This is my last post about England, I promise (until I go back! I can’t help myself, I loved it there). The day before I left we headed back into London to go to the opening day of Wallace & Gromit’s World of Cracking Ideas Exhibition. Wow! Opening day of a Wallace and Gromit exhibit! […]
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UKUUG Spring 2009 Conference
April 4th, 2009 by pleia2
On the 25th and 26th of March I attended the UKUUG Spring 2009 Conference. The first day I was a bit apprehensive, because of public transportation. Getting from Liverpool Street station to Great Portland Street on the tube turned out to be easy, and the conference really was right across the street from the station. […]
Another day in London and other things
April 3rd, 2009 by pleia2
On Thursday the 19th we headed down to London again for a day of walking around the city. The first stop was the Tower of London and Tower Bridge. Just prior to getting there we wandered past an ice cream truck and snagged a couple of 99 Flakes (ice cream on a cone w/ a […]
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Visiting Stonehenge
April 2nd, 2009 by pleia2
On March 18th made the 1.5ish hour drove down to Stonehenge. We went on a Wednesday and it was still pretty busy (apparently weekends are really busy!). Even so, I was able to get a lot of photos of the stones that were relatively people-free. We arrived and parked in the available parking lot. There […]
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Arrival in England and first day in London
March 31st, 2009 by pleia2
I took a flight out of Philadelphia on the night of Saturday the 14th and arrived at Heathrow on Sunday morning. I tried to sleep on the plane, but a crying baby for most of the flight made that tricky. In spite of that, the flight was quite pleasant, I’ll certainly go with British Airways […]
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Having a blast in England!
March 21st, 2009 by pleia2
I arrived in England last Sunday morning. The week has been full of sight-seeing, relaxing (first week-long vacation for me in over 2 years!) and partaking in delicious English treats (fish ‘n chips, pie & mash, pub ale, Cadbury chocolates!). I can’t believe almost a week has gone by already. Houses of Parliament, seen from […]
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Extending London trip for UKUUG Spring Conference!
February 16th, 2009 by pleia2
As I’ve mentioned, earlier this year I decided to skip over to London for a week. After sorting out my plans to visit from March 14-22 I learned about the UKUUG Spring Conference from March 24-26, and perhaps more importantly, I learned about the conference bursaries. I put off ordering my plane tickets and checked […]
Going International!
January 24th, 2009 by pleia2
Every year the world seems smaller to me. Since I got online in ’98 I’ve had friends all over the world, but I think I’ve just gotten more involved with people worldwide, become more conscious of conferences I want to attend, things happening that I’d like to see and getting to know more people I’d […]
Merry Christmas! And Good Things :)
December 24th, 2008 by pleia2
It’s Christmas Eve! This evening I’m snuggled up on my couch with some hot chocolate, cookies and a couple kitties watching Hogfather. Splendid. Tomorrow Baerana invited me over to her place to spend the Christmas afternoon with her, b2s and a couple of their friends. It’s so nice to have friends to spend Christmas with. […]
The rest of my stay in Florida
December 16th, 2008 by pleia2
Since I wasn’t flying out until Thursday evening, I had a few days to spend with family, which was nice. My mother flew back to Maine Wednesday morning, and that same day my some of my relatives took my grandfather out looking at dogs. He had decided that he’d start looking, and stopped at a […]