It’s almost embarrassing that I’ve never been to a castle before, being that I am a fantasy nerd. Windsor Castle was everything I could have wanted and we were lucky to visit on a beautiful, clear spring day. Our tour guide was a gentle, theatrical man with a clear passion for English History. Occasionally he […]
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Day Seven: Liverpool
Liverpool contained the first hills I had seen in the UK. This may be a strange observation, but I noticed that every area in the UK that we’ve ventured to thus far had been relatively flat, except some small inclines in Windsor, but none too significant. We had to walk up hills for dinner, a […]
Thoughts from the Airport: Day 12
Reflection on the Past Weeks Upon arriving at the airport, we learned that our flight was going to be delayed by a few hours. After doing some shopping around, I decided to sit down with a coffee, look through my pictures, and just reflect on the past weeks. Honestly, the last thirteen days felt like […]
Day 8: Media City, Home to the BBC
Today was another professional day, we had visits with multiple personalities across the board. It was a full day of lectures and tours across Media City campus in Manchester. It seemed like this was a Manchester version of Silicon Valley. When we arrived at media city and it was a sight to behold. The campus […]
Day 10: I Can’t Get No Satisfaction – The Rolling Stones
We had another gorgeous day in Edinburgh today. We had to be ready and down in the lobby at 9:45 so that we could make our lecture at the French embassy about the Fringe Festival. Fringe is a yearly three-week arts festival that takes place in Edinburgh as well as all over the world. The […]
Day 7: Mother’s day in Liverpool
I’d like to start by saying happy Mother’s Day! Liverpool was so pretty, it reminded me a lot of Pittsburgh as it is an industrial city on the coast. We had the morning free so we naturally we had a late start to the day. We Gravitated to a brunch restaurant nearby the hotel we […]
Day Eleven: This is a gross tour, not a ghost tour
On the last full day of our international adventure, we decided to take an approach that we’ve taken with this entire trip… just go with the flow and see what happened. We had breakfast plans to visit the birthplace of Harry Potter known as The White Elephant. Before this trip I knew the bare minimum […]
Spiderman: Homecoming
Today was a sad, sad day. Today marked the end of our journey across the United Kingdom, or as I like to call it, Great Britain. We had an early meeting time for our flight, but I had to stay up until 5:00 am for the release of Tyler, The Creator’s new album, IGOR. I […]
A bittersweet ending
The last few days have required a lot of people saying how tired they are or how they can not wait to go back home. So many of my peers are homesick and connecting family or friends in their free time. Most of them want pictures of their pets. However, I do not want to […]
Last Day in Edinburgh
Free day! Jan and I set off early to head to Holyrood Palace. Alas, we found it closed to visitors because of a visiting dignitary from the Church of Scotland representing the queen. So we decided instead to tour the Scottish Parliament. The gorgeous modern building that houses the newest government in the world proved […]