Where are you studying SuperSah? When I was in college I did a summer exchange and took courses at St. Benet's Hall Oxford. My favorite was about Britain's role in WW2 -- a refreshing change from the normal US-centric history we get here. Was really fun, class was Monday through Thursday lunch. I'd immediately bolt for the train station and travel all over the country -- all the way up to York, Vindolanda on the wall, and Edinburgh, west to Chester, Bath, and Cardiff, east to London, Dover, Hastings, and Cambridge, south to Winchester, Portsmouth, Fishbourne Roman villa. Such a wonderful country. Are you coming back after your studies or staying?
After my wife lost her first pregnancy we returned (her first time to Britain) for a couple of weeks. We stayed in bed and breakfasts in London, York, Chester, Bath, and Stirling and took full advantage of the BritRail pass. Wonderful trip and it helped immensely with the healing.
I really need to post pics from both those trips on my blog along with our travel journals. I've done it for all of our recent trips (four big ones throughout North America) but haven't gotten around to doing earlier pre-blog trips like the two Britain ones, Switzerland and France in '88, or our honeymoon to Egypt and Greece in '94.
My almost 17yo daughter really, really wants to go there on a family trip but it is just so expensive now -- $1500 a person for the flight (and there are four of us) during summer. I'm going to try hard to make it happen, though.
