London

I got my first impression from the British Isles when flying in 1991 to Manchester (to attend a conference in Springfields) via London. When approaching Heathrow, Windsor was directly below. In 1994, I spent a holiday week, living in Knightsbridge near Hyde Park, beautiful. Besides the many MUSTs (Buckingham Palace, Big Ben, Trafalgar Square, British Museum, Tower, again Windsor, Westminster Abbey, St. Paul's, Picadilly Circus, Madame Tussaud's) I remember one day when going (by foot) through the Docklands to Greenwich with its observatory, museums and Cutty Sark sailing ship. Excursions led to Oxford (by train) and by bus to Leeds Castle, Canterbury, Dover. Another day, visiting botanic Kew Gardens was really worth time. The same year, I had to/could attend as substitute a conference in York. Afterwards I spent the weekend in London again: otherwise I had missed the flight. I experienced a strike for the first time, when sitting in the train towards London. The hotel near Picadilly was interesting too. They tried to have not got my (discount) in advance booking, of course offering generously another room, and during the night there were at least 5 wrong fire alarms. Besides, I made excursions of one day - each by train - to Brighton and Cambridge. Another trip to the South Bank in 1996, that time approaching Heathrow parallel to the river Thames and vis-a-vis Houses of Parliament, allowed me to make a weekend excursion to Salisbury, Stonehenge and Bath. And it was for the first time that I had to escape a railway station because of a bombing alarm.

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Esztergom/Hungary, 1988-2001	Caucasus 1978	St. Petersburg 1978

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The following destinations were visited during some long/medium-term stays in the corresponding regions of London, Provence, Bavaria. Note: the pages that follow the links below do not belong to this website. Visitors are requested to inform on ownership when clicking.

Colleges at Oxford	The Roman Nimes	Medieval heritage at Regensburg
White cliffs and the castle at Dover	Arles of Van Gogh	Merchant's tradition of Augsburg
The medieval city of Canterbury with its cathedral	Red rocks of Roussillon	Tradition and high-technology at Munich
The picturesque Leeds Castle of Anne Boleyn	Lively harbor of Marseille	Castle, churches and German history to be experienced in Nuremberg
The Roman Bath	Romantic Montpellier	University and industrial life in Erlangen, little chateau
The maritime resort of Brighton	Roman theatre at Orange	Natural resort of Fränkische Schweiz with pittoresque rocks and valleys
Mysterious Stonehenge	Nature resort of Camarque with its famous white horses, black bulls, and flamingos	Little Venice and medieval town architecture at Bamberg
Cambridge colleges	The looming Gordes on a rock	Bishop's town of Würzburg, vineyards along the river Main
Salisbury cathedral	The former pope's residence of Avignon	A whole town as a museum: Rothenburg