On Mardi Gras, 24 Fevrier 1998, I moved out of Jessica’s flat because Madame Françoise was hosting several guests and didn’t have room for me. I enjoyed two nights rent free, but I also looked forward to having a place of my own for the next tonight. Jessica took me to her favorite [...]
Entries from February 2008
23 February 2008
Ireland/Britain 1998 day 34: Sidetrip to Paris (day 2)
On the morning of lundi, 23 Février 1998, Jessica and I went to the nearest Metro stop where she recommended I buy a book of 10 billets to save money over the next few days. Unfortunately, the cost of the booklet was 48 FF and the smallest note I had left from the Bureau [...]
22 February 2008
Ireland/Britain 1998 day 33: London to Paris
In less than 24-hours, I saw for the first time London & Paris, Big Ben & The Eiffel Tower, and the Thames and the Seine among other things. Due to my late night tourism, I had some very full days, but in the sunny part of the morning of 22 February 1998 I [...]
21 February 2008
Ireland/Britain 1998 day 32: Bath/Cheddar/Wells/London
I pushed the boundaries of traveling on 21 February 1998 and became a 24-hour tourist.
I checked out of the Bath hostel and went to the bus station to purchase a Day Rambler pass on Badgerline. Then I checked my bags at left luggage only to learn that I’d need to be back by 5:30 [...]
20 February 2008
Ireland/Britain 1998 day 31: Bath/Salisbury/Westbury
On the sober morning of 20 February 1998, I took the train from Oxford to Bath. I’d originally planned on staying in Bath, and since by necessity I’d returned to my original plans I checked into the funky Bath International Backpackers Hostel. From Bath I took the train to Salisbury. I [...]
19 February 2008
library links for 19 February 2008
To start things off today a fun Sesame Street clip, “No Cookies in the Library” (via the new WorldCat Blog):
And now a couple of links about reading and writing:
Resources for Book Suggestions by Brian Herzog (Swiss Army Librarian, 2/14/08) - an exhaustive list.
Information Overload: The Blogger’s Worst Enemy and 8 Ways to Avoid It by [...]
19 February 2008
Ireland/Britain 1998 day 30: Oxford/Bath
I’d not intended to visit Oxford at all, but couldn’t turn down the free lodging, so I used it as my base to visit Bath and environs. That was the plan anyhow and on 19 February 1998 I took the train to Bath. Despite a late start, I had plenty of time to [...]
18 February 2008
Book Review: The Radical and the Republican by James Oakes
This year for my annual tradition of reading a book about Abraham Lincoln for Lincoln Day, I read The Radical and the Republican: Frederick Douglass, Abraham Lincoln, and the Triumph of Antislavery Politics (2006) by James Oakes. This is an excellent dual biography tracing their parrallel lives in the fight against slavery. [...]
18 February 2008
Ireland/Britain 1998 day 29: Liverpool/Oxford
I found the bloom falling off the blossom of the Embassie Hostel and the city of Liverpool on 18 February 1998. In the morning I couldn’t find a sink available to brush my teeth at, found the toaster eternally-in-use, and Argyle rambling on in an annoying fashion. So I just took off.
I visited [...]
17 February 2008
Ireland/Britain 1998 day 28: Liverpool
On only four hours of sleep, I packed in a lot of tourism in Liverpool on 17 February 1998. First I visited the two cathedrals: Liverpool Cathedral for the Church of England which is the largest in Britain, and the Catholic Metropolitan Cathedral of Christ the King, an exercise in modern architecture so audaciously [...]
