Farewell, England. I miss you already.
Here are some of my favorite things about this place (i.e., what the US needs to improve on):
Instead of "yield" signs, they have "give way" signs.
Similarly, a bus is a "motor coach"; ordering your lunch to go is ordering your lunch "take away"; and if you're getting hungry, you could say you're getting quite "nibbly".
People are actually named Neville.
A "cream tea" is not tea with cream in it. It is two "scones" (really, biscuits) served with cotted cream (between cream and butter), jam, and a pot of tea. Mmmmmmmm
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To flush the toilet, you push a button in the wall instead of turning a handle.
A Computer Science major is a "comp sci" (pronounced "comp-skee") major.
In areas of the highway that often get congested, there are road signs that say "queues likely". How classy. I love it.
Now, we're in Prague, but I never finished telling you all about London, and I think we're due for a picture overload.
Thursday, we passed through Stratford-Upon-Avon and visited the home of some dead guy who didn't go to college and made gloves. His name was Shakespeare or something.
Then we moved on to London. Chamber Singers is singing a piece called "A Nightingale Sang in Berkeley Square", so of course, we felt compelled to get off the bus and sing that piece in Berkeley Square. (impromptu performances are the best kind of performances)
(*many people filmed us, so hopefully video coming soon)
We spent most of the rest of the day doing tourist-y things, like taking pictures in front of Big Ben...
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...of the tower of London...
...and England's version of The Capital...
...and St. John's Cathedral.
I thought I would really love this cathedral (I usually tend to love cathedrals--they're kind of one of my favorite things). But this one was missing something. It's absolutely gorgeous, but as we went inside, it was clear something was different from other churches. This one was being marketed as a tourist attraction--selling tickets to get in the doors and headphone-video sets for an audio tour. It also held a few pieces of modern art--not that there's anything wrong with that; it just felt out of place. Most importantly, there was no tabernacle. And then I realized the cathedral was Anglican.
After a long day of touring London, we finally did what we did best--
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And with that, it was goodbye London, and off to Prague.
More to come soon!
Until then,
Marina
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