The walk across Waterloo Bridge offers my favourite view of London. In one direction you can see Big Ben and the Houses of Parliament, whilst in the other direction stands St Paul’s Cathedral and a jagged high-rise skyline. Below your feet the River Thames powers along with surprising force and speed. But on this dreich […]
‘Anna Karenina’, Phoenix Cinema, London
East Finchley tube station is a station worth lingering at for a few minutes, instead of bolting out of it the instant you have stepped off a train there. The station building is wonderful. Standing on the platform is like stepping back in time to the 1930s. Designed by Charles Holden, one of the country’s leading […]
‘An Italian Straw Hat’, Barbican Cinema, London
With this being a Sunday, Smithfield Market isn’t trading today. But you can still walk through the impressive central passageway, its elegant ironwork painted in vivid pink and purple, the dramatic bright colours like those of Hockney’s recent landscapes. It would be good to return here early on a weekday morning when the market is […]