Tower of London, The Ravens, and the Tall-Hatted Guards

Here are 3 of my favorite pictures from our visit to the Tower of London on Friday.

If these don't remind you of children's books, then you read the wrong books as a kid.









and he finally made it back to the Guard Post:

Bath

One of the highlights of this trip is the day trip to Bath. Many students always talk about how much they enjoy spending the day there. While we were later getting there than we had hoped, we did get to stay for nearly 5 hours. We chose to do the Skyline bus tour which was spectacular. It was quite cool on the bus since we were outside on the top uncovered section.

A stop into Sally Lunn's buns for lunch has become a must for us while here. They are seriously some of the best bread I've ever eaten in my life.

Michelle and I spent some time just walking around and taking some pictures. I had a blast.

Here is the slideshow of the pics I took:

Sunday Funday

I completely forgot to post anything for London on Sunday. We started the day at St Paul's for service. It was fantastic, as expected. The acoustics were amazing. We left there and went to the Tower of London to pick up tickets for everyone to use throughout the week. Then we separated from the group and Michelle and I went to Speaker's Corner, over by Marble Arch. I'll admit, I didn't have the highest of expectations for this, but it was remarkable.

Basically, since the 1800's, people have been going to this particular area on Sunday afternoons and "preaching/talking" about whatever topic they desire. The audience talks back. On Sunday when we were there, there was a Christian talking about Muslims and wife-beating, a Muslim talking about alcohol drinking, a woman talking about finding peace without religion, and another man who was discussing the coming period of peace. It was quite interesting. The audience took part far more than I was expecting. It was also remarkably civil.

Pics from Speaker's Corner.

Here's a link to the entire day.

iPad

Even the apps on my iPad are getting excited about going to London!

Preparing for England

We are getting ready to go to England again. I'm pretty excited. We are taking 23 other people to London, Bath, Oxford, and Stonehenge. 17 are students, which is quite a bit above @mishelleyb's goal of 10.

I've created a map of the places we are going to be and you can find that map here. I've also embedde the map below. I'll be updating my Flickr sets which are linked on each pin. You can find my Flickr collection for the trip here. Just remember that while I've created the collections and sets, there's really not any pictures there. I'm going to be adding images to sets each evening ( I hope).

Feel free to let me know what you think in the comments below.



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