Despite the district's rather ill-famed reputation as an area of cheap and abundant drugs and lax policing, I loved it, and found a bracing and fascinating quarter that served as both the subject and the title of an as-yet-unpublished novel I wrote.
Rather, it was famed as an artistic, bohemian place with a history of flowering counter-cultures that spilled over and changed America and the world, from the beats in North Beach to the hippies in the hilly region of Haight- Ashbury to the gay rights movement in the Castro neighbourhood.
Rather than selling shares, the famed private-equity firm will base its listing on the New York Stock Exchange on the acquisition of its European affiliate, KKR Private Equity Investors.
As a consequence, a businessman has to trek for a conference not to Dijon, which is presented in the French original as a dreary place that no one would really want to visit, but to Leicester – a city famed for crisps rather than mustard.
Instead, they are famed absentees.
That the PP now runs many regions may not help, as some voters may start to see it as an incumbent rather than an opposition.Mr Rajoy is famed for a trait of his native Galicia: leaving people guessing about his real intentions.
My biggest obstacle as an athlete is not the famed cyclists of Europe, but rather the shortsighted policies of my own government that put utility profits ahead of public health.
No! There was a band who were ideally suited: "symphonic rock" band (or prog band, if you prefer – to outsiders the differences are hard to detect) the Enid, famed for epic instrumental interludes rather than breezy pop numbers destined for the charts.
Italian delis such as London's Nife is Life don't just stock the cured meats and creamy cheeses the country is famed for, they also carry rather less sophisticated treats such as Doria Jumbonetti – ham-flavoured cream crackers – and Pavesi Ringo chocolate biscuits, while Frenchclick in Wandsworth does a roaring trade selling Danette yoghurts and Miel Pops to customers cut off from Carrefour.
If his memoir has any enduring value, it is not as another offering of hollow excuses for an unjustifiable war but rather as a study in what the famed historian of European fascism, Hannah Arendt, termed the "banality of evil".
