I’m on the plane ride home. There’s no internet, so I won’t be able to post this until later. It’s boring to not have internet for six hours and no one to talk to. My seat mate is pleasant enough, but he’s watching movies.

I watched a movie. Hot Fuzz. I’d never seen it somehow. It’s perfect. I laughed a lot, which was great, but now nothing else is as go…

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An aura reader once told me that in a past life I was a hooker in Soho and died in the London Blitz. Make of that what you will.

I was in Soho yesterday and nothing tragic occurred. Not to me. There were tragedies happening all over the world, but I was okay.

A friend met me for lunch in Chinatown. When she said she’d be ten minu…

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I’m drinking a mulled cider at the first place I ever ordered a drink at a bar. I was 14 or 15. England wasn’t picky about these things back then. While waiting to order my cider, I watched someone else get carded and chuckled to myself.

That first time at the bar, I also ordered a cider. Unheated. It was the summer. I was running around Oxford with my …

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Today I’m at the V&A. It’s spectacular. I would move to London just to spend my days wandering these halls.

Yesterday I went to the British Museum and it kind of depressed me. It’s hard to say why. I was only seeing the Imperialism, maybe, which seems a bit much. I think I really just wanted to see British things, since I’m in Britain. I can see mummies…

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Yesterday’s morning mission was to see the Changing of the Guard before lunch with my cousin and his girlfriend.

I grabbed the Central Line, getting on at White City again, got off at Bond Street, transferred to the Jubilee Line, got off at Green Park.

There was a little ice cream stand outside the way out. I ordered a Cornetto. “Strawberry or Classic?”as…

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I’m staying in Shepherd’s Bush. I wanted to have the big reveal when I got into the center of London, so I decided to take the Central Line to St. Paul’s Cathedral.

I was so excited this morning to get into the city that I didn’t even wanna shower first and didn’t even have coffee. I never leave the house without having coffee first, but today I just wa…

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I took an Uber to the train station. It’s just me traveling, and it was tough juggling all my luggage to the tram. I made it down the hill from the Airbnb then gave up.

That was the aim of Brexit, right?My driver was Polish. He’s been in Edinburgh since 2007. When he first came over, he stayed with his cousin, who’d been in Scotland since 2003. That cou…

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I bought really great boots for this trip. Supportive, cool-looking, easy to take on and off. Not cushy, though, and I started missing cushy. I’ve been doing a lot of walking. I also hurt the top of my right foot at some point early on, and the boots exasperated the pain. Maybe because they have a slight heel?

I would sometimes switch to the flats that …

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It’s a bit too on-the-nose to see Edinburgh’s statue of Adam Smith surrounded by the zillions of tchotchke shops on the Royal Mile. I hesitate to start with the observation. It’s obvious and reductive.

That those shops are purported to all be owned by one Indian-Scottish family. This often-repeated aside has a whiff of anti-immigrant thinking to it, of …

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Edinburgh in December is gray. Just gray. The sun comes up, but not until 8:30. Then it goes down at 3:30 in the afternoon.

During its brief arc, you barely see it behind the gray clouds hanging over the city. We know it’s up because it’s not completely dark out for a bit, but it hardly feels like daylight.

The city is built of stones that look rich and …

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