Last Friday, Dan and I took about forty students to Oxford and Christ Church. It was a beautiful day (again!), and Oxford was very photogenic. Between the architecture, the people, and the landscapes, I’m not sure my camera had much rest that day. Out of 316 photos, I marked (and posted) 178 — over half. That’s a damn good average for me.
Archive | July, 2009
London Day 21: Thames Cruise to Greenwich
My World Literature field trip was screwed up today. Not the one we actually took, but the one I had planned. We were studying the Enlightenment this week, with examples from Molière and Pope. Therefore, I decided to go to Marble Hill House, an 18th-century mansion on the Thames, west of London. Well, apparently the [...]
London Day 19: The Tower and the Church
Our field trip for this day took us to the Tower of London and St. Paul’s Cathedral for examples of English crime and punishment throughout history. I asked my students to take the Beefeater‘s Tour of the tower, something that’s always entertaining. I’ve visited the tower several times over the last 15 years, and I [...]
London Day 18: The Shakespeare Walk
One of the two scheduled walks for our trip (the other is the Jack the Ripper Tour, which I missed), the Shakespeare Walk began in London proper and continued in Bankside. It was a great tour: we crossed the London Bridge, saw the George Inn, several alleys mentioned by Shakespeare and Dickens, the site of [...]
London Day 16: Hampstead Heath
Last Saturday (7/4/09) found Todd and me in Hampstead Heath looking for a “free jazz concert.” Well, we hearing the concert from atop Parliament Hill was enough. The sun was bright and warm, so we lingered. The concert was anything but “jazz,” so we didn’t pursue any further then where we were. The walk through [...]
A Day in Canterbury
Last Friday (7/3/09), Dan and I took a few students to Canterbury for the day. I hadn’t been there since the mid-nineties and never with a good camera, so it was a no-brainer for me. The day’s weather started out a bit gray and threatening, but the sun soon broke through as the train raced [...]
London Day 12: Westminster Abbey
Today, my class and I went to Westminster Abbey and the National Gallery. Neither allowed pictures. Booo! However, I did take some of the abbey on the outside (they can’t tell me what to do there, eh?), including the cloister and the gardens, and I added some others to my Westminster gallery, including some more [...]
