Circo Massimo

Bittersweet Symphony: Navigating London's Sidewalks

---

October 31st 2006
Yesterday morning Gretchen and I were flipping channels to check the weather. (Speaking of which, somebody described London weather as living inside a defrosting refrigerator—I think that’s probably as fair a description as any.) At any rate, we stumbled across the channel, The HITS, which is that VH-1 type music video channel here that we were watching when I wrote the England’s Top Twent ... read more

Europe » United Kingdom » England » Greater London

---

Great Britain, the dominant industrial and maritime power of the 19th century, played a leading role in developing parliamentary democracy and in advancing literature and science. At its zenith, the British Empire stretched over one-fourth of the ear... ... read more