London – Yanks in the UK https://yanksintheuk.net A blog about Kurt & Lynnette's adventures living abroad Sun, 21 Apr 2019 15:25:45 +0000 en-US hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=5.5.14 London Street Art and Books https://yanksintheuk.net/2019/04/london-street-art-and-books/ https://yanksintheuk.net/2019/04/london-street-art-and-books/#comments Fri, 26 Apr 2019 18:00:11 +0000 http://yanksintheuk.net/?p=790 Want to maximize your time in London and get off the beaten path to see London as few tourists do? Take a stroll along Regent’s Canal and see a truly unique bookstore, street art, a one-of-a-kind park, Victorian-era structures, canal boats, and locks and iconic Camden Market. London’s a big city and it’s impossible to …

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]]> https://yanksintheuk.net/2019/04/london-street-art-and-books/feed/ 1 St Martin in the Fields Candlelight Concert https://yanksintheuk.net/2018/10/candlelit-concert/ https://yanksintheuk.net/2018/10/candlelit-concert/#comments Fri, 19 Oct 2018 09:45:41 +0000 http://yanksintheuk.net/?p=533 One of my favorite spots in London is Trafalgar Square. Emerging from the claustrophobic Underground into the openness of Trafalgar feels like being transported into the beating heart of London. Street musicians perform to the accompaniment of buzzing traffic and locals and tourists alike bustle around the square. Nelson’s column pierces the sky, its feline …

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]]> https://yanksintheuk.net/2018/10/candlelit-concert/feed/ 2 Harrow-on-the-Hill https://yanksintheuk.net/2018/05/harrow-on-the-hill/ https://yanksintheuk.net/2018/05/harrow-on-the-hill/#comments Wed, 30 May 2018 18:00:27 +0000 http://yanksintheuk.net/?p=384 Our first six weeks here, we stayed in a small, functional-but-not-comfortable flat in Harrow. One Tuesday, I went for a walk and explored the area while Kurt was working. I put on my walking shoes and headed in a new direction, away from the shops and Tube station. I crossed the bridge over the train …

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]]> https://yanksintheuk.net/2018/05/mind-the-gap/feed/ 3 Royal Wedding https://yanksintheuk.net/2018/05/royal-wedding/ https://yanksintheuk.net/2018/05/royal-wedding/#comments Wed, 16 May 2018 16:08:38 +0000 http://yanksintheuk.net/?p=261 A question we were often asked when we told people about our upcoming move to London was whether we’d go to the royal wedding. Over thirty years ago, I spent most of the night on a sidewalk outside Buckingham Palace before the wedding of Prince Andrew and Sarah Ferguson. In the morning, we had a …

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]]> https://yanksintheuk.net/2018/05/royal-wedding/feed/ 2 Our First London Outing https://yanksintheuk.net/2018/05/our-first-london-outing/ https://yanksintheuk.net/2018/05/our-first-london-outing/#comments Wed, 09 May 2018 17:00:27 +0000 http://yanksintheuk.net/?p=218 Our first foray into London included a bucket list item (at least for me). In all the time I lived in England, I never went to Abbey Road and took a picture in the zebra crossing made famous by the Beatles. (Did you know that there are also puffin, pelican, and toucan crossings? More on that …

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