Today is the first day of our 6 day holiday trip to Ireland along with good friends Mike and Leslie. Rising early, we made for Gatwick and our “low fare” (hah) airline. The only glitch was that I had purchased a bus coach pass to the airport, not the Gatwick Express train. Ryanair and I … More Celts and Welsh

Thursday this week we had our fourth excursion for my business course. The theme of the course is a takeoff from my annual seminar on the development of capitalism. Here in England I am asking the students why is it that we must conduct business today the way we do in this global marketplace? And … More Manchester: “It all began here.”

As a teacher for the last almost-quarter-century, I often wonder about – and worry about – whether I am connecting meaningfully with my students. For the teacher the class is not just a class. It is an opportunity for students to come away with new insights about the way things work, or better yet come … More Alas, Poor Yorick! I Knew Him, Mr. Barker

We started keeping track of London Pubs that we have been to way back since our first visit in 1993.  There have been many visits to London since, but my “book keeping” became scattered over the years.  Tonight I just finished gathering all my lists and now I can publish our newly combined grouping here: … More London Pubs

Zanna Beswick, our theatre professor, has kicked off the season with a variety of plays to read and productions to attend this fall. In our very first full week in the city we read and attended “The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time”. A dazzling high-tech set makes us feel how a teenager … More Wednesday Night Is Theatre Night

Sainsbury, Waitrose, Morrison, Tesco, Budgen – these are a few of the grocery stores I choose from. However, more fun than those is Primark! One of the girls in our house turned me on to shopping at this mecca. Yesterday I bought an autumn gold top (because Page liked the color) and a gray jersey … More Shopping & Gobsmacked

If it is Thursday, it is Page’s business courses “field trip” day. Yesterday 14 of us had a 2 o’clock appointment with Page’s good friend and former Chi Psi fraternity brother, Mike Calder from CA who occasionally works in London. Probably the most impressive area in London from the Bank St. tube station, we found … More “Business class” field trips

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We had a “get-away” weekend!  Leaving early Friday morning on the train to Gatwick Airport, we rented a car and off we went. Our primary purpose for this outing was to go see former Worrell House manager, Rose, who retired last November after 30+ years of serving Wake Forest. We had been to her “country … More Weekend in Sussex

Last Thursday our weekly business excursion took us to the London Museum of the Docklands, east of the city in Canary Wharf. Every great city in the world has easy access to trade and a trade route. London’s port is what distinguished the city from its earliest days and provided it a comparative advantage over … More Heart of the Empire – Then and Now