AFTERNOON TEA AT THE HOUSES OF PARLIAMENT

AFTERNOON TEA AT THE HOUSES OF PARLIAMENT

The Palace of Westminster, or Houses of Parliament as it’s commonly referred to, is one of London’s ultimate tourist hot spots, even if Big Ben is hibernating for the next three years whilst he gets a makeover. When I first arrived in London in the late 1980s, I would count the days until megalomaniac MP

THE GREAT EXHIBITION AND HOW THE CRYSTAL PALACE BUILT THE V AND A

THE GREAT EXHIBITION AND HOW THE CRYSTAL PALACE BUILT THE V AND A

If you’ve been watching Victoria Series 3, then you’ve recently come across Henry Cole, Prince Albert’s wingman in the creation of the visionary Great Exhibition of 1851. What you probably didn’t know is that the exhibition, dubbed The Greatest Show on Earth and housed inside the glittering Crystal Palace in Hyde Park, would one day

A TALE OF TWO CITIES

A TALE OF TWO CITIES

You probably know by now that I am too many nationalities to list and that I was “Born in Paris and Made in London.” I am a true Londoner now, a multi-cultural, multi-national mish-mash, and this city truly is where I belong. I’ve been a Londoner since 1988 (with a leave of absence in the

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