First field trip. Off we go to Kenilworth Castle with our new ‘tour guide’ a very jolly guy by the name of Mike Breakell. His tour style is to narrate whatever we might be passing at the moment so there’s just a wealth of local lore (or perhaps some of it was gossip) mixed in [...]
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Oxford – day four – Kenilworth
Posted in Oxford, Travel on July 25, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
Oxford – day 3
Posted in Oxford, Travel on July 25, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
Day three and I had some free time that morning.
The thing that shocked me the most about Oxford is that it really does not get rolling until about about 10 a.m. By that time everything is open, but you’ll still see the street sweepers making their rounds at 10:30.
Since all of our classes had been [...]
Oxford – day 2
Posted in Oxford, Travel on July 25, 2008 | 1 Comment »
Day two kicked off with a walking tour where our guide zipped around town explaining a bit of the city. We walked past the river Cherwell and she pointed out the borders of the old town and gave a bit of history. My favorite ’secret’ that she passed on was the view down Catte St. [...]
Oxford – day 1 and food
Posted in Oxford, Travel on July 25, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
Once we arrived in Oxford we met for lunch where we got our schedule. The girls were a little shell shocked from staying up over 24 hours. They rather looked like they were going to slide right under the table to the floor. It was a formal luncheon. This means there is a served meal: [...]
Oxford in general
Posted in Oxford, Travel on July 20, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
The course is British Medieval Castles and Fortifications, instructor James Bond. Yes, that’s James Bond. It’s actually his middle name. I believe he rather likes the notoriety. Our original instructor had some family emergency so it’s classes in the afternoons for us – backwards of everyone else.
Looking down at the street from my hostel the [...]
Zagreb
Posted in Travel on July 20, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
Early the next morning we piled into a bus for Zagreb. We could have taken the train, but buses in Croatia have air conditioning and they’re cheap and had proved reliable in the past. *insert crazy laugh here*
This proved to not quite be our day for Croatian buses. Things started off fine, then we got [...]
Split – day 3
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Our third day based in Split and our vacation was quickly coming to an end. We spent the day in town wandering through any unexplored corners.
We climbed the St. Domnius church tower – it’s got this very open staircase that follows the square walls. Rita defined this as ‘Croatian Fear Factor.’ It was a little [...]
Brac
Posted in Travel on July 18, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
Still based in Split we decided it was time to hit the islands again. The girls sunburns had subsided somewhat so we’d booked the early morning ferry to Brac (pronounced Bra-ch). We climbed onto the ferry and watched them load up with car after car after car. This thing is huge. It’s basically the bridge [...]
Split – day 1
Posted in Travel on July 18, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
The next day I had not booked anything. We had left space open to travel by island hopping but the ferry schedule was against us so we found ourselves back at the bus station at the break of day grabbing tickets for the bus to Split. Fifteen minutes later we were on our way. Two [...]
Mostar
Posted in Travel on July 16, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
After eating our hearty Bosnian meal we headed back to our rooms and planned our trip. The next day we set out early for the bus station and soon we found ourselves surrounded by fellow travelers thumbing through their copy of Rick Steves’ and wondering what they’d gotten themselves into. There were a couple Australian [...]
