Ahh!

Oh lordy, I have been bad at updating this blog. Two weekends ago we went to Oxford, and last week we went to Bruges and Ghent to eat a lot of waffles (which are truly divine creations) and frites and chocolate and see the Ghent Altarpiece and some really funny paintings by Memling (and a Bosch!). Belgium was a really great change from London, and Bruges was probably one of the most serene, fairylandish towns I've been to (Ghent seems more like people could actually live there). We did nearly go to a bar called Retsin's Lucifernum, but given the name and the location on a sketchy (or sketchy for Bruges, which is Not Sketchy) street, we got scared and got beers elsewhere. Next time!

My flickr page is probably a better indication of what I've been doing than this is for these two trips, alas.

Tomorrow we go to Stratford for quite a lot of Shakespeare. What else! Today I bought a coffee mug for my favorite Underground line. The whole set is pretty cool, although the Hammersmith & City line mug probably looks like something of a dirty joke to the uninformed.

It's somehow already phase one midterms week here. I'm not sure where the time went.