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london

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y i like camden

One evening I sat Beauty on my knees And I found her bitter And I reviled her. arthur rimbaud like

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in kensington gardens

commisioned by j.m. barrie, the author of peter pan — the little boy who wouldn’t grow up, from sculptor george frampton in 1902, installed in kensington

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urban myth

The anthropologist respects history, but he does not accord it a special value. He conceives it as a study complementary to his own: one of them unfurls

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30 st mary axe

with holland house — opened 1914, designed by the great dutch ‘father of modernism’, berlage like

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notting hill carnival 2008

… carnival is a pageant without footlights and without a division into performers and spectactors. In carnival everyone is an active participant, everyone communes in the carnival

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notting hill

living in notting hill at the time of the movie of the same name with julia roberts and hugh grant, i dutifully went to see it at the notting hill coronet.

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england’s green and pleasant

on parliament hill <p>spring arrives early in london. only to disappear again, just as quickly. a sunday walk on parliament hill, highgate, and hampstead</p><blockquote><p style=“line-height:

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train

t r a i n this is the first post i made here. about thirteen years ago. i had no idea what i was doing really, didn’t

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