Row of colorful surfboards standing upright on a wooden rack with palm trees in the background.
Palm tree and electric bicycle in foreground with people on sandy beach at sunset.
Coastal scene with rocky shoreline, palm trees, and a seaside building under a partly cloudy blue sky.
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London For History Nerds Like Us

What I love the most about London is that it is a city of juxtaposition. Towering skyscrapers next to a 1000 year old castle. Roman walls and traffic jams. Narrow streets with names like Poultry Ave, Pudding Lane, Crutched Friars, and Ironmonger Lane, in a city with some of the most expensive real estate in the world. You can buy a $130M yacht at Harrods, or drink a pint at a tavern that was rebuilt in 1666 after the Great Fire. While I love all the modern aspects of this city, my history loving heart skips a beat just thinking of all there is to see in London.

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London Calling…A Love Affair

Depending on your interests, London Calling can either reference the BBC identification during World War 2, or the song by the Clash, released in 1979. I like to think of it as the anticipatory buzz that I feel when I know I’ll be visiting this great city.

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