Quiet Days
Had a couple of nice quiet days. Becky came back from visiting Abigail and family, and I met her at the train station, and we came back and went out for a pub dinner. The next day we had our…
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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…
Birthday Weekend
Our daughter Abigail is a groundhog birthday person. She hates it, but it is what it is. Her husband Mark flew to run in a race in Boston in the US and she had been working a weeklong evangelistic outreach…
Morning Walks
Many mornings I get to go for a long walk in the Kensington gardens. It is so lovely and large. I wrote about them earlier, but I have taken a few pictures on these walks. Sometimes the sun is not…
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…
CWR – Underground
I am using WWII and the technologies that were developed during the war to help students understand computer science. We are focusing on all the amazing accomplishments the people of the UK did during this time. So many of their…
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…
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,…
Revisit to CRW & Temple
Next day was pretty tired for everyone after arriving back in the London so late. Some students had to head out in the morning for their internships. There were no classes in the morning which helped some sleep in a…
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…
