by Virginia Lloyd | Sep 28, 2007 | Blog, Memoir
London’s weather this week has been wild and woolly, necessitating a desperate search through my lightweight t-shirts and capri pants for something appropriate to wear. On Wednesday, Maria and I set off in our jeans and trenchcoats to Kew Gardens, where an...
by Virginia Lloyd | Sep 27, 2007 | Blog, Memoir
What a slack blogger I’ve become in my “vacation” month. Anecdotes, photos, experiences, sights and sounds and smells are piling up one on top of each other like pages from those free newspapers that litter the Underground daily; yet I have failed to...
by Virginia Lloyd | Sep 24, 2007 | Blog, Memoir
So much for my waistline – on Sunday, during an overnight trip to Winchester (absolutely beautiful and not just for its Cathedral), I managed bangers & mash for lunch in a gorgeous renovated pub, then a prawn curry a few hours’ later at the home of my...
by Virginia Lloyd | Sep 21, 2007 | Blog, Memoir
These treats are what the residents of Basque country call pintxos (pronounced pinch-oss), the delicious and colourful treats that pass for dinner in the far north of Spain. Here, lunch seems to be the main meal of the day, so by day’s end the locals are looking...
by Virginia Lloyd | Sep 20, 2007 | Blog, Improve your writing
I might be writing from London, I might have returned this afternoon from the north coast of Spain, but my first US byline has appeared today in a NYC publication – see this Time Out New York piece about Cory Treadway’s photographs of ice shanties that are...
by Virginia Lloyd | Sep 20, 2007 | Blog, Memoir
Wow. I don’t think I could have been more impressed if I were standing directly across from the Pyramids. Having always been in awe of Frank Gehry, seeing his Guggenheim Museum up close and personal in Bilbao, northern Spain, was almost spiritual in intensity....