Looking Back on our Trip
Wednesday 26 March 2008We’re back in the states. We had a great time during our week abroad, but now it’s back to the daily grind. Unfortunately, getting Internet wasn’t as easy as I expected. We found lots of WiFi connections, but nearly all of them were password-protected. So I didn’t get to keep a travel-blog, but we did take a lot of photos along the way. You can check them out here. Some of you may know that I’m a bit of a GPS-geek, so I’ve also geotagged the photos here.
Our trip started in Cambridge, where my brother, Mark, lives. We spent Day One touring about the campus of Cambridge University. The colleges extend throughout the city. We took a walk throughout many of the most historic and scenic areas, and ate a local pub. We spent Day Two in Windsor, the weekend home of the Queen. The main attraction in Windsor is, not surprisingly, Windsor Castle, which is so tall it can be seen from all parts of the city. We spent the next two days in London. Unfortunately - or fortunately, really - you can only begin to scratch the surface of the city in two days. We did check out Westminster Abby and the Tate Modern, and we walked around the scenic Thames area (Big Ben, the London Eye, and Parliament). It wasn’t as much as we would have liked, but hopefully touring London will be much easier soon. Finally, we spent the rest of our trip taking it easy in Cambridge.
We are very grateful to Mark for opening his home to us while we were visiting, and offering to take the couch for the whole week. Traveling to the UK is very expensive these days, so saving on a hotel bill probably made the difference in whether we could have come at all. Cheers.
