Lodgings In London
(Stafford Hotel)
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October 7, 2008 3:05 PM Another great discovery that I made during a recent visit to London (besides a sensational cream puff at Fortnum & Mason that I discovered, and then ate), was the Stafford Hotel, which is tucked away on quiet, elegant St. James Place in Westminster, just around the corner from where Princes William and Harry live at St. James Palace.
October 6, 2008 8:59 AM 
My goodness, London was absolutely gorgeous last week when I arrived for a short visit before embarking on a trans-Atlantic cruise. St. James and Green Parks were indeed green and lush, the sun was shining and the flowers around Queen Victoria’s statue were in full bloom. The city has been enjoying a long, lingering summer. The rains will come soon enough, but for now London is looking her best. It was a great visit, even if it seemed to cost me $80 every time I stepped out of my hotel room, given that the pound is trading at nearly half to a dollar. Which makes a nice, reasonably priced five-pound sandwich a hefty ten bucks, a fifteen-pound cab ride suddenly whooshes up to thirty smackers, theater tickets and hotel rooms are doubled, and so on.
London Calling
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August 17, 2007 3:29 PM 
The best cup of tea that I’ve ever had was in London. It came not at a big, fancy tea service at a posh hotel, but in the basement Crypt Café of the St. Martin-in-the-Fields church in Trafalgar Square. The dark, cavernous room has stone arches that suggest that it had been there long before Manhattan island was sold to the Dutch, and it is the atmosphere that makes me go back for more tea every time I’m in London. Outside, the pigeons flying around the Admiral Lord Nelson sculpture add even more atmosphere.
London Calling
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