Category Architecture

Exploring the City

Abigail invited us out to Birmingham for the weekend. We both were going to go, but I just had some big things I needed to get done this weekend that would really help me over the next few weeks, so…

Arts to War

The very next day was another jammed packed day for Becky and I. We first tagged along with the SOA 200 fine arts course on their behind-the-scenes tour of the Royal Albert Hall. I had seen the building multiple times…

V-Day at the Palace

So, what do you do on Valentine’s Day. Go visit a palace! We decided to go visit Kensington Palace which is about a 10–15-minute walk from the Daniel House. We have walked past it and around it many times since…

Vienna – Part 1

We headed out for the DH’s big semester trip to Vienna, Austria. We were all looking so forward to it. We had to head to Heathrow airport at 5:45 in the morning and this was made a bit rougher as…

Vienna – Part 2

We had nowhere to be on the next day in Vienna and everyone seemed to really take advantage of that. Slowly many people made their way down to the free breakfast. We sat around and shared stories of different things…

York

The next day we packed ourselves up to spend traveling for the next 10 days. We then headed off to the London King’s Cross station. We then boarded the national rail train to York. Becky heard about York when some…

Scotland II

Train issues and calming landscapes made this day what it was. We had hoped to take a day and travel up to Inverness and just walk around there for a few hours. When we finally had time to look at…

The Tower

Ever since we have been here and have been reading, watching, and learning about the thousands of years of British history there is one place that keeps getting mentioned over and over again. The Tower of London. We first felt…