Blogs from Oxfordshire, England, United Kingdom, Europe - page 38

To all of you who have written congratulating us on our wedding, please, please be aware that the photos were from a wedding that we attended before our travels and had been lying about on the travel blog un published. I was mucking about on the blog yesterday and decided to publish them. We are both still single, still seeing each other BUT definitely NOT married!! Ken... read more

This article has been re-published due to system failure. Saturday, July 21st: Milton Keynes came into our sights this day. We stretched our legs after seventy days of walking, having first moved north out of Dublin, walking up to Belfast, then riding east into Scotland. Starting from Faslane Trident Submarine Base just out of Glasgow, our United Kingdom exploration began. The footpaths and roads guided us south along the Irish Sea until we crossed up and over and into the Midlands. Now, a mere two weeks north of London, the days ahead seem to vanish quickly, and the completion of this pilgrimage for a nuclear-free future will end only to begin again. Milton Keynes is home to Honda-shonin, our accompanying Nipponzan Myohoji monk, and as we neared his temple in Willen Peace Park I could see ... read more

It is raining yet again today. Yesterday I went to Christ Church Meadow to see the flooding. It was crazy. Brasenose is located practically in the center of the city centre. We are a good distance from the Thames and Ibis. From our college, you would have no idea that there is any flooding whatsoever. Chirst Church is located right along the Thames. I took pictures and you'd have to see them to understand. But what looks like should be a pond or lake should really be grass. I'm not sure how deep it is. Along the path, it wasn't very deep. If it would only stop raining... Last night we went and saw The Rivals. It was the last play we are seeing. It was okay. I didn't particularly like the play to begin with ... read more

We just got back from Blenheim Palace. It was pretty neat. We did a short guided tour of the palace; they don't let you see as much as I would like and they didn't let you take pictures which sucked. There was another "tour" type of a thing going on upstairs but I didn't go to it-- and everyone told me it wasn't worth going to anyway. Instead after our tour I walked around the grounds of the palace. It was huge!! There was a "secret" garden, even though there were signs all over the place pointing to it, which was really pretty. I think my favorite thing was the rose garden. It was a massive circle with a statue in the center. There were rows upon rows of roses around this circle, and each row ... read more

So I found out yesterday was the most rainfall that England has gotten in a single day in over 40 years. There were flash floods everywhere! Angie was trying to get to Ireland and couldn't go because the train tracks to Birmingham were underwater. The underground in London was flooded. When everyone went to London yesterday, they got stuck in Hyde Park because of a flood. Tom took a video of it with his camera- it was crazy. It is raining yet again today. Yesterday I did a whole lot of nothing. I finished my Midsummer Night's Dream paper and finished reading The Rivals. I started my Rivals paper but had A.D.D and didn't finish it. Then I went to the gym for awhile and got completely soaked on the way there. We went out to ... read more