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Monthly Archives: July 2011
Unusual Musicals from the 18th C and the 21st C
John and I went to the Regents Park Open Air Theatre (where in the past we’ve seen plays like Midsummer Nights Dream and Two Gentlemen of Verona) and watched The Beggar’s Opera by John Gay.[1] He put his libretto to … Continue reading
Compare and Contrast
Last Friday we took the train to the London Temple with most of the students and did baptisms for the dead (the boys are James and Joe). This is the only photo I got because I was the only faculty … Continue reading
Thames Valley Tour
Photography has been interesting on this London stay because I feel no pressure whatsoever to take pictures. I have six previous trips’ worth of photos for myself, every other person on this program has their own digital camera/ blog/ Facebook/ … Continue reading
Schiller, Ibsen, Chekhov, and Zombie Macbeth
John and I continue our tradition of not paying any attention to what we are seeing until after we get there–that is, not even knowing who wrote the play or when it was first performed. John looks up positive reviews … Continue reading
Rob and the Kids in London
It’s been great to have niece Milinda and then Rob, Johnathan, and Colette here. Rob and Milinda had been here before, of course, so I needn’t have worried so much about them finding their way from Heathrow/Gatwick to 27 Palace … Continue reading
Roses, Teeth, and Speech Therapy
We usually spend our anniversary at one of the rose gardens when we are in England in June. This year we missed the full flush of the first bloom, but they are still lovely in Queen Mary’s Garden in Regents … Continue reading
The Lake District
We stayed at Waterhead on the shores of Windermere, which is as beautiful as it sounds, in a hostely kind of way (that is, creaky floors, dubious showers, and noisy French 13-year-olds overhead at 3am. But you can’t have everything.). … Continue reading
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Edinburgh
I’ve posted before on Edinburgh here, here, here, here, here, here, here, here, here, here, here, here, here, here, here, and here. It really does feel like I’ve said everything I want to say, taken every photo I want to … Continue reading
York
It’s so odd to be riding in a 56-seat coach again, going on the “North Trip,” the “Southwest Trip,” and so forth, stopping at the motorway services, checking out the multivarious and interesting loos. We had another great coach driver, … Continue reading
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