-
Day 6: traveling part 2
Copenhagen Airport. Arriving here is pretty cool. Over the water. There’s a fort on an island, a super long bridge, apparently Sweden is right across from here. The coolest Copenhagen Airport feature: passport control with a stamp to transfer planes. Next I located lunch: pizza with chicken, spinach, and potatoes. Again with the Visa no…
-
Day 6: traveling
No traffic this morning so we stopped by Lancaster Castle. It has a portico? the gate thing in front of the doors. Super cool. Similarly super cool: at the train station… a Harry Potter steam train (not my train, but one that came in to the station while we were waiting. The station sans steam…
-
Day 5: my last day in England
I’m off tomorrow morning (have to leave at 5:45 AM for the train station for a 10:15 AM flight, which arrives Copenhagen at 1:15 PM and leaving there at 3:45 PM, arriving at the airport in Stutgart at 5:20 PM, whereupon I’m hoping to meet up with a colleague who knows the airport — we…
-
Day 3 and 4: Medieval castle, narrow roads, running, and accents continue to be amusing
Yesterday: Medieval castle in Skipton, which is in Yorkshire where people talk like Wallace and Gromitt. Castle – super cool, looks like a movie set. But it actually is 900 years and also it withstood a three year siege during the civil war (1643-5). I learned how come it’s a pair of pants (because it…
-
Day 2: The Lake District, the olympics and continued reasons why ambassadorships are probably not in my future…
Yesterday: Hairdryer, adapter for the three-pronged computer power cord problems solved (or sorted …). Continuing on in Disney England headed north (I think) to the Lake District. Today more of a Pride and Prejudice, Darcy’s Pemberly england than a Harry Potter england of yesterday. Formal gardens and a tea room (two). Lunch at a restaurant…
-
Day 1
Yesterday, I arrive Manchester airport and am immediately amused how everyone has a British accent. (I was similarly amused with Southern accents before I got used to them living in the South). No problems getting through passport control, luggage arrived, slept reasonably well on the plane… just all puncuated by me forgetting to listen to…