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 [...]
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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 [...]
Weekend in Paris
Last weekend, the first after classes began, a couple of faculty members, about thirty students, and I sped south on the Eurostar toward Paris. This is an awesome way to travel: convenient, smooth, and fast. We were quickly in Paris’ Gare du Nord where we met our tour guide for the day. We began our [...]
London Day 7: The British Museum
I took my World Literature Students to the British Museum on Thursday, July 25. They were there for several hours, but I spent the entire day in this great museum. For the first half of the day, I re-familiarized myself with their collections, particularly the ones I asked my students to concentrate on: the ancient [...]
The Chandos
Today, I had the best lunch meal of my travels yet. It was bangers and mash at a pub called The Chandos right near the National Gallery. I took my students to Westminster Abbey, and then let them lunch on their own. I probably did this because I wanted to go to the pub. I [...]
London Day 5: Westminster
My first field trip (on Tuesday, 6/23) was with my London as Text class, and we visited the Museum of London. I don’t know about you, but I get museum fatigue after a few hours — usually around three. And three hours was just enough time to take in the Museum of London. In fact, [...]