland's Crabs in Montecito didn't pan out...)

SEEN AROUND BETHESDA

BETHESDA ROW

HANDS FULL IN NORTH LONDON

RAF BOMBER COMMAND MEMORIAL

GEORGE F. TRUMPER

Not into shopping, generally, but this gentleman's emporium is irresistible.

Geo F Trumper - Gentleman's barbers and perfumers

ON A SUNNY DAY...

St. James's Park

...no finer place to be than London.

Hyde Park

A luxurious ten-hour sleep and a long walk through Mayfair and London's prettiest parks leads to feeling an overwhelming joyousness.

THE LANES OF MARYLEBONE

This French country gem cannot be beat for a quiche and a glass of Beaune Grand Cru

ANGEL IN THE FIELDS

Drink with me (Les Miserables in Concert -The 25th Anniversary, O2 London, 3 Oct) - YouTube

THE WALLACE COLLECTION

SIR LARRY

My friend since 44 years ago.

I first met Larry in 1974 when he invaded my coffee house, Tricky Dick's, costumed as a wicked hunch-backed vicar, asking pretty ladies if he could join them and in the same breath how they liked their bacon cooked for breakfast while enhancing live music (often courtesy of Tim Hardin) by madly beating his hump with a drumstick.

(Weren't those the days...)

Larry was (and still is) more entertaining than all the finest TV, movies and live musicals combined.

NOT SELFRIDGES

Selfridges has sadly sacrificed itself to Russian consumers.

As one wise Brit told me, if you want to witness the English shopping experience in London, travel up and down the escalators at John Lewis.

THE ORBS OF ST. MARYLEBONE

SEEN AROUND HAMPSTEAD

THE MARYLEBONE

Otherwise known as the Queen's Head, a pub where we ASL teens celebrated many a weekend with Holsten lager and vodka & limes back in the early 1970s.

PAUL SMITH STYLE

This adequately reflects my thoughts about a file that recently landed on my desk.

VIEW FROM A BLACK CAB

Ever since I first laid eyes on the Albert Memorial in 1969, it has been my favorite London monument.

WHERE IS EVERYONE?

LOS OLIVOS: WINE HEAVEN

Epiphani-zed at Epiphany.

Thereafter, refuge at Refugio.

(UK) SUNDAY MIRROR

Putin plotters pictured: Spies' secret summit in Moscow restaurant where West learned Vlad was taking control of Russia - Mirror Online

BEST MAN & GROOM

(And fellow road warriors.)

WEDDING DAY

Congratulations to Curt and Larisa!

WINE VALLEY LIVING

LECH & ME

Sorting through files saved from mud, I found this from Gdansk, Poland, circa 1984.

Walesa was under house arrest at the time.  (The goons were downstairs, had already harassed our entry, were gearing up to harass our exit.)

Times soon changed and Walesa became President of Poland.