Cole Schenewerk

My overnight train arrived in Madrid a little before 7:30am, and after leaving our luggage in a locker and getting a light breakfast, my friend and I boarded another train to El Escorial, the summer residence of the Spanish kings in the mountains outside of Madrid. The mountains were silent. After months in the perpetual […]

Time for a few long-overdue blog posts. I was in Spain from November 21 to 26 and had a great six days there. The first four days of the trip were spent in Barcelona and the second two in Madrid. I was up well before dawn on Friday morning to board a train to Gatwick […]

On Tuesday, I went with a friend to the picturesque seaside town of Brighton, which is south of London. We arrived a little before the museums began opening, so we took a walk along the beach. With dramatic skies and time to kill, I was able to play photographer for a little while. I got […]

The morning after returning from Bath (see my previous post), I was on my way to the town of Salisbury. Though the cathedral there is famous for having the tallest spire in England, the primary attraction, Stonehenge, lies a 30 minute bus ride outside of town. Our train arrived in Salisbury just before 10am, but […]

This weekend, I’ve made two more trips out of London – a Saturday trip to Bath and a Sunday trip to Stonehenge. On Saturday morning, after less than two hours of sleep (not much time in bed), two friends and I caught a pre-dawn train to Bath from Paddington Station. These early trains are significantly […]

Yesterday was the Lord Mayor’s Show, which, as you might expect, is an annual celebration of the inauguration of the Lord Mayor. The Lord Mayor governs The City of London, which isn’t the same thing as London. Time for a short digression. “London” generally refers to Greater London, which is all the areas in tan […]

This post is long, long overdue. I was in Oxford on Wednesday of last week (October 29). I left my flat in London just before 5am to get breakfast and catch my 6:20 train to Oxford. I quickly learned that I didn’t need to take a train anywhere near that early. I was in Oxford […]

I’ve been extremely delinquent in posting my adventures here, so these events actually happened nearly two weeks ago. But since a few people might find them interesting, I’ll share them here. I got the chance to visit the Museum of London. They have exhibitions tracing London’s history from prehistory to the present, in addition to […]

This weekend, my study abroad program arranged a trip to the Lake District, in the north-west part of England. This is the area Wordsworth loved to call home because of its dramatic glacier-cut valleys and numerous murmuring streams. It’s truly one of the most beautiful places in England. Though the rest of the London students […]

I’ve now made two trips to the British Museum since my arrival here, and I think I’m about halfway through the exhibits. It’s a truly spectacular place. I always chuckle to myself when the card describing the object uses the phrase “came to the British Museum.” Such language seems to indicate that these statues from […]