The Renaissance of a Rock Hotel – The Columbia. Walking from Lancaster Gate to the Columbia Hotel, you might wonder, like me, why you’ve heard of it but never been there. The five townhouses that make up the hotel were built between 1856 and 1857 in the French Rennaissance style. Grade II listed, the hotel […]
The Beauty of Bermondsey – Staycation at Bermondsey Square Hotel
Bermondsey Square Hotel and the Bermondsey Antiques Market: A charming part of London, Bermondsey is somewhere that would probably not have been on your radar twenty years ago or so. There are several parts of London which, when I first moved here, were so unfashionable as to be totally unknown even to someone as démodé […]