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Saturday, April 30, 2011
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Thursday, April 28, 2011
Tour around bits of kings College and Pembroke today. The chapel at kings is amazing, the ratio of glass to wall is very high. It has graffito from Cromwell's visit still visible and Ann Boleyn's initials in the carving. Pembroke had nicer gardens and it's chapel tho small is a Christopher Wren. All the
flags flying today as the Queen was visiting
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flags flying today as the Queen was visiting
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Wednesday, April 27, 2011
Cambridge was humming today compared to the public holiday I arrived on. It's a real bicycle town and they swoop and whiz everywhere. Tourists were out in some numbers as well although they tend not to whiz. As part of a crowd I wandered along the streets and backs of the town the petals falling are so thick they coat the water in places. Narrow streets and tall stone and brick buildings bounce the noise of confident youth proclaiming itself down the footpath. I really can't imagine studying amidst all this glorious tradition and beauty
You would have to ignore it completely or be overwhelmed. How to be both envious and yet horrified at the thought of being presented with this as a fresher
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Tuesday, April 26, 2011
Ely today, wonderful cathedral but our friends the Victorians were very busy there so all is not quite as it seems, still it's absolutely fabulous and great fun. Went down to the river where masses of long boats were mores at the pubs by the side of the Great Ouse.
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Monday, April 25, 2011
Sunday, April 24, 2011
I love Canterbury such a tourist town, wandering around in the half light at 8.30 at night with everything humming. Gulls wheel over the town and although the Cathedral is prominent it doesn't rule the town as the Pagan Pride parade yesterday proved. Commercialism is the true god I think. So many coffee and cake shops and ones selling really comfortable shoes in attractive designs and colours. Lots of charity shops as well as churches. There are Anglicans, Catholics, Anglican-Cathlics, Quakers, Methodists and Uniting as well as all the churches now used for something else, fun.
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Friday, April 22, 2011
Today was Dover Castle. I climbed the hill from the town, bad idea, even walking down was a bad idea. But the castle was pretty amazing and covered all periods. There seems little trace of the iron age fort but the Roman, Anglo Saxon, medieval, early modern etc are all there to enjoy. I did the secret war tunnels tour the medieval and napoleonic spur trip and climbed the great hall, then visited the roman light hose and the Anglo church, restored by Victorians who you can't trust with a pile of bricks. My brain is full and my knees hurt, so I must have had a really satisfactory day.
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Thursday, April 14, 2011
Syracuse, the scene of the tragic end of Athenian ambition. We passed Etna on the way , vast and seemingly peaceful after the violent Roman mosaics
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Hampton Court
They were filming Jack the Giantkiller there today so the main court was full of sheep and goats while by the river horses lurked. Its a funny mixture of Tudor meets Stuart then Georgian. The gardens are fullof strange flowers and the whole place was subject to waves of school kids screaming through rather like demonic posession
Tuesday, April 5, 2011
London
Clear but chilly when I arrived. In to town achieving oyster card on the way, comes without instructions but the locals are tolerant of the fumbling. Hard to look like the sophisticated traveller as you activate the gates next door and fail to get your own gates to open. I am always so pleased to be a stranger in town. None of these folk know or care if I make a complete cake of myself. It was far too early for the hotel to be ready tho they happily took my luggage, lucky luggage it was very comfy in that office. Aching with the trip and pretty groggy despite at least six hours of broken awkward dozing I lurched out into the day. Vodafone does not get up early so off to St Giles in the Fields, cmpletely surrounded by highrise, some interesting Australian connections Balmain buried there. Also poets Chapman and Marvell. Had to buy a scarf as the wind was sharp. Phone was set up by the nice people and off I went. Decided to look at the National Gallery, so wonderful, pity they don't allow photos, even the interiors are worth a shot, richly grand but sufficiently austere to let you enjoy the art.
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