Grand Staircases of London #1 (The Courtauld Gallery)

Dear Reader(s),

Welcome to my first London post – we’ve finally made it here together!

After spending all this (virtual) time in Paris, I have, alas, run out of bloggable* (look at the end of this post for a definition) material about the City of Lights, and I am led to believe that moving on to talk about the Big Smoke – the city I actually do live in – might prove a beneficial change for this fledgling blog. My tagline also mentions I’m a London Tour Guide, so there’s that too …

Today I have decided to start talking about the grand or – as I like to call them – dramatic staircases of London. This will be an on-going series on the blog and I’ll be looking for suggestions from you on which places to visit next. Sound off in the comments below!

The winding staircase in the Courtauld Gallery at Somerset House.

Paying a visit to the Sun King at Versailles (Paris Part 1)

It’s a bit ironic that while being a London tour guide, I have decided to write first about my relatively recent trip to Paris first. Wouldn’t it make more sense to start off this new (ad)venture of mine, at least to some extent, with a feature on the Big Smoke? Probably, yes, but no … Never one to play by the rules (I wish), I’m going to keep the boundaries and scheduling of this blog fairly open for now – after all, I am the proverbial king of this castle! (Translation: expect off-topic ramblings, TfL-style delays between posts and more than one or two flights of fancy.)

Oh Mon Dieu, speak of being locked up in a gilded cage!