I’ve been delayed in posting updates to the blog. Our group arrived back in Oxford on Friday after a lovely week in the Lake District and Yorkshire Dales. I left early the next day to travel back to Lechlade-on-Thames with plans to finish the northward part of the Thames Path over the weekend, which I […]
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Our Study Abroad travel week concludes with a couple days in Hawes, a small town located in the Yorkshire Dales in far north England. I knew little about the Dales before we arrived yesterday. There is a new reboot of a classic British television series, All Creatures Great and Small that is filmed and set
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I love William Wordsworth (1770-1850). I didn’t think I would be devoting an entire blog post to him. In my undergraduate days as an English major I encountered him only in passing, in a British Literature survey course that I have little memory of. In those days my attention was on 20th century American writers,
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[Note: I am posting this on Tuesday, 10/24, though I wrote it on Monday. My posting for the next week will be sporadic, depending largely on access to the internet at the hostels where we are staying] Today was our first full day in the Lake District, a free day for students to wander and
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Regrets. I’ve had a few. I couldn’t get the Sinatra song out of my head yesterday as I was reflecting on my early morning commute from Oxford to Newbridge, the starting point for leg 9 of my ramble. The trip on the Thames Path northward from Oxford becomes increasingly rural, forcing me to rely on
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Yesterday (Tuesday, 10/18/2022) I continued my ramble southward toward London, journeying 12 1/4 miles from Staines-on-Thames to Hampton Court. I was feeling good by the time I arrived in Hampton, but the train station was so close to Hampton bridge I opted to stop my journey instead of traveling the 4 miles to Kingston. I’m
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