travel
It’s amazing that these six weeks in Oxford are almost over. I’ll be heading back across the Atlantic on Friday morning, and my first visit to Europe will have come to a close. It was great to finish up my last journalism paper yesterday, and I’m working through my final paper on witchcraft […]
Despite a big delay spent at the Starbucks in Borders waiting for the bus, we eventually set off for the Montacute House, 2 hours late, around 11AM on Thursday afternoon.
The Montacute House is a 17th century, Elizabethan-era, home surrounded by gardens. It also featured an extension of the National Portrait Gallery’s collections with paintings […]
Leaving in 10 minutes for an excursion with Archer and the English Reformation tutorials. I’ll be back late Friday night.
Let’s do the recap itinerary style!
7/28/06 - Day 1: Friday
8:00AM-11:15AM - Buy tickets, make reservations, eat breakfast, and get a load of laundry done.
11:30AM - Leave Oxford for England, accidently sitting in the first class cabin
12:55PM - Arrive in England
12:56PM - Dash across town on the tube from Paddington Station to Waterloo
2:15PM - Leave […]
Here are some notes from my weekend trip to Paris until I get around to writing a full recap.
The return to driving on the right side of the road was nice. I could look left when crossing the street and not worry about getting run over.
Nobody really follows the traffic laws, but somehow I […]
After an incredibly long return trip from Paris to London to Oxford full of rushed subway exchanges, packed trains, fit-throwing British kids, and restless napping, I’m finally back from my first trip to the continent. Physically and mentally drained. More to come…
ETA: 4:00pm
We boarded the 12:30 train to Reading, excited for our daytrip adventure to Salisbury.
Foreboding rain clouds taunted us in the distance, but the rain was nice enough to hold up until our next stop. We accidently went 20 minutes in the wrong direction after Reading and ended up getting off at a stop right […]
After gathering at the Porter’s Lodge to receive our bag lunches (I ended up with some bizarre, disgusting beeftip salad sandwich), the Grady group started off towards the train station around 11:20. We took the train into London, tube from Paddington -> Oxford Circus -> Chancery Lane and walked about 10 minutes to the […]
After a few hours in the library last night, I spent the morning again reading Rex’s Henry VIII and the English Reformation for my tutorial. I’m heading back to London in 20 minutes with Hollander’s class to visit the ITN studios for most of the afternoon. My first real TV studio visit should prove to […]
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