Interests: Interests
General: Literary
★★★London's great Gothic abbey is packed with the tombs and monuments of British monarchs and some the world's most famous playwrights, poets, scientists, and other notables
★☆☆A collection of the English language's greatest books and manuscripts, from Beowulf to Beatles lyrics by way of the Magna Carta, Shakespeare, James Joyce, and more
★★★
★★★The postcard Oxford college, film template for Hogwarts and home to the Oxford cathedral
★★☆Favorite Southwark pub filled with cozy snugs and literary associations just a block from Shakespeare's Globe
★★☆
★☆☆A small, free city museum of London life, Victorian and Pre-Raphaelite art, and Roman ruins in the basement
★☆☆Famous Harry Potter sights, filming locations, and moments from the Harry Potter books and movies
★☆☆From the Sherlock Holmes Museum (a mock-up of Holmes's and Watson's rooms at 221b Baker Street in an actual Victorian-era boarding house on Baker Street) to Holmesian tours of the London streets
★☆☆One of the oldest libraries in Europe is spread across Oxford in a series of historic buildings
★☆☆The oldest college at Oxford has great architectural heritage and JRR Tolkein memories
★☆☆A vast park in North London, with lovely views, wooded rambles, swimming ponds, cozy pubs, and Old Master art in a genteel manor house
★☆☆
★☆☆A rambling, 150-year-old Greenwich pub with decent grub, Dickens associations, and a small terrace overlooking the Thames
☆☆☆The Hampstead home where Freud spent his final year retains the actual couch Freud used during psychoanalysis sessions
☆☆☆The house in Hampstead where John Keats wrote his most famous poems and met his love, Fanny Brawne
☆☆☆John Keats' most famous poem, written while in resident at the Keats House, perhaps while sitting at the Spaniards Inn
☆☆☆This London rail station was catapulted to fame as the location of Platform 9 3/4 in the Harry Potter books and movies
☆☆☆This actual Victorian boarding house at 221b Baker Street is a (contrived, but fun) recreation of how Holmes' and Watson's home might have looked
☆☆☆A museum dedicated to Bath's most famous resident author and the Regency period in which she lived
How Oxford's spires (and pints in a local pub) helped inspire Tolkien's Middle Earth
The original tea party on an Oxford riverbank inspires a beloved fantasy realm
London's great Gothic abbey is packed with the tombs and monuments of British monarchs and some the world's most famous playwrights, poets, scientists, and other notables
A collection of the English language's greatest books and manuscripts, from Beowulf to Beatles lyrics by way of the Magna Carta, Shakespeare, James Joyce, and more
The postcard Oxford college, film template for Hogwarts and home to the Oxford cathedral
Favorite Southwark pub filled with cozy snugs and literary associations just a block from Shakespeare's Globe
A small, free city museum of London life, Victorian and Pre-Raphaelite art, and Roman ruins in the basement
Famous Harry Potter sights, filming locations, and moments from the Harry Potter books and movies
From the Sherlock Holmes Museum (a mock-up of Holmes's and Watson's rooms at 221b Baker Street in an actual Victorian-era boarding house on Baker Street) to Holmesian tours of the London streets
One of the oldest libraries in Europe is spread across Oxford in a series of historic buildings
The oldest college at Oxford has great architectural heritage and JRR Tolkein memories
A vast park in North London, with lovely views, wooded rambles, swimming ponds, cozy pubs, and Old Master art in a genteel manor house
A rambling, 150-year-old Greenwich pub with decent grub, Dickens associations, and a small terrace overlooking the Thames
The Hampstead home where Freud spent his final year retains the actual couch Freud used during psychoanalysis sessions
The house in Hampstead where John Keats wrote his most famous poems and met his love, Fanny Brawne
John Keats' most famous poem, written while in resident at the Keats House, perhaps while sitting at the Spaniards Inn
This London rail station was catapulted to fame as the location of Platform 9 3/4 in the Harry Potter books and movies
This actual Victorian boarding house at 221b Baker Street is a (contrived, but fun) recreation of how Holmes' and Watson's home might have looked
A museum dedicated to Bath's most famous resident author and the Regency period in which she lived
How Oxford's spires (and pints in a local pub) helped inspire Tolkien's Middle Earth
The original tea party on an Oxford riverbank inspires a beloved fantasy realm