To Float on the Wayward Wind

Stourhead The purpose of Lawrence London Centre's journey to Stourhead was to support the theatre class, of which I am a part, in seeing how theatre can play out in a garden and to generate discussion off on that basis. On top of that, though, the place is  just beautiful . It also put us in easy reach of Bath, so they rolled that in as a bonus for the program. I took the option to stay the night to give myself more time in Bath and so I could take an excursion out to Stonehenge. The gardens are intended to track the story of Aeneas, his journey, the characters he encounters, the places he visits, and to touch on Greek and Roman mythology more generally. For instance, there are recreations of monoliths and of the Pantheon, as well as a cave which might depict the descent into hell, complete with statues that can be interpreted as Hades or Charon and looking out over the lake (Styx?) on inaccessible paradise. It's quite a journey. I could see how it was theatrical and...

Dover It's taken me quite some time to get this blog post up, but I'm dedicated to cataloguing each of my excursions. This one was a whirlwind, as they all are seeming to be to date. I went to Dover Saturday morning and planned to head to Canterbury that night, stay the night in Canterbury, see Canterbury Sunday, and return late Sunday night. It was a slog, but well worth it. When I arrived in Dover I was fortunate to be able to store my luggage at a pub across the way from the one train station in Dover. I wandered for a bit until I found the center of town and a tourist information center. This was a good thing because on my way I noticed... a huge castle... that I hadn't known about at all! After receiving instructions from the tourist office I proceeded right up to the castle since they told me that was the first thing to do and it did look impressive. It was a surprisingly easy hike compared with what I would have expected given how imperiously the castle towe...