July 2007 ~ Travel In Home

A Sunday Drive

Sunday evening we drove over to our new favorite cinema to see The Simpsons Movie, which has gotten astonishingly good reviews. But the parking lot was absolutely packed and we knew the theater would be too, so we turned around and went home.But it was such a beautiful evening, and you know from my whining that that has been a rarity[...]

by Jour ~ Monday, July 30, 2007 0 comments

Cornwall: Old Stones, Fish & Chips and a Castle

Sunday morning we had a decent breakfast in our Exeter B&B, where we sat next to a 60s-ish couple and their granddaughter. They were very chatty and immediately asked where we were from upon hearing our accents. They are from Dallas and their kids live in England; their cute little granddaughter had an English accent. Immediately[...]

by Jour ~ Saturday, July 28, 2007 0 comments

Halal Food Hilal Town in South Thailand(27-31 July 2007)

Starting in the first year of 2005, the festival was seen as a massive success and saw a big crowd of Muslim population on the island itself and even the nearby provinces like Phang-Nga and Phuket. They had a good time getting together and showed off their charm and hositality.The second[...]

by Jour ~ Thursday, July 26, 2007 0 comments

Exeter

David took Monday and Tuesday off and we had a nice four-day weekend in the "West Country." We spent Saturday night in Exeter and then Sunday and Monday in Penzance (yep, of Pirates fame) near the western tip of Cornwall. It was a three-hour drive from home to Exeter, which is in the county of Devon. Like Cornwall, Devon is known[...]

by Jour ~ Thursday, July 26, 2007 0 comments

Cuddesdon

Saturday afternoon we walked up the hill to the village of Cuddesdon. Its church was great and the village was lovely, too. Here's a few pics.Some heavy traffic on the way up the hill.Road signs in Cuddesdon.Gate to Cuddesdon Church. Cuddesdon Parish Church, which is good and old - founded 1180.12th-century carved capitals - note[...]

by Jour ~ Tuesday, July 17, 2007 0 comments

Ranganathittu Bird Sanctuary

Frayed nerves and a tired mind came along with my incentive last quarter .Not to mention , an irritable mood with low tolerance and a nagging migrane that just refused to go away. A quick remedy was a short weekend getaway and so, it was a day trip to Rangantittu Bird Sanctuary , near[...]

by Jour ~ Sunday, July 15, 2007 0 comments

Village People

On Saturday afternoon, after completing the morning errands into Oxford and watching the Formula One qualifying race (which is in Britain this weekend!), we went for a walk around our new hometown of Great Milton. We had a wonderful time.A road sign just outside Great Milton (also seen at the top). A road into the village. It looks[...]

by Jour ~ Wednesday, July 11, 2007 0 comments

The Oxford era comes to an end.

I'm pleased to be able to report that I passed my exams and will actually receive an MPhil degree!! Hooray!!! (For background, I was studying Early Christian and Greco-Roman religious history, I took exams on June 14-15, defended my dissertation on June 29, and June 27-30 we moved from Oxford out to the nearby village of Great Milton.)We[...]

by Jour ~ Saturday, July 7, 2007 0 comments