DOUG’S RETIREMENT TRAVEL BLOG

65: time to hit the road

I retired. Twice. The first time in 2022, without Leslie; the second time in 2024, with her. Maybe this time it’ll stick.

Several discreet trips; each is a category. You can select one below to see it specifically, or just walk through. They're in reverse chronological order.

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2025 Feb #1: Portobello Road, Kew Gardens

Sat Feb 1. Picked Leslie’s new glasses up on Portobello Road & went on to Kew Gardens. The road - several blocks of stalls presumably set...

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Feb 31 min read

2025 Jan #22: British Museum

Fri Jan 31: British Museum. Goes without saying, a must-see in any London trip:

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Feb 31 min read

2025 Jan #21: Tamil Prince & Wicked

Thu Jan 30; lunch & Tamil Prince, another Sarah/Ollie recommendation, and a play: Wicked. The walk over. Belize Park: Haverstock: Kentish...

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Feb 21 min read

2025 Jan #20: Sarah

Mon Jan 29: Had dinner with a good friend of Adrienne’s and her boyfriend: Sarah Rabin and Ollie Tarant, at Smoking Goat, a Thai...

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Feb 21 min read

2025 Jan #19: Chelsea

One of my two new pairs of glasses was ready to pick up so off to Chelsea. Along the way we stumbled across the Michelin House. Built in...

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Jan 301 min read

2025 Jan #18: Karl Marx

Sunday 26th, closer to home, walk to see Karl Marx’s tomb in Highgate Cemetary. Engraved in the sidewalk on Cleve Road, typical Brit ...

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Jan 301 min read

2025 Jan #17: Hampton Court

Special treat today: Leslie is writing the post! A day at Court Leaving the train station this oddly-shaped but welcoming tavern was the...

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Jan 303 min read

2025 Jan #16: Camden Town, Belsize Park

Friday 25th. 1st order of business: drop shoes off for repair, in our neighborhood West Hempstead: Through a corner of St John’s Wood...

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Jan 261 min read

2025 Jan #15: St Bride & St Paul

Today’s activity: St Paul’s Cathedral. On the way there, stopped into St Bride’s Church on Fleet St. Much smaller but every bit as...

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Jan 261 min read

2025 Jan #14: SoHo, Fleet St, Covent Garden, theater

Wednesday the 22nd: tix to a play tonight: hadestown, a musical. Bus down to soho, stroll ‘til showtime (7:30). Castle Baynard &...

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Jan 241 min read

2025 Jan #13: Fortnum&Mason, Tower ofLondon

Destination: Tower of London. Bus got stuck in a jam, we got off in soho. Walking up Piccadilly, hit Fortnum & Mason. Spent an hour...

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Jan 221 min read

2025 Jan #12: Bloomsbury

Random walk through Bloomsbury, around the e British Museum. Starting on Oxford Street: Newman Passage, Store Street, Russell Square:...

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Jan 221 min read

2025 Jan #11: Portobello Road, Nottingham Hill, Chelsea

It’s Sunday, the day of the Portobello Market, so off we go. Market a bit of a bust, but the Road is very cool. Didn’t get the name of...

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Jan 191 min read

2025 Jan #10: Chelsea & Buckingham Palace

Sat 18th: 2nd breakfast at a nice cafe (btw we’ve been ducking into cafes often to thaw): Walk to Sloan Square: Lunch at Ottolenghi: And...

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Jan 191 min read

2025 Jan #9: Marylebone, SoHo, Trafalgar

Friday 17th. Relatively uneventful. Bus to Marylebone, Ottolenghi sighting but lunch at Wagamama: Walk to SoHo: Happened across the...

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Jan 191 min read

2025 Jan #8: SoHo, Southwark

Thursday 16th: bus down to Oxford Street Marylebone: …and walked into SoHo: Then across the Thames in search of the state Modern museum:...

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Jan 181 min read

2025 Jan #7: Victoria & Albert

Today we visited the Victoria & Albert museum. It’s astonishing. More later.. Took a bus back to Kensington & walked the last bit,...

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Jan 161 min read

2025 Jan #6: Hampstead Heath, Kensington

Hampstead Heath is a huge open space; kinda reminiscent of The Presidio. Spent the AM walking. Through West Hampstead and into Hampstead:...

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Jan 141 min read

2025 Jan #5: Kilburn, Willesden

Southwest from the flat today, on foot again. 1st order of business: semi-annual haircut for Doug. David recommended this guy ‘Gas’ in...

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Jan 131 min read

2025 Jan #4: Hampstead, Primrose Hill, St Regents Park, St Johns Wood, Abbey Road

Sun Jan 12: Today we walked south-east, through West Hampstead, South Hampstead and Swiss Cottage, to Primrose Hill and Regent’s Park;...

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Jan 121 min read

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