It’s difficult for me to fully express how excited I get about going to a library. This is a sentence that is probably rarely said by people who aren’t studying literature but I can vouch to the world that it is sincere. I could go on for pages about why libraries are...
After talking to (or rather listening to) so many tour guides about the “True Nature of the English Experience,” I was eager to talk to some unpaid locals. Not to say the tour guides haven’t been amazing. We had one recently that both whistled and read out of...
Stonehenge! As in, the actual Stonehenge! Not pictures, not videos, not a background shot in a TV show, the real deal! Wow. Our visit to Stonehenge was one of the most thought-provoking day trips we’ve taken for a number of reasons, but mostly that I just can’t figure...
Elvis is playing on the jukebox. The smell of French fries (or “chips” if you’re posh) is unavoidably mingling with the distinct musk of cigarette smoke. We are ushered into the basement of The Diner on an average Saturday night. I order pancakes,...
This morning I got the opportunity to experience the most interesting social event in all of my years as a functioning adult (Oh yes– all two of them.) We took the tube this morning to the Speaker’s Corner in Hyde Park. None of us really knew what to expect...
