The atmosphere was awesome.
This is the room The Inklings met in, from what I understand. The lighting didn't agree with my camera though.
One half of the table. I don't think I'm gonna list peoples names out anymore.
Jacob on the end with his authentic Eagle and Child ale. It's magic.
The other half of the table.
So then I couldn't really decide what I wanted to eat, and I decided to take a chance. For anyone that doesn't know, I'm allergic to fish. So I've been pretty disappointed that I wasn't going to get to have that British staple fish and chips. But I decided that if any time was the time to risk it, it would be at the Eagle and Child. I also had a sneaking suspicion that the fish and chips would be made out of pure magic there, and I'm not allergic to pure magic. So I went with it:
First few bites:
So far so good.
I made it! I didn't feel any allergic reaction at all...it really was made out of pure magic!
I was pretty happy I got magic fish.
On the way back we saw that our porter's lodge had an American flag up for the 4th, so that was nice.
Later we went to Po Na Na with Ralph and Lecky. They played Franz Ferdinand's Take Me Out (the song that changed my life, in case you didn't know) and I rocked my face off. That was pretty much it for the 4th.
Yesterday, we went on our first excursion. We went with Dr. Brice for our Romantic Literature class to Tintern Abbey in Wales. Tintern Abbey was the inspiration for William Wordsworth's famous poem:
http://www.poetry-online.org/wordsworth_tintern_abbey.htm
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tintern_Abbey_%28poem%29
It's a pretty amazing poem if you take the time to sit down and really let it sink in. I've had to read it 3 or 4 times already to get my head around it, but it's pretty mind blowing (which makes sense considering how mind blowing the Abbey is itself.)
But yea, we had to take a bus into Wales, and here's some random castle I saw on the way there.
But here's the real deal as we're coming down into the valley on the bus:
Then we got out and walked around for a couple of hours. You can see some scaffolding where they are doing some restorative work, which ruins the atmosphere in some parts, but that's only on like one side of one tower, so it's alright.
It's just so huge, and every part ends up looking different from every angle, and it's just so hard to capture all there really is there. So just ended up taking a ton of pictures.
They had this weird drainage ditch all around all the grassy areas.
Going inside the Abbey itself was my favorite part. It's so weird because going inside a building, it's so huge and open. It's like going inside and yet you become more outside than when you were outside.
This tree is like dedicated to King George I think.
And this is the river that runs right down beside the Abbey through the valley.
Then we had lunch at some Welsh restaurant/inn thing that's like right there. That was all paid for by the program costs, so I got a steak. It was kinda different, but really good, especially since I haven't had a steak since I've been here.
After lunch we went out and like hopped a fence and pretty much were trespassing on this farm that's behind the Abbey, and we climbed halfway up this hill/mountain thing to look out like Wordsworth did. So we got a pretty good view and from there and basically had class up there with Dr. Brice. It was pretty cool.
So that's about it for today. Off to a barbeque for dinner now.
This is the room The Inklings met in, from what I understand. The lighting didn't agree with my camera though.
One half of the table. I don't think I'm gonna list peoples names out anymore.
Jacob on the end with his authentic Eagle and Child ale. It's magic.
The other half of the table.
So then I couldn't really decide what I wanted to eat, and I decided to take a chance. For anyone that doesn't know, I'm allergic to fish. So I've been pretty disappointed that I wasn't going to get to have that British staple fish and chips. But I decided that if any time was the time to risk it, it would be at the Eagle and Child. I also had a sneaking suspicion that the fish and chips would be made out of pure magic there, and I'm not allergic to pure magic. So I went with it:
First few bites:
So far so good.
I made it! I didn't feel any allergic reaction at all...it really was made out of pure magic!
I was pretty happy I got magic fish.
On the way back we saw that our porter's lodge had an American flag up for the 4th, so that was nice.
Later we went to Po Na Na with Ralph and Lecky. They played Franz Ferdinand's Take Me Out (the song that changed my life, in case you didn't know) and I rocked my face off. That was pretty much it for the 4th.Yesterday, we went on our first excursion. We went with Dr. Brice for our Romantic Literature class to Tintern Abbey in Wales. Tintern Abbey was the inspiration for William Wordsworth's famous poem:
http://www.poetry-online.org/wordsworth_tintern_abbey.htm
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tintern_Abbey_%28poem%29
It's a pretty amazing poem if you take the time to sit down and really let it sink in. I've had to read it 3 or 4 times already to get my head around it, but it's pretty mind blowing (which makes sense considering how mind blowing the Abbey is itself.)
But yea, we had to take a bus into Wales, and here's some random castle I saw on the way there.
But here's the real deal as we're coming down into the valley on the bus:
Then we got out and walked around for a couple of hours. You can see some scaffolding where they are doing some restorative work, which ruins the atmosphere in some parts, but that's only on like one side of one tower, so it's alright.
It's just so huge, and every part ends up looking different from every angle, and it's just so hard to capture all there really is there. So just ended up taking a ton of pictures.
They had this weird drainage ditch all around all the grassy areas.
Going inside the Abbey itself was my favorite part. It's so weird because going inside a building, it's so huge and open. It's like going inside and yet you become more outside than when you were outside.
This tree is like dedicated to King George I think.
And this is the river that runs right down beside the Abbey through the valley.
Then we had lunch at some Welsh restaurant/inn thing that's like right there. That was all paid for by the program costs, so I got a steak. It was kinda different, but really good, especially since I haven't had a steak since I've been here.
After lunch we went out and like hopped a fence and pretty much were trespassing on this farm that's behind the Abbey, and we climbed halfway up this hill/mountain thing to look out like Wordsworth did. So we got a pretty good view and from there and basically had class up there with Dr. Brice. It was pretty cool.
So that's about it for today. Off to a barbeque for dinner now.
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