On Friday, I had another college tour, but by comparison, it makes Syracuse University’s founding in 1870 look like yesterday. I went with other SU students to Oxford University, after a brief stop at Blenheim Palace (pronounced BLEN-hem), the home of the 11th Duke of Marlborough. BLENHEIM PALACE A gift from Queen Anne to John [...]
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Blenheim Palace, Oxford Offer Views Into English History
Posted in Beyond London, tagged bicycle, blenheim palace, city of oxford, covered market, duke of marlborough, gothic, john churchill, medieval, mexican food, oxford university, portraits, queen anne, syracuse university, the mission, travel, winston churchill on February 27, 2010 | Leave a Comment »
Buyer Beware: London Is Not A Cheap Place To Study
Posted in Travel Advice, tagged abroad, alcohol, battle, bus, clubs, coffee, costa coffee, cutting back, dollars, exchange rate, expenses, expensive, faraday house, food, fortnum and mason, london, oystercard, pounds, pubs, starbucks, stud, syracuse university, taxi, tesco, travel on February 25, 2010 | Leave a Comment »
You may have noticed I include prices in almost every post I write for this blog. There’s a good reason–London is considered to be one of the top three most expensive cities in the world. While tuition remains the same, the actual living expenses here are significantly more than they would be at Syracuse University. [...]
Enron Proves To Be Great Steal, Leaving Audiences With A Thrill
Posted in London Life, tagged business, enron, light sabers, london, lucy prebble, meteor, musical, play, pyrotechnic, review, west end on February 22, 2010 | Leave a Comment »
Doing business has never been as exciting as it is in Lucy Prebble’s Enron. Light sabers, dinosaurs and some snazzy pyrotechnics create the edgy, contemporary feel for the show’s recounting of the events that led up to the true-life collapse of the $60 billion company. Short musical numbers allow audiences to witness the passage of [...]
Madrid Nightlife A Spectacle, Making Up For Lack of Touristy Sights
Posted in Beyond London, tagged beautiful, cable car, casa del campo, city, dali, dance, drinking, easyjet, eating, el prado, el tigre, exhausted, flight, gelateria 4d, going out, goya, kapital, madrid, metro, mountains, nightlife, palacio real, park, parque retiro, picasso, plaza mayor, reina sofia, royal palace, sangria, tapas, teatro kapital, travel on February 22, 2010 | Leave a Comment »
I felt like I was living a chapter of my high school Spanish class textbook for an entire weekend. The names of the sights stuck in my head like peanut butter to the roof of my mouth: el Parque Retiro, la Plaza Mayor and la Casa del Campo, el Museo del Prado and other words [...]
Rain, Rain Never Goes Away
Posted in Travel Advice, tagged burberry, cloudy, double, equestrian style boots, price, rain, raincoat, syracuse, totes, trench coat, uggs, uk, umbrella on February 9, 2010 | Leave a Comment »
Almost every day I’ve been here, there’s been anything from a slight drizzle to a downpour. For SU students, the cloudy skies are nothing new. I’ve worn my sunglasses about twice in two weeks. Going from massive snow storms to rain storms is a bit of a change during the second semester. For one, what [...]
Saturday Brings Peacefulness In The Park, Wild Night At The Club
Posted in London Life, tagged british, buckingham palace, cafe de paris, club, green park, hyde park, london, night out, picadilly circus, price, sun, tube on February 7, 2010 | Leave a Comment »
Although it’s sometimes hard to remember, I’m here to study abroad. That’s why I decided to act like a student, but take advantage of living in a foreign city. I headed out to Hyde Park with a friend, which has inspired many parks across the world, like Central Park. I parked myself at a bench [...]
Touring Gets A Bit Boring
Posted in London Life, tagged cafe nero, club, crown jewels, dj, hot chocolate, king, norman reuter, st. edward the confessor, su, taman gang, techno, tour, tower of london, westminster abbey on February 6, 2010 | Leave a Comment »
On Friday I was able to revisit two of my favorite sights in London: the Tower of London and Westminster Abbey. The tower has a long history of famous beheadings and imprisonments, but the real gem is the building that boasts the crown jewels. I went with so-called “SU legend” Norman Reuter, a man with [...]
Museum, Dinner and Show Leave Lasting Impressions
Posted in London Life, tagged billy elliott, british museum, coco chanel, dancing, fashions, london, music, smithsonian, stage doorp ub, stained glass, victoria and albert museum, victoria palace theatre on February 6, 2010 | Leave a Comment »
Dresses by Coco Chanel and Medieval European stained glass windows seem like they’d clash, but not in the Victoria and Albert Museum. Carefully selected displays show aspects of daily life in regions all around the world. They include clothing, furniture and art, which many museums, like the British Museum, fail to capture. The fashion display [...]
Tea Time Well Worth The Price
Posted in London Life, tagged american, british, buttery, cafe harrods, early grey, harrods, knighsbridge, london, milk, scones, splenda, sweet, tea, tea time on February 1, 2010 | Leave a Comment »
I’m not a big tea drinker, but when I think of England, I think of afternoon tea. That’s why when my friend and I were at Harrods, the gargantuan sells-almost-everything department store in Knightsbridge, we decided to stop staring at the expesnive merchandise and sit down for tea. There are few things in Harrods that [...]
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