Greenwich Time
The first trip for the class I am teaching, Introduction to Computer Science, was off to the Royal Observatory in Greenwich. To make the trip out there more enjoyable than just riding a tube train, we rode an Uber boat…
Category Art & Design
Little Venice & Broken Things
Right before we got on the plane to come to London, Becky started to have problems with her phone. The screen would become this green pixelated display, and you could nothing with it. I looked it up on the web…
People Days
The next couple of days were busy with people. Perry and Fiona invited us to meet them at the Museum of Natural History and to see the Wildlife Photographer of the Year exhibit. We met them for lunch first at…
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…
Hamstead & Richard
We decided we just wanted to take a slow easy day. We slowly got our act together and traveled up to Hamstead Heath. Becky had already been once on her own, but we decided to go up on this cold,…
Mess Up & A Day at Cambridge
The next few days were a bit scattered. Becky made a quick one day trip up to Birmingham to give Mark and Abigail a little break as they both were not feeling well, and Jamie was doing great. She ran…
Bletchley & B-Day
One of my favorite places to visit while in the UK is the National Museum of Computing, NMOC, at Bletchley Park. As I thought of teaching the Introduction to Computer Science class in the London, this location was going to…
Pre-Break Hurt
I spent one day just plowing through all the work I needed to get done before running off for spring break. Becky took advantage of the wonderful spring like weather that was coming into the London area. She got outside…
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…
