Anchors Away
So, I hate to do two self-centered posts in one week, but here it goes.
Next time you hear from me, it will be from London. I fly across the Gulf Stream late Sunday night, and will not be returning to the States until the middle of August, just in time for school to start up again. Beginning next week, I will be working as a summer intern for Finch’s Quarterly Review, based in the West End between Regent Street and Savile Row.
The Inelegance of Travel
This past week I traveled home from University, and must say I was more than a bit appalled by what I saw in the airports and on the planes. Now this was no long trek – a simple hour and a half flight, followed by a short thirty minute connecting flight with just an hour layover in between. Should be uneventful, right?
Archive at No. 1
This past November, I was lucky enough to be invited to No. 1 Savile Row by Mr. James Sherwood (who’s book, The London Cut, I posted on just two weeks ago), for a look around the Gieves & Hawkes archive room. In late 2008, Mr. Sherwood was asked by Mr. Gieve to help consolidate his life’s work, gathering as much as he could about the history of his family’s great house.
