June 30, 2006 York Do you like history? You will like York! Do you like history? Are you the type of person that likes to know everything about history? Do you like seeing medieval ruins and amazing sites? Well, if you answered yes to all of these questions you will probably like York. We certainly Read More »
For breakfast, I had what Michelle normally has, which isn’t incredibly different from my own. She has a cup of English tea and a crumpet with some jam. I selected Apricot Jam, which was to become a pattern anytime I was given a choice. I became a fan of the crumpet, which apparently is very Read More »
Alex, my roommate at St. Giles Hotel stumbled throughout the hotel (walls are paper thin and I could hear him a couple floors down at our friends’ rooms). In the morning, he couldn’t find his passport = uh oh. I woke up at 8:30 AM to get some breakfast that was paid for. I had some weird Read More »
Today I woke up early to make sure that I would make the bus trip, sponsored by Butler, to Bath city. It was a long 3 hr bus ride out to Bath city, all the way across the island. I fell asleep in and out along the trip but the scenery I did see was Read More »
Getting up at (approx) 7:30am for breakfast wasn’t that bad. We got coupons for breakfast, which would normally cost around 10 euro (I guess). Really nice buffet with mostly everything you could think of for a European breakfast. Took my time working in a few croissants, some bread, a boiled egg and some fruit. Got Read More »
Day 1 – The London Eye, Greenwich We arrived in London Waterloo and found our hotel, which was right next to the London Eye, in the old County Hall. It is a great location, so central to many of the things that we wanted to do. We said goodbye to Shannon, who went back to Read More »
Wednesday, June 21, 2006 London, England First impressions of London would definitely involve the history We’ve’walked ‘til we’ve dropped’ for two days in London now. It hardly seems possible that we are here, but here we are! After our first day I asked David, Karsten and Stephanie what words would describe their first impressions of Read More »
Well it didn’t look all that promising this morning. It was grey and overcast but warm, so ideal really for a walk. My brother had decided to head off to the Yorkshire Dales, a beautiful part of the county made famous by television programmes like All Creatures Great and Small and Last of the Summer Read More »
After our morning Eurostar fiasco, we arrived in London: the land of the football (soccer) crazed fans, C’mon England! I became an England fan in 2002 during my first trip to Europe and we were in London during that World Cup (held that year in Korea, but Leicester Square was insane). We didn’t have any problems adjusting Read More »
After spending nearly six weeks locuming at Colchester General it was time to move to a new job in a new field of practice, in a new town closer to London, but still in Essex county. My new job was at Goodmayes Hospital, a mental health facility, where I’d be working with predominantly elderly clients. Goodmayes is Read More »
