The Solitary Walker

To London for a few days . . . On Wednesday evening it was the Old Vic with  Kristin Scott Thomas and Diana Quick in Ian Rickson '...

Inside the British Museum . The circular construction on the right is the restored British Museum Reading Room, which stands in the centre...

The giant bright-blue cockerel (by German sculptor  Katharina Fritsch ) on the fourth plinth in Trafalgar Square. It joins the august comp...

Old and new: St Paul's Cathedral, Blackfriars Bridge, modern skyscrapers. Brigitte from Berlin. St Paul's and the Millen...

To Tate Britain on Millbank . . . The Tate has just reopened its doors again after a two-year refurbishment. The result is simply stunnin...

Winter Wonderland : Hyde Park's Christmas market and funfair . . .

Posh shop in Piccadilly: buy your champagne and caviar here. A rather classy hotel in Piccadilly. Drinking fountain, statue of D...

I've been around iron all my life ever since I was a kid. I was born and raised in iron ore country where you could breathe it and smel...

I arrived home yesterday after three days in London. I took not a bus, nor a taxi, nor a tube train, but walked everywhere — much the best ...