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My two forays into the village (one for food and one on my run) made me want to wander around possibly with a camera. The village is on a hill and there are little pathways and stairs all strewn about that probably go interesting places. I started out with an aim to take pictures of…

Again, I’m mostly just working…  but I did visit the grocery store at lunch. I’m super proud of me for completing a transaction in German. She probably knew I couldn’t speak German but she said everything in German: “Hello”, “whatever the total price was”, “whatever my change was”, “would I like the receipt”, “some parting…

No problems at all getting to the conference place (which is very adorable, not as movie-set like as England but pretty close, only I don’t know so many movies set in small villages in Germany…). We (meet at San Fran Coffee Company colleague and I) kind of forgot that we had said we would get…

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…

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…

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…

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…

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…