England week 3

I've been in England 3 weeks going on 4 now and I have gotten out a couple of times. The weather is slowly warming up, but you can't count on the weather at all. warm and beautiful on Saturday and cold and blustery on Sunday and rainy again today. I went to London last week and thoroughly toured the Tower of London and "flew" the London Eye (giant ferris wheel with amazing views next to the Thames. I went by Westminster Abbey, Big Ben, Parliament and Buckingham Palace, but they wouldnt let me in to have tea with the Queen - that may prove to be harder than crashing the White House. This weekend I went to Cambridge to try and get smarter in the halls that nurtured Isaac Newton, Lord Byron and so many others. I dont know if it worked but I felt smarter. I also went to Dover to see the White Cliffs and ended the day at the Palm Sunday Evensong Service at Canterbury Cathedral. The quire was unbelievable and the idea of being in a worship sevice in the midst of the many Archbishops of Caterbury, let alone a 1400 year old Cathedral was moving. Big sigh...
yeah...on a typical note, I dont have a strong enough connection to upload pix. Maybe another day I will play catchup on the photos. Really though I am in England!

In England now

I guess all the snow in DC threw off any intent to blog. We got a lot of snow...record snow in fact and although it was fun, I did miss a week of work and was kind of limited in what I could do. I guess I could have blogged on and on, but it would have been pretty boring stuff. Anyway I finished up in DC and went home for 3 days before departing for England to RAF base Alconbury. It was cold and rainy at first, then warmed up to above freezing and then got cold again and rainy and then back to cold and windy. I'm gonna treasure the summer this year. I have been around a little bit driving on the left side of the road in the right side of my car. I never really thot much about the fact that EVERYTHING in the car is reversed as well. I have been to Huntingdon (small town near the base), Peterboro which is a nearby city and this weekend to Ely, St Ives, and Hunstanton. There are ancient castles and cathedrals at every turn. I am posting a few pics, but I have to wait to get others from my travel partner because my camera crapped out at the 1000 year old church, which has been added on to and is still functioning. It is freakin spectacular with gargoyles, hand carved stones and graves going back to very olden days. I will do more as my travels allow and plan to update this more often, partly because England is so cool! these pics are Me in St Ives, followed by the cathedral at Peterboro, and the inside of the Cathedral at Ely (Eelee).