Archive for May, 2010

TweetLast night was the heartbreaking second overtime defeat of Fulham FC by Atletico Madrid in the finals of the Europa League. The feeling when that Atletico ball hit the back of the net with less than four minutes left in the second overtime – minutes away from a penalty shoot out – was absolutely devastating. [...]

TweetOn Wednesday, my mother and I had booked a tour with Spoke and Motion – London Bike Tours for a unique view of Greenwich in east London. We started in Bermondsey, headed east along the Thames, stayed on the south side of the river past the Isle of Dogs and finally north again as the [...]

TweetIf Monday had been the City of London: The Grand History, Tuesday was the Devil Wears Prada version of London Tourism. We were going to be hitting some of the top shopping the city has to offer. We first hopped a number 10 bus which would take us east through High Street Kensington, all the [...]

Tweet Despite our brief foray in Kensington and Knightsbridge, my mother had yet to see much of London. I planned to fix that on Monday with a very ambitious tour of the centre of London, focusing on the famous historical and political centres of the city. With no regard for my mother’s poor feet, I [...]

Tweet There was not much that could have seen us up with the dawn, blearily admiring the architecture of the inside of Paddington rail station first thing in the morning after our busy day at Windsor aside from a day trip to Bath. Both my mother and I had selected Bath as our little city [...]


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Meaghan Fitzgerald is an American ex-pat now living in London, UK and working for tech start up Spoonfed Media as director of marketing. While The Top Floor Flat initially covered London sites and scenes, European travel and recollections on living abroad, more recent articles focus on start ups, business, technology and marketing.

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