Hello! I am traveling to London from Canada for a month with my husband and toddler, who is having a major surgery at Great Ormond Street Hospital for Children. We’re spending a week in hospital and five weeks in a rental flat with outpatient care. Given our long-term stay, I’d love to borrow or buy […]

Tourists and the Berkshire Mirage: A Night in the Home Counties Hook: The fantasy of Berkshire, just downstream from London, carries the sweetness of river light and a promise of effortless, 30-minute door-to-door bliss into the city. Picture a sunset glide along the Thames, a royal park stroll, a sunset pint at a gastropub that […]

Title: Berkshire by the Clock: A Love Letter and a Reality Check for the Commuter Belt Hook The river winks at us in Berkshire—the Thames threading through towns like a silver thread of memory. Riverside walks, royal parks, a sense that you could loop a perfect weekend into a single, sunlit stroll from a village […]

as title It’ll be a short trip, 25-26-27-28 March 2024 but we’d HATE to find out too late that we missed something extraordinary. We’ll look at the DesMus and Barbican sites in a mo’ We work in the design biz, so our interests lean more in that direction than the other. We’re ‘mostly’ Canadian (if […]

Title: Berkshire by the River, Street by Street: The Twin Faces of a County in Transit The first image you conjure when you think of Berkshire is almost sempre the postcard: river-washed meadows, oaks dripping with moss, a sunlit lock-keeper and a pub puffing out the scent of Sunday roasts. The Thames does its slow, […]

Title: Scones, Pubs and the Price of Progress: Berkshire’s Dual Identity in the Commuter Belt The river lazily folds its way through Berkshire, where the Thames sketches the line between gentle postcard scenery and the real, restless rhythm of modern life. Picture a town where morning light catches church spires and row upon row of […]

Six @ Vaudeville Theatre or Cabaret @ Kit Kat Club at the Playhouse Theatre? (A Berkshire commuter’s compass to London’s temptations) Hook: Berkshire’s river-silver mornings, the hedgerows pacing the dawn, and the kingfisher-blue of a nonchalant commute. The river strolls past charming market squares, the pubs hum with Michelin whispers, and a half-hour sprint to […]

I’m traveling to London (from Chicago) at the beginning of December with my husband and two young children to celebrate my 40th birthday. London is my favorite city although I haven’t been in 10+ years. I’ve never been at Christmas and this is a bucket list trip. My boys are age 7 and 5 and […]

Dusk, Dim Sum, and the Dancing City: Surviving London’s Nightlife Soaked in Connection The air shifts the moment the sky deepens—dusk drips over the Thames and the city exhales a neon sigh. Tonight, London isn’t a map so much as a heartbeat you can chase: the pre-game buzz, the street-food perfume, the fresh-fit swagger, and […]

Title: The Good, the Glitzy, and the Grumble: Berkshire’s Quiet Rally to the City If you’ve ever lingered along the Thames in Berkshire, you know the postcard. River paths glimmering under poplar shade, markets that remember the days when a Sunday meant paper bags and a loaf of something crusty, and a sense that the […]