Tag archives: London

London Treasures and Tips
By Leslie Westbrook   |   July 8, 2025

This girl never tires of London.  My perfect day in London would include walking as much as possible, popping into rare bookstores, antique shops, and art galleries, attending an auction at Bonhams, Christie’s, or Sotheby’s, and lingering in a museum or two. A “must” is catching a play and listening to jazz at Ronnie Scott’s. […]

A Swell Slumber in Surrey at Lord Beaverbrook’s Manor: If these walls could talk… but they don’t have to…
By Leslie Westbrook   |   August 27, 2024

If it’s good enough in this century for Madonna, Sir Paul McCartney and Zendaya, (whom I just missed by a day) – and in the past century frequent visitor Winston Churchill, as well as U.S. Ambassadors Joe and Rose Kennedy, Rudyard Kipling, H. G. Wells, W. B. Yeats, and other political and literary movers and […]

Dear Montecito: Sierra Willard
By Stella Haffner   |   November 12, 2020

Much to my disgust, this week’s letter is from yet another wonderfully gifted visual artist. Meet Sierra Willard, current student at University of the Arts London and Laguna Blanca alum.  High ranking on the list of things I’m not good at is drawing. Any type of drawing. My freshman year of college, I was in […]