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stephenjrountree
- Jun 30
- 4 min
Walkable Paris: A Day Based Around Shakespeare and Company.
Trail-Stop One: Shakespeare and Company. Sylvia Beach founded this bookstore in 1919 and is the reason some of the Lost Generation became...
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stephenjrountree
- Jun 17
- 3 min
London Dining To Electrify Your Trip. Plug In Anywhere.
ANGLER. A modern Michelin dream of shiny ceilings mirrored to reflect not just our merriment but the blood and sweat and tears of the...
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stephenjrountree
- Jun 15
- 8 min
How To Do The Stately Homes of England - from London.
The English nobility used to be the cool kids of the planet. Rockefeller and Vanderbilt were lucky to build custom homes as grand as the...
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stephenjrountree
- Jun 10
- 4 min
Walkable London: Day Trip To Stamford.
Trail-Stop One: King’s Cross Station. Out of King’s Cross station (and the good folks at the ticket counter will know what to do and set...
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stephenjrountree
- Jun 9
- 4 min
Walkable London: Day Trip to Cambridge.
Trail-Stop One: Kings Cross. In terms of intellectual achievement, Cambridge University is like the old general who snaps at the...
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stephenjrountree
- Jun 8
- 6 min
Walkable London: Day Trip to Edinburgh.
Trail-Stop One: Kings Cross Station. When J.K. Rowling was deciding how wizards would get from London to Hogwarts, she chose for them a...
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stephenjrountree
- Jun 7
- 4 min
Walkable Paris: An Evening based around The Eiffel Tower.
Trail-Stop One: Cafe L'Eclair on Rue Cler. You stretch before a run so tonight at this cafe you'll stretch your mind and your heart and...
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stephenjrountree
- Jun 7
- 6 min
Walkable London: A Good First Day in London based around St. Paul's Cathedral.
Trail-Stop One: Borough Market. I'm not sure where 1970's New York went, but at times I feel like how 1970's New York must have felt when...
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stephenjrountree
- Jun 6
- 4 min
Walkable Paris: A Day Based around Musee Rodin.
Trail-Stop One: Coutume Cafe. The place to start a morning with Rodin or any day in Paris is at Coutume Cafe. The coffee sculpted here...
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stephenjrountree
- Jun 5
- 9 min
Walkable London: Featuring Buckingham Palace, The Ritz, The Wallace Collection, and Daunt Books.
Trail-Stop One: Buckingham Palace. Prince William is a rescue helicopter pilot, is inheriting billions of dollars worth of land and...
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stephenjrountree
- May 28
- 2 min
Walkable Paris: A day based around Musée Carnavalet and Place des Vosges.
Trail-Stop One: Musée Carnavalet. In the Marais, one of the oldest parts of Paris and in fact so old the knights templar walked some of...
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stephenjrountree
- May 19
- 6 min
Walkable London: Tower of London paired with Greenwich and Mince Pies.
Trail-Stop One: Darwin Brasserie. Thirty six full floors up at the Darwin Brasserie, which is the middle restaurant of the three floors...
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stephenjrountree
- May 12
- 3 min
Walkable Paris: Based on Jacquemart-Andre Museum.
Trail-Stop One: The Dining Hall at Jacquemart-Andre Museum. Unlike other museums of this caliber that I could mention, and which rhyme...
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stephenjrountree
- May 9
- 4 min
Walkable London: Based on Albert and Victoria Museum.
Trail Stop One: Victoria and Albert Museum. Start at the Victoria and Albert museum in Chelsea, which is a museum dedicated to the sole...
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stephenjrountree
- Apr 26
- 3 min
Walkable Paris: Based around Musée Marmottan Monet.
Trail Stop One : Musee Marmottan Monet If the phrase, “They have a Monet’s Waterlilies,” has ever enticed you into a museum in New York...
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stephenjrountree
- Jun 29, 2021
- 3 min
Borough Market
On hot London days, when the London streets offer no relief from the sauna of the tube, there’s a better than not chance I’ll stop for a...
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stephenjrountree
- May 31, 2021
- 2 min
Spotlight On My Favorite Places: The Tate Modern
The Tate Modern is a free museum in an industrial power building that used to power London with electricity and in my opinion and in that...
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stephenjrountree
- May 29, 2021
- 4 min
A Walkable London: Based Around Tate Modern and Tate Britain Museums.
Trail Head: Put in at Regency Cafe. If you're looking for a quintessentially British start to the day then start your day at Regency...
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stephenjrountree
- May 28, 2021
- 2 min
My Favorite Places – Tate Britain.
Oh yeah, the young, free spirited Tate Modern has an older sister who cannot only offer deeper, more mature conversation, but is just as...
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