On the last night of the conference, Tuesday, they put on a big event for us at Navy Pier with a blues band, cash bar – but we got two drink tickets at registration – and lots of food. Plus silly games like bumper car bikes, and balloon animals. And, this time I got back […]
Like I said there was a lot more food provided at the computer-type conference than is the norm at librarians ones. So the only night I really went out for dinner was Monday. After the meetings ended, and to get a little exercise, I walked up Michigan Ave. to the big Borders. I bought a […]
I’m in Chicago for a conference, a users’ group for the software that U of Wisconsin (and lots of other people) are using to deliver their online courses. As a theme, because we’re in Chicago, they’re calling it “Architects of Education”. I’ve been thinking it’s really the first non-librarian conference I’ve gone to in a […]
Easter Sunday. We slept in a bit – we’d gone to bed on the late side after after-movie cookies and ice cream. There was some yelling in the street – I was surprised that Easter Sunday morning wasn’t completely quiet. Silent as a tomb – ha! I did get a “happy zombie Jesus day” text […]
Saturday was sports day. We got up and fortified ourselves with a full English breakfast at the Camden Bar & Kitchen, probably the most neighborhood-ish, least tourist-y place we’ve been at. It was perfect, a nice walk and everything, except I lost an earring. Then we tubed over to Emirates Stadium, the Arsenal stop on […]
On Friday, we tubed & walked to Buckingham Palace, and looked at it from the outside with masses of other tourists. I really think all the English people are gone for the 4-day Bank Holiday, leaving the city to us foreigners. We had to do some finagling to get the Arsenal tix delivered, because the […]
On Thursday, we took the boat – Thames Clipper – to Greenwich. We walked around with the other tourists, and came back by train, and went into the tower of London. At the Tower, we caught the last Ranger guided tour of the day, and got a Ranger with a good sense of humor, or […]
We took the train from Waterloo out to Hampton Court, and unlike our trip in 2004, we paid the prices of admission and walked around inside. They are celebrating 500 years since Henry VIII stole the place back from Cardinal Wolsey; we actually ran into the King himself in the halls. No English royals have […]
Was lunch at the River Cafe. Like I said, it was awfully hard getting up Tuesday, and by the time we were really moving, it was time to tube over to Hammersmith Underground Station, and try to find the Thames River Walk, to our 2:00 reservation. We got seated and it really is as lovely […]
We arrived at Heathrow at about 7:30 a.m. Monday, March 29. We had to shuffle through the passport check, then got our bags, took the train to Paddington, and then a taxi to our apartment in Camden. We got settled then went to the close-by Waitrose and bought some food – cheese, pears, buns, yogurt, […]