Problem
How do you find my favourite restaurant in Pinner?
How do you find my favourite restaurant in Pinner?
This is Pinner, looking downhill towards the station on the left, which is beyond the
High Street leading to the church. On the left immediately to the left of the picture foreground is St Luke's.
Looking uphill, the sign of Osteria Modigliani is on the right. Opposite, on the other side of the road, is Lidl supermarket.
For more details of Osteria Modigliani, see my earlier post.
Before or after you have lunch, you might want to look around Pinner. If you come out of the station and cross the road you are at the entrance to Pinner Park. On a fine day, it's very pleasant to walk across to the pond and the aviary. Walk around to the other side of the pond to see the building housing the Heath Robinson Museum. Heath Robinson was a cartoonist who drew amusing complicated contraptions. Even if you don't have the time or money to visit the museum, you would enjoy looking at the bookshop and maybe buying a postcard or book or two.
Back on the Station side of the road, instead of turning left towards Osteria Modigliani, go up the other street ahead of you. On the right is the old Victory pub, named after Nelson's victory, and now a restaurant. On the left is another old pub in Tudor style.
The Bizarre Coffin In The Sky
At the top of the High Street is a church with the coffin in the sky, a coffin in the middle of an obelisk. Why? Because of a will saying about somebody being underground. To get around the will, the coffin was kept above ground.
Pinner has been in quite a few films which you might have seen in cinemas or on television. I like to think of it as pretty Pinner.
From Pinner, you can take the train to Harrow on the Hill and if you have the time and energy walk uphill to see Harrow on the Hill, pass the Castle pub, and the quaint shops and the old school Harrow, where Churchill went to school. In summer the boys wear straw hats. The school has a museum and museum tours and other events.
If you take the train into London, you can stop at Baker Street for Madame Tussaud's or the Sherlock Holmes Museum. As Jonson said, "Whoever is tired of London is tired of life."
For more details of Osteria Modigliani, see my earlier post.
Also see my posts on Umbria, Perugia, the City of Lovers and Valentine's Day.
Author, Angela Lansbury, travel writer
No comments:
Post a Comment