I'm home, by the way. I suppose I should mention that.

So, where is mecca for a Children's Lit nerd and an undergraduate with a sense of history? Oxford, of course! With its zillions of colleges under the giant Oxford University umbrella, it was easy to get lost. Luckily I did two back to back 2-hour walking tours with about half an hour in between left for lunch... 10 minutes of which we spent ( Read more... )

Sorry that I haven't updated my journal for you guys in awhile... Trust me, I've got lots of pictures to upload (Oxford and Hanson(!!!) and general last-time-in-London stuff)... just no time in which to do it. I promise they'll be posted soon, as soon as I can justify a lengthy break from papers that isn't filled with eating, sleeping or tomorrow ( Read more... )

In case you were all wondering what the heck I did with the whole birthday thing so many kilometeres from home, I shall recap. ^_^

( Twenty-one. )

So, I have about a month left, and now that the schedule is out, I've discovered have some time between the old EXAMS!SCARY!AAAAH! period and the LASTDAY!OHNOES!... so my dear Katie#1 and I decided that we're going to get our silly selves up to Scotland for a couple of days. We knew we wanted to see as much of it as possible, as cheaply as ( Read more... )

I'm back from my crazy Mid-Term Trip to Brussels and then Paris. 5 very very long days with a lot of time spent sleeping on a coach or blowing my nose and feeling miserable. My tip for the world: Don't get a really bad cold a few days before you have to travel non-stop. You won't enjoy yourself nearly as much. If I had any other advice... don't ( Read more... )

I had a few hours in London to kill and Justin and I decided to check out the London Eye, since it finally opened back up for business. We walked across the river and are confronted with mass confusion and many different queues. We decide to take action, and pretend its the Amazing Race. A road block ( Read more... )

There are some things you can't put into words, kids. Dublin was silly and expensive and fun and I only have about half the pictures that were taken with me in mind, since my camera is a battery-sucker and I ran out and didn't want to buy more when I had some here at the castle ( Read more... )

I appear to be at a hostel in Dublin. One hour taxi to the airport, 45 minute flight from Gatwick and about 45 more minutes trying to get Euro cash and find a bus to take us to the hostel. Cyndy and I have wandered around all evening and no one else is here yet. The Katies and the other girls aren't going to show up here til after 11, we assume ( Read more... )

There isn't a whole lot to say about Bath and what we did and saw there, especially with only half of the intended pictures to show you. When I get the 2nd half from Morgan's camera (we realized we often took pictures of all the same stuff, and were wasting batteries and card space every time we went anywhere.)

So, okay, ( Bath pictures )