I have this memory. When I was a little kid, there was a Christmas market in our rural hometown. My parents gave me and my siblings some money to spend on Christmas gifts. Making my way through the vendor booths, I found myself staring at a luminous, cheap, fake diamond ring. It was little more […]
[Note: I wrote this post last Thursday after arriving back in Oxford. I didn’t have time to upload pictures before our group left for London, so I am only now posting. A complete set of pictures from leg 14 of the ramble may be found here] When my oldest son Theo turned nine we bought
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Yesterday our Study Abroad group enjoyed a lovely early Thanksgiving meal together. It has become a Study Abroad tradition, prompted primarily by the fact that most of us are traveling during the Thanksgiving holiday. Our plans went slightly awry when Jacque sent me a message in the morning that she tested positive for Covid. Her
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I woke up early Thursday morning looking forward to a “light” 10-mile ramble from Putney Bridge to Tower Bridge, the heart of London. The day did not turn out as I expected. The trip to London was just fine. I took the 5 AM Tube to London, getting off at Notting Hill, just a short
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I miscounted the miles of this journey. After leg 11, I figured that I had hiked 145 miles of the Thames River Path, leaving me just 40 miles to complete in the London metro area. However, reviewing my map prior to leg 12 I discovered that I was in error. The distance between Hampton Court
It’s that point of the semester, friends. There always comes a point in a Study Abroad semester where the feelings of wonder and excitement about the newness of your temporary home begin to converge with this aching sense that you are not where you belong. Homesickness begins to set in. Five weeks out from my
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