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Tuesday, July 7, 2015

Tube Strike

Ordinarily the news that the London Tube is going to have a strike from 6:30 Wednesday night to 6:30 Thursday night would not be alarming.

However.

We're arriving in London around 10:30 on Thursday morning, and of course they're having a strike that day. We're Becketts. This stuff happens to us. We should be used to it by now, but we aren't.

Yes, we're going to England. We're even - overambitious, never-learning souls that we are - going to Scotland. It's a graduation trip/birthday trip/everything-for-the-rest-of-our-lives trip. My sister is most excited about Scotland. My mom is, as she says, "along for the ride." I'm most excited about England, seeing as how most books I've read (and movies I've seen) take place there or are simply English to their very core.



We'll wander through Westminster Abbey and see William Wilberforce's grave. We'll doff our caps to John Knox in Edinburgh, just like the real Eric Liddell probably did not. We will sleep in an old inn in Cropredy, miles - if that - from a famous battle of the English Civil War. We'll be unimpressed by the famous waters of Bath. We'll breathe history.

 I can't wait.

3 comments:

  1. I cannot wait to hear more! Love Aunt Lee

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  2. I cannot wait to hear more! Love Aunt Lee

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  3. Trust you are able to get where you need to go over there. Sounds like an amazing trip that you have planned. Looking forward to hearing about it! Those strikes are something else over there--our last flight out of London the caterers were on strike so no food on the plane. Have a wonderful trip. We love you and miss you!

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