http://blog.goshen.edu/london An experience and study of theater, art and music in London, England Sun, 24 May 2009 02:00:41 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en [gallery link="file" columns="5" orderby="post_name"] Tuesday marked our second trip outside the constant rumble of central London.  This time our destinations were Avebury and Salisbury, about 2 hours due west of London. Avebury boasts one of the largest henges in England... think Stonehenge, but about 4 times the size (according to Wikipedia), older, ... http://blog.goshen.edu/london/2009/05/14/another-day-in-the-country/ This week marks our last full week in London. ::cue tears here:: But the good thing is, this is the time when each of us spend the majority of our free time working on independant projects that can only be done in London. Mine is on the wonderful British ... http://blog.goshen.edu/london/2009/05/11/peter-grimes-and-more/ During Shakespeare's day people out on the city with acute artistic hunger had many genres and venues to choose. Some would see a comedy or tragedy at the Globe, others would go to the Rose theatre, and still others would wave their hands at impeccable plays and instead watch bear ... http://blog.goshen.edu/london/2009/05/09/romeo-and-juliet-at-the-globe/ [gallery link="file" columns="5" orderby="post_name"] Its been a little too long since the last posting.  Sadly, (well, not sadly at all actually) we're off shortly to hear the London Symphony Orchestra so I'll have to keep this brief. I occasionally wonder... If there was a way to plot on a map all of ... http://blog.goshen.edu/london/2009/05/09/finally-an-update/ [gallery link="file" columns="5" orderby="post_name"] Last Wednesday we went to Coventry Cathedral and Stratford-upon-Avon on our very first day-trip.  It was wonderful to get out into the countryside after a week of busy London. Those who managed to stay awake during the early morning coach ride were treated to glorious views of ... http://blog.goshen.edu/london/2009/05/08/coventry-cathedral-and-stratford/ [gallery link="file" columns="5"] This morning our group of transient Goshenites  traveled en masse to  Westminster Abbey. Following music and ceremony beneath the spectacular vaulted arches of the Cathedral, I made my way to the poets corner. Chaucer is buried in Westminster. I found his grave, along with the graves of poets like ... http://blog.goshen.edu/london/2009/05/03/dancing-on-chaucers-grave/ Today was the first official class session for us Arts in Londoners (which means climbing 4 flights of stairs, sitting in a hot room for a couple of hours trying to hear the lecture over the traffic noise, and taking an 'interval' for some delicious British 'digestives').  The lecture was ... http://blog.goshen.edu/london/2009/05/02/the-learning-begins/ [gallery link="file" order="DESC" columns="5" orderby="post_name"] 13.5 hours of sleep does a body real good!  So does a large english breakfast, which consists of bacon, egg, a stange (but good) sausage, beans, cooked tomato, toast, and tea or coffee.  After that amazing start to the day, we got to work burnning off ... http://blog.goshen.edu/london/2009/05/01/a-little-more-sleep/ That's exactly what it felt like yesterday. After arriving in London at 7 a.m. (2 a.m. our time) we proceded to our hotel around 10 a.m. Upon unpacking and getting situated, we then left for a five hour walk around the our area of the city where we will be ... http://blog.goshen.edu/london/2009/05/01/sleep-walking-in-london/ [gallery link="file" columns="5"] We left Goshen around 12:30 this afternoon, following the epic release of the Spain Morocco group and the German SSTers. While these folks journey out to investigate foreign countries with difficult languages, like German, we limited our adventures to a country that speaks, merely, English. Our group, having studied English ... http://blog.goshen.edu/london/2009/04/29/from-goshen-to-the-chicago-airport/