Frugal London likes to think of souvenirs as artifacts of a travel experience. The artifacts approach favors gathering two kinds of things that help us remember London. One type is artifacts with a practical purpose: boarding passes, ticket stubs, currency and receipts. The other type is artifacts that mark interactions, …
I’d been on the streets less than an hour when I spotted my first supercar. It was a Lamborghini Gallardo, the Spyder version in yellow. Its driver was lane-changing through rush-hour traffic, heedless of others. The exhaust note – and occasional flame – signaled the gear changes. Irresponsible, of course, …
One of London’s most popular shopping streets is barely known to tourists. This is Northcote Road, a mile-long collection of “quirky small …
Violinist Marta Kowalczyk was rehearsing a Prokofiev piece when I ventured into St. James Piccadilly, a central London church designed in the …
I told a colleague that I was writing a travel story about visiting London on the cheap. “Is that possible?” she asked. …
Linking travel to literature, writes Ian Ousby, brings both innocent pleasure and real enlightenment. No where in the Western world is this …
The Thames, says writer Christopher Winn, is London’s one constant. Little that matters here fails to touch this “silver thread of liquid …
The lowest-price, air-conditioned, en-suite hotel room in London costs $30 per night, single or double — frugal, right? There are the caveats, …
To dine well — yet frugally — in London means dining ethnic. Only the price is low-end. In this most-multicultural global capital, …
There’s nothing better than a brisk, country walk that begins and ends with food and drink. Tea and toast before you step …
