Writer's day out in London

"If you are tired of London, you are tired of life," said Dr Samuel Johnson, the sage who was not himself a Londoner but pretended to be one. Since I, too, was getting tired of life, I thought I would take Dr Johnson's advice and spend some time in London. The best way to wander around London is to throw yourself at the mercy of its buses and underground trains and go with the flow. You can change them as often as you like or when you feel you have had enough, rest your feet in one of the parks. The next day, you start again in another part of the town until your legs have had enough. I thought I would start with a cup of tea at Victoria station, a mile or so from the Parliament until I discovered the stall had disappeared. Across the road from the old stall was a

This article was originally published on October 23, 2021.