We had a full and lively day yesterday, packing up and leaving Cambridge on the 10:20 train and getting in to King’s Cross Station shortly after eleven. We taxied to Yum’s house, and after a short rest took the bus down to Chinatown for a dim sum lunch. Before we even got to the restaurant, [...]
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More of London, and the ending of a journey…
Posted in Travelogue on July 20, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
Cambridge University at twilight…
Posted in Travelogue on July 18, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
It is our last night at Cambridge, and we have just returned from a 2-hour walk around the campus of Cambridge University, specifically around the grounds of Trinity and St. John’s Colleges. We had eaten dinner at home, and were becoming quite lazy but decided at around 9 p.m. that the twilight was too lovely [...]
Shakespeare, a picnic, and a downpour!
Posted in Travelogue on July 17, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
There must have been about two hundred people gathered last night, some sitting on blankets spread on the grass, others on chairs, in a little corner garden amidst the vast grounds of St. John’s College at Cambridge University. Most have brought some kind of picnic supper, complete with wine in real glasses. Holding my egg [...]
Much Ado About Nothing?
Posted in Travelogue on July 16, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
The past several days have been deliciously slow. I’ve only needed to concern myself with a few simple things daily – waking up, deciding what to do for the day, picking up some groceries for the evening’s dinner, deciding if I should have an afternoon nap, and going to sleep when I feel tired enough. [...]
The Purpose of Travel
Posted in Travelogue on July 14, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
I find myself treasuring that which stirs my imagination, moves me deeply, and opens me to enlarged vision, no matter how or in what fashion this may be done. (James Hollis, The Archetypal Imagination.)
With those words, Hollis was describing his response to art, concurring with another Jungian writer, James Hillman that when we experience art [...]
Slow Life at Cambridge
Posted in Travelogue on July 14, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
It’s been three days since we returned to Cambridge from a frenzied Paris trip. It was fabulous, but also fast and furious, and though I would have stayed longer if I could have, it just wasn’t going to work out that way. We did pack in a lot of visiting in three and a half [...]
The Best Things in Life…
Posted in Travelogue on July 12, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
When life offers you something amazing, you want to remember it. Whether it is the tender lusciousness of a first love, the smell of your newborn baby, or the immensity of a sunrise bathing the magnificent Acropolis viewed from the rooftop of an Athens hotel you want to forever etch these moments into your mind, [...]
Au Revoir, Paris!
Posted in Travelogue on July 10, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
I didn’t sleep well last night. It was our third and last night in Paris, and though I had a full day of walking and exploring Paris and was physically exhausted by the end of the day my mind was tired enough to rest for only 4 hours. I was wide awake at 4 a.m., [...]
Day 3 in Paris – picnic in a park and a stroll by a canal
Posted in Travelogue on July 9, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
It’s a delicious feeling being in an unfamiliar city – you can be whoever you choose to be. You can reinvent yourself in any manner you like. Or you can simply be present to each moment, to whatever unfolds, whatever path you happen to take. And even when you get lost, you find exactly what [...]
Boulangerie Patissere – the best damn croissants in Paris!
Posted in Travelogue on July 8, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
We did a lot today – took the Metro, walked up and down countless flights of stairs and around many neighbourhoods (dem butts are getting a great toning) and visited many famous places – the Eiffel Tower, Cathedral Notre-Dame, the Louvre, the Latin Quarter, Montmartre, the Basilique du Sacre-Coeur, Saint Severin, Place de la Concorde, [...]
