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A hello from the Netherlands!
Jul. 2nd, 2005 09:54 pmSo tonight's bed and breakfast place has a computer in the room with internet! Yay!
It also has a voice over IP phone, but as Patrick doesn't have an account and the equipment for it, I can't call him. (you have to pay for calls to a real phone) sigh... and I was so happy when I saw that!
It's a nice place, though, in a pretty neighborhood in Leeuwarden.
So yesterday I got to see St. Paul's and Westminster as the big items. I also wandered along the Thames from London Bridge to the Tower Bridge and across to the Tower of London. There was an amazing photography exhibition around City Hall - "The World from Above" or something like that. Really lovely photographs of amazing places - many I'd never seen or even knew about before! (glaciers near Patagonia, ravine on Reunion Island, rice fields, carpet markets...) And one picture of the Boneyard at Davis-Montham AFB in Tucson. It was strange to see a picture from home, and stranger still since they usually don't let large cameras even into the place, let alone would I think they'd let someone fly over taking pictures! But it was a pleasant way to spend 40 minutes. :)
I'd like to see the Tower of London some day, but wanted to spend more time there, especially since it's sooo expensive!
St. Paul's was lovely, though I didn't find out about the verse I was looking for - I'll have to ask Gregg about that one. Apparently Nelson's tomb is impressive, but they are doing work on it, so it's closed now. I really loved the Hunt painting off in the side chapel. :)
Westminster was... crowded - both with people and with monuments. It's amazing they even have services there anymore - a wonder that people fit there at all! It was neat to see all the famous people buried there, though I admit I was most moved by Newton's tomb and the others clustered around him, particularly the Herschels. Though where is Caroline buried?
I did stay for the Evensong service which was very pretty - and not surprisingly - quite similar to the Dominican evening prayer service, though this was FAR more pleasing to the ear than our attempts. The additional benefit of this was getting to come out of the choir doors after the service and seeing Newton's tomb close up. :)
Today I wandered around Amsterdam which I thought was very pretty and went to the Anne Frank House which was very moving. It didn't have *quite* as much "stuff" in it as, say, an "American" version of the museum would, but I think it said more in its simplicity than if the rooms had been cluttered with memoribilia. I'd wanted to see this since I'd read the book for 8th grade.
Tomorrow, it's off to the conference, so I think I will go to bed and try to catch up on sleep!
It also has a voice over IP phone, but as Patrick doesn't have an account and the equipment for it, I can't call him. (you have to pay for calls to a real phone) sigh... and I was so happy when I saw that!
It's a nice place, though, in a pretty neighborhood in Leeuwarden.
So yesterday I got to see St. Paul's and Westminster as the big items. I also wandered along the Thames from London Bridge to the Tower Bridge and across to the Tower of London. There was an amazing photography exhibition around City Hall - "The World from Above" or something like that. Really lovely photographs of amazing places - many I'd never seen or even knew about before! (glaciers near Patagonia, ravine on Reunion Island, rice fields, carpet markets...) And one picture of the Boneyard at Davis-Montham AFB in Tucson. It was strange to see a picture from home, and stranger still since they usually don't let large cameras even into the place, let alone would I think they'd let someone fly over taking pictures! But it was a pleasant way to spend 40 minutes. :)
I'd like to see the Tower of London some day, but wanted to spend more time there, especially since it's sooo expensive!
St. Paul's was lovely, though I didn't find out about the verse I was looking for - I'll have to ask Gregg about that one. Apparently Nelson's tomb is impressive, but they are doing work on it, so it's closed now. I really loved the Hunt painting off in the side chapel. :)
Westminster was... crowded - both with people and with monuments. It's amazing they even have services there anymore - a wonder that people fit there at all! It was neat to see all the famous people buried there, though I admit I was most moved by Newton's tomb and the others clustered around him, particularly the Herschels. Though where is Caroline buried?
I did stay for the Evensong service which was very pretty - and not surprisingly - quite similar to the Dominican evening prayer service, though this was FAR more pleasing to the ear than our attempts. The additional benefit of this was getting to come out of the choir doors after the service and seeing Newton's tomb close up. :)
Today I wandered around Amsterdam which I thought was very pretty and went to the Anne Frank House which was very moving. It didn't have *quite* as much "stuff" in it as, say, an "American" version of the museum would, but I think it said more in its simplicity than if the rooms had been cluttered with memoribilia. I'd wanted to see this since I'd read the book for 8th grade.
Tomorrow, it's off to the conference, so I think I will go to bed and try to catch up on sleep!
