Au Revoire, London I

More precisely: A revoire. I have not been to The National Gallery at Trafalgar Square, missed seeing Caravaggio's "Supper at Emmaus" and Jan Van Eyck's "The Arnolfini Wedding", I didn't sip a Spanish Sherry at Gordon's (47 Villiers Street), London's oldest wine bar. City Secrets London is my guide of choice and in it, Author and Journalist Victoria Glendinning describes it in an image forming manner: "I love this place for its triumphant seediness, among so much that is brash and new and smart. The facade is so unassuming that you can pass it without seeing it. Downstairs, half the tables are in candlelit darkness, under black, damp arches." While David Hughes a writer, describes his experience there: "A basement entered by neck-breakingly narrow stairs, this fine and squalid place also debauches a few awkward steps onto a shadowy alley where I loll, tumbler of fino in hand, with my back to gardens of Thames embankment." With descriptions of the sort, it is no wonder I feel melancholy, having to depart leaving all the unexplored and un-experienced behind. My next few entries will be a list of the "un-had" of London.