For this post the music element, which usually follows me when I travel around this time came to me way after the event. When I was wandering around the Capital on this little trip my head was full of nothing, literally I was just enjoying the moment, the sunshine, the peace in between the hustle of city life. Some refer to this kind of effect as 'mindfulness' i.e. being in the moment no cares or worries, just letting things wash…

So, a couple of weeks ago we popped along to Sadlers Wells theatre (not the one along by Kingsway as we originally thought), this branch of it is in Islington in North London, the journey was quite easy and we jumped a 214 bus just along by Finsbury Pavement for the journey up City Road to Angel station. We had plenty of time to kill before it started so we had a mooch around some shops and decided rather than…

There has been a bit of a weird weather dilemma here recently, as mentioned in my previous post the cold weather seemed to take a back seat a few weeks ago and then we were unseasonably blessed with a spell of really quite warm dry and sunny weather, which oddly enough came to a grinding halt after a lovely sunny Sunday. You are never sure what to wear! Anyway enough about that topic and renowned favourite British pastime and on…

Finally Spring appears to have sprung! The past week has been full of more calm weather here, the sun shining and when in it the rays feel just a bit warmer, it is obviously still not shirt sleeves weather but it is a welcome change from bitter cold winds and rain. We booked up a little walking tour up town late on a Friday night, admittedly we have done quite a few in the past e.g. The Ripper Walk Tour…

A recent trip around the capital took Mrs Akin and I to the Victoria & Albert Museum up in terribly posh and nice South Kensington. The trains were out for engineering work (sigh!) so we 'tubed' it up on The District Line, to be honest it wasn't to bad a journey (plenty of sitting though). By the time we reached our destination my a**e was telling my legs they need a walk. We hopped off and followed the subway to…