Category: United Kingdom
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London
We’ve spent the last few days kicking around London. Mom found an online offer for a three day transit pass (that lets you use any bus, underground, or train) together with a one day London Pass (that grants you free admission to a number of the London sites). Friday we spent the afternoon at the…
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The C. S. Lewis Tour
Wow! summarizing Ron or the tour he gives is hard. Ron greeted us at the start of the tour and set about learning all of our names. He seemed a very amiable sort of chap. We started off by getting the history (and pre-history) of the tour. This part of the tour never really ended.…
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Old and Older
Yesterday we went to Salisbury and saw the Cathedral, the majority of which was built between 1220 and 1258. It is really hard to imagine how something so large, something so tall could be built in such a short time without the heavy machinery used today. Just in case that was not enough to marvel…
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Old Books and a Tire Tumor
This morning Nathanael and I went for another run. The one footpath we took proved to be nothing more than a pair of gates at either end of a field. There wasn’t any worn down dirt path connecting the two gates. All this to say that I got stung by a stinging nettle. Prior to…
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In and Out of Town
This morning Nathanael and I went for a run. It was beautiful. Morning mist, new flowers, rabbits, deer. The dirt path was nice for running. We drove into London this morning for church. The bad news was Asher was pretty sick so we left him and Nathanael out at our place of lodging. The good…