Status Updates From Rather Splendid London Walk...

Eventually the two argued and Beau Brummel ended up falling out of favour before dying in France, as a penniless scruff with syphilis. It seems that dying this way was all the rage in the 19th century.

Originally the Burlington Gardens building was the headquarters of the University of London, which is why it has all these great thinkers and philosophers adorning it. No women, mind you, because obviously women couldn’t think in those days.

Rudyard Kipling was said to have finally finished The Jungle Book [in Brown’s hotel]. Apparently it took him many years…(yeah - well, I’m a slow reader myself!).