Days Before Leaving
It is now less than a week before Becky, my wife, and I head to the airport and fly to London for the next 4 1/2 months. We are very excited, but we have a ton of stuff to get…
Category Travel
Travel Days
Monday/Tuesday Jan 13-14, 2025 Becky and I were up early, maybe in some ways too early. We both got ready and then just started doing random things around the house, many most likely did not need to be done, but…
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…
Dover
We had a couple of days, and we tried to decide what to do. We decided one we would go to Dover. Of course, the day we decided to go was one of the windiest, most overcast, misty and chilly…
Richmond End of the Line
Another very overcast, misty, very windy day greeted us, and we decided to take another adventure. We did not hurry out and late morning we hoped on the District tube line and headed out to Richmond. It is so amazing…
Quick Trip
We made a very quick one day trip up to Birmingham. Abigial and Mark had tickets to attend a Superbowl party on Sunday night. Over here this means that kick off is 11:30pm BST. Thus, Jamie needed someone to stay…
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…
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…
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…
