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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 London Summary
London Jan 10 - Feb 11: #3: Hampstead #4: Primrose Hill, St John’s Wood #5: Kilburn, Willesden #6: Hampstead & its Heath #7: V & A museum...
dougbergh
Feb 121 min read
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2025 Feb #10: Holland Park, Ember Locke, David & Wendy
Mon Feb 10: we had left David & Wendy’s yesterday & checked into the Ember Locke hotel in South Kensington. It’s great - luxurious,...
dougbergh
Feb 121 min read
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2025 Feb #9: Move, Dennis Severs, BEST MEAL
Sun Feb 9, eviction day. David & Wendy return tonight. Tidied the flat, had an eventful bus ride involving a 20 minute wait (2x the...
dougbergh
Feb 91 min read
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2025 Feb #8: Marylebone
Sat Feb 8: Daunt bookstore, Marylebone. We knew we wanted to explore Marylebone but hadn’t found its nice part…until today. We found a...
dougbergh
Feb 91 min read
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2024 Feb #7: Design Museum
There’s a design museum in a very cool modern building: Among the best displays: …right off your head. Dinner at a local West Hampstead...
dougbergh
Feb 81 min read
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2025 Feb #6: Kelly, Soane Museum, Silver Vaults, Ottolenghi
Big day today, Fri Feb 6: Met Adrienne’s ballet buddy Kelly for lunch (she’s doing great, started a job this week cataloguing family...
dougbergh
Feb 81 min read
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2025 Feb #5: South Bank, Imperial War Museum
Wed Feb 5, Imperial War Museum. No pics inside, but it’s got a lot of good WWII exhibits including a very good holocaust exhibit. New...
dougbergh
Feb 81 min read
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2025 Feb #4: British Library & The Borough
Tuesday Feb 4, 11 AM tour of the British Library, 5pm meet Sarah @ 5:45 dinner res in The Borough. Arrived at the King’s Cross / St...
dougbergh
Feb 51 min read
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2025 Feb #3: Tate
Mon Feb 3, The Tate Britain art museum. Leslie in her new glasses, at breakfast at home: We took a tour @ 11am, then went out for lunch,...
dougbergh
Feb 51 min read
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2025 Feb #2: Hampstead, Tate, Parliament
A beautiful day for a walk in the neighborhood. Walked up through Hampstead & the Hill Garden and Pergola: …on into Golders Hill Park:...
dougbergh
Feb 31 min read
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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...
dougbergh
Feb 31 min read
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2025 Jan #22: British Museum
Fri Jan 31: British Museum. Goes without saying, a must-see in any London trip:
dougbergh
Feb 31 min read
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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...
dougbergh
Feb 21 min read
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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...
dougbergh
Feb 21 min read
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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...
dougbergh
Jan 301 min read
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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 ...
dougbergh
Jan 301 min read
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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...
dougbergh
Jan 303 min read
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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...
dougbergh
Jan 261 min read
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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...
dougbergh
Jan 261 min read
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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 &...
dougbergh
Jan 241 min read
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