Same place, different time: Appreciating today’s London through Chaucer

Literary works ,art, poetry and other creative forms of discourse always offer interesting insight into the history of great cities: what shaped them in the past and what has sustained them to the present. I just noted that the area that I set up camp a few days of the week in London, close to…

A year between the Seine and the Thames

So, the past few months have been a bureaucratic roller coaster ride: waiting in long queues to submit forms, returning to submit missing papers from dossiers, holding the line for the next available operator, clicking next on online application websites, paying fees for everything imaginable under the sun. I am not completely out of the…