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...
Charles Dickens, William Shakespeare, Jane Austen, libraries, poems, plays and museums– these are all people and things that fascinate the Winona State English majors on this trip. As an outsider Education major, I had to adapt to learn about these things. Here...
Our East End tour wasn’t just about art. Our tour guide, Doug, discussed a lot of interesting points about this diverse community and its future. The East End is slowly being taken over by industry. Many companies are limited to where they can expand, since Britain is...
Businessmen, fashionable women, small children, creepy individuals and now Winona State students are all people who frequently use the famous underground tube system in the London area. The tubes are almost identical to the subway or metro systems in the United States...
The second to last day of our wonderful London trip was spent in the city’s most colorful area: the East End. Our group of 9 was split into 3 groups so everyone’s experience was a little different, but we all walked away with a greater appreciation and understanding...
In order to pay for fish and chips, British flag swag and excessive amounts of English breakfast tea in London, I took a temporary food service job earlier this summer. As I trained, all of the veteran servers gave me plenty of advice. I was told to smile and...
