Well, after an entire month (give or take a couple of days) my journy has come to an end. Not only was today my last day in Paris, but its my last night in London. This does not mean, however, that I actually get to do anything else in London. No, in many ways my last 'night/day' in Londonw as Thursday the 17th, as it was my last chance to do a few things before Paris, and now before coming home. Yesterday was probably the single best day I've had on this entire trip, which is odd because though Paris was [View Full Entry]

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I'm in Paris! We left out of London at 6 am this morning, had the train ride on the chunnel and everything, and ended up in Paris at around Noon. Which, was actually 11 am London time, but Frace is 1 hour ahead, so for those of you keeping score at home, that's 7 hours ahead of CST. AKA its 4:30 pm CST now, and its 11:29 pm in Paris, and 10:29 pm in London. My timezones are all over, jet lag is going to be bad... Anyway, we got here at noon ish, and got on this 3 hour tour....a [View Full Entry]

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The last couple of days have been interesting and fun. Tuesday afternoon Clara and I went to ‘afternoon tea’, which is quite the works of cakes and sandwiches, couple with tea of course. Clara doesn’t much like tea, but I sure do. It was fun, but Clara came ill whilst we were out and about, so we had to cut our tea break, and thusly our night, short. We had planned to see Wicked that night (the musical) though that has no been bumped to tonight (I have the tickets here). She is feeling much better, I might add, though yesterday [View Full Entry]

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The title contains two unrelated events, and well, maybe a bit of an exaggeration on the latter part. Let me clarify: This morning (Tuesday 7/15/08) I woke fairly early and decided to pop into town to mail the last of my postcards (by the way, family reading this - I've gotten word a couple of you already have your postcards, to the rest of you, yours should be there any time now, I mailed them all at the same time). My preferred post office is across from a McDonalds (a very nice one with funky chairs and neat wood tables inside), [View Full Entry]

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Back again to London! What a disaster the return trip was! On the way TO Dublin, someone jumped in front of a train, so we had to wait 2 hours or so to leave. On the way back, the train moved onto a no-power line, and we had to sit in the dark for 2 and a half hours! So we missed the tubes since they stop running at midnight or 11 on Sundays I think. But Virgin paid for taxis for us, and we made it in around 3 am London time. So, after an all too short trip to [View Full Entry]

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We're in Ireland!! Thursday I had it all planned out for us to leave on a train from London Euston to Holyhead wales. We departed at around 8, due to train delays (someone jumped in front of a train and killed themselves at a station, so they were all delayed.). We arrived in Wales at 12:45 am. We had a 2 hour layover, then we boarded this massive ferry (more like a cruise ship) for Dublin. It was a 3 hour ferry ride, of which we slept most of it on the couches in the lounge. Once we arrived it was [View Full Entry]

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Lots going on still! Sadly there are no pictures allowed in the King Tut exhibit, the Tate Modern, or the Lion King production. Thusly, the pictures for this blog are limited!!! Monday was just a class day, then catchup on homework day. Tuesday we had class in the morning, but I got out early, around 1. James and I hopped trains to the 02 dome down by the Thames in North Greenwich. They have the "King Tut" exhibit there, and both James and I are interested in Egypt. While I have seen most of the King Tut stuff, he has not, [View Full Entry]

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Yesterday (Sunday the 7th) was a long but fun and interesting day. We departed campus at around 9:20 am, on big coaches set for stonehenge and the city of Bath. The original plan was to go to stonehenge first, then to Bath, but because of rain, we diverted to Bath first, then did stonehenge. Took 2 and a half hours by bus to get there, so that wasn't much fun. Bath is a really interesting place. It was founded by the romans 2000 years ago, because of its hotsprings that welled up from it. They built a bath-house around the largest [View Full Entry]

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Hi all! Today was amazing! Just as cool as yesterday, though, we also walked another 7ish miles today. My feet are killing me!! Clara is calling me a slave driver at this point, but you have to walk if you want to see anything... Well today we did a lot! We got up early, took the rails to the trainstation, took trains all the way to Windsor Castle! The Castle was amazing! It is the worlds largest lived-in castle. The Queen still holds residence there (though, again, she was out :(..) Anyway, it was really stunning. Check the pictures. Once again, [View Full Entry]

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Today, the 4th of July, was probably the most exciting and amazing day we've had yet in London. Though, I must confess, it was also the longest and hardest. We walked probably around 10 miles today. Up and down and all around Central London (See the 'dragon statues I've included) to the Tower of London, all around the inside, to London Bridge, across London Bridge (on foot this time), to Westminster Abbey, all around the Inside, and then all over Hyde Park (350 acres). We started early, at 8. I guess I'm a slave driver, but I knew we had a [View Full Entry]

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