tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-667348909154981284.post5701682912176926495..comments2024-03-20T06:55:57.193-07:00Comments on Born to Blog by Beth Kaplan: My night with Reg bethhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09122791819498272634noreply@blogger.comBlogger2125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-667348909154981284.post-33324082074539155792015-04-10T01:01:00.433-07:002015-04-10T01:01:00.433-07:00Yes, exactly - the millions standing smoking in fr...Yes, exactly - the millions standing smoking in front of pubs - so totally unthinkable in Paris. So very different yet so close. Wonderful to visit. I'll be glad to get home too, however.bethhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/09122791819498272634noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-667348909154981284.post-82050082333110334702015-04-09T15:03:13.825-07:002015-04-09T15:03:13.825-07:00I LOVE the Soanes House! Yes, thank goodness for c...I LOVE the Soanes House! Yes, thank goodness for collections (though of course they were also pillagers, weren't they?), and with such a quirky sense of how to extend the perspectives of their collections -- the mirrors, the Hogarths in those amazing moveable frames. He and his wife were also involved with the Foundling Museum (as was Hogarth, and Handel...). An amazing time to be a Londoner, I would think. Well, that would be true of any time, wouldn't it? When we were there in mid-February (also returned for a few days a month or so later), I remember the crowds in Leicester Square when we came out of the Kinks play -- just thousands and thousands of people, all talking and laughing and moving towards their destinations, or not (many just standing in front of pubs with drinks and cigarettes), and somehow it all works pretty well. theresahttp://www.theresakishkan.comnoreply@blogger.com