This journal includes part of my audio log as well as written entries after returning from the city. I’ve tried to edit out tenses, I may have overlooked some. Read the rest of this entry »
15 March, part 1
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Tags: Abraham Lincoln, Admiral Nelson, Admiralty arch, Anno Decimo Edwardi Septimi Regis Victoriae Reginae Cives Gratissimi MDCCCCX, big ben, Boudicea, Braveheart, Burghers of Calais, Charing cross, Daughters of God, Dietrich Bonhoeffer, dirt imported from Virginia, Duchess Elizabeth of Russia, Edward VII, Eleanor cross, Esther John, fodors, George Washington, Halfway to Heave, Houses of Parliament, Janani Luwum, King Edward I, King's College Gardens, Leicester Square, London Eye, longshanks, Lucian Tapiedi, Luftwaffe, Manche Masemola, Martin Luther King Jr., Maximilian Kolbe, meryl streep, mind the gap, Modern martyrs, Napoleonic Arc de Triomphe, Oscar Romero, Patrick McGoohan, Queen Eleanor, Queen Victoria, St Pauls, tower of london, Trafalgar Square, tube, Vauxhall Bridge, Wang Zhiming, Westminster Abbey
Categories : UK Trip
Westminster Abbey, Part Three
15 03 2011This picks up after leaving the Nave and moving through an outdoor hallway/garden area (the Cloisters) to the Chapter House. Read the rest of this entry »
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Tags: apocalypse, capuchin monk, chapter house, cloister, college garden, eastern wall, gothic, john northampton, last judgement, London, monks, oldest door in britain, pyx chamber, saint catherine's garden, Sistine Chapel, Westminster Abbey
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Westminster Abbey, Part Two
15 03 2011This picks up at 27 minutes and 43 seconds in my audio journal of Westminster Abbey, having just left the area where the Coronation Chair should have been. Read the rest of this entry »
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Tags: Anne, Anne Countess of Warwick, Anne of Cleves, Anne Stanhope Seymour, Blitz, Bronte sisters, Catherine Grey, Charles Dickens, Charles Lutwidge Dodgson, Chaucer, Countess of Oxford, Duchess of York, Dylan Thomas, Edward Earl of Hertford, Edward the Confessor, Elizabeth the First, eyes were dim with tears for those who were dear to him beyond the whole race of womankind, Hamlet, Handel, Henry and Jane, Henry the fifth, Is all our life then but a dream, Jane Austen, Joseph Rudyard Kipling, Keats, King David, King Richard the second, Lady Burleigh, Lancaster, Lewis Carroll, Lord Byron, Mary Katherine and Elizabeth, Oliver Goldsmith, Oscar Wilde, Philippa, plantagenet, Poet's Corner, Queen Anne, Richard the third, Robert Southey, Saint Moses, Saint Paul, Saint Peter, Science Corner, Shakespeare, Shelley, Sir Isaac Newton, Tempest, the cloud kept towers, the gorgeous palaces, the great globe itself, The Nave, the solemn temples, Thomson, Throne of ENgland, Westminster Abbey, Wordsworth, yea all which it inherit shall dissolve and like the baseless fabric of a vision leave not a wreck behind
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Westminster Abbey, Part One
15 03 2011For Westminster Abbey, I chose to keep an oral diary of sorts, recording my thoughts as we toured the church. This entry is long, and likely of limited interest. But as it is part of my trip journal, it is included in my blog. Read the rest of this entry »
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Tags: beati pacifici, boy king Edward, Bromley, buttresses, Captains William Blane, Catherine, Chapel of Saint Michael, Charles John, Christian martyr, coronation chair, countess of Lennos, countess of Sussex, Daubeney, de Colchester, Diocletianus, Dorothea Nevill, Earl Canning, Earl of Oxford, Earl of Pembroke, Edward IV, Edward VI, Elizabeth I, Elizabeth of York, Erasmus, ex nobili domini, ex nobilia familia, Frances, Francesca Burgess, George Canning, Henri de Vere, Henry and Elizabeth, Henry I, Henry VII, Henry VIII, innocents corner, James V, James VI, John Holmes, King Charles II, King Charles' I, King Edward, King Henry the fifth, King William the third, Latin, lion wearing a crown, Madame Tussaud's, Margaret Beaufort, Margaret Stuart, Mary Queen of Scots, music boxes, Order of the Garter or Bath, Prince George, Queen Anne, Queen Mary, Queen Mary the second, Richard Harounden, Robert Peel, Rosslyn Chapel, Royal Air Force, Saint Mary, Sanctus, Scotland, St. John the Baptist, stone of destiny, the Confessor, the Earl of Chatham, Thomas Cecil, Tudor roses, Umbria, Viscount Palmerson, Wales, Westminster Abbey, William Blair, William Pitt
Categories : UK Trip, Uncategorized
Arriving in London, again, for the first time.
15 03 2011I’d been advised by a few online friends to not venture into London earlier than 9 unless I wanted to deal with London rush hour, which they assured me I did not. So this morning we slept in til 7 am! We took our time getting ready and decided to give the breakfast buffet at the hotel a whirl. Read the rest of this entry »
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Tags: big ben, cornish sausage, ealing, fodors, London, London Eye, m4, mind the gap, natbank, north ealing, rbs, richmond, tube, vauxhall insignia, Westminster Abbey, ziggy stardust
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UK or Bust!
23 08 2010My daughter has aspirations to become an archaeologist and since she was about 7, she’s had her dream college selected. It’s in Wales, Cardiff University, and we’ve mentally planned out going over to visit the campus and meet with an instructor or admissions staff a few times, but it wasn’t even close to a reality until this past winter when I realized that she is entering high school and I am about to graduate college myself. We’ll have very few opportunities to take off and visit if we don’t do it soon, so we began narrowing down to a when and settled on the spring of 2011. It will serve an alternative need too, as I need to go to the UK to visit all of the places I have dreamt of seeing for so long. Read the rest of this entry »
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Tags: Abbey Road Studios, Alnwick Castle, Bath, Beer, Bishop's Palace, Boltby Scar, Boudicea's Statue, Bovey House (at Beer), Britain, British Museum, Cardiff University, Cerne Abbas, Charles Dickens' Museum, Chelmsford, Chesters Roman Fort, Church of Beere, Dublin, Dulwich Picture Gallery, Earl's Palace, Edinburgh, Edinburgh Castle, England, Firth of Forth, Glastonbury Tor, great britain, Hadrian's Wall, Hay-on-Wye, Holy Island, Kilburn White Horse, Lindisfarne, Lindisfarne and Holy Island, Liverpool, Loch Ness, London, London Eye, Madame Tousaud's, Morton-On-Swale, Old Man of Hoy, Old Sarum, Orkney Islands, Paris, Parvin Farm (at Foxton), Ring of Brodgar, Rosslyn Chapel, Roulston Scar, Scotland, Seahenge, Sherlock Holmes' Museum, Sherwood Forest, Skara Brae, St Gregory's Church (at Seaton), St Helen's Church (at Morton-On-Swale), Stanwick, Stonehenge, Stones of Stenness, Tantalon Castle, Trafalgar Square, Uffington, UK, Wales, Westminster Abbey, Whaligoe Steps, Whitby Abbey, Woodhenge
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Mundane Excogitations 