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Sunday, July 09, 2006

DUXFORD, AUDLEY END, and the TUMULI - July 3, 2006

Today we got a little U.S. history, along with a better look than I’d ever had of the British air war against Germany. A big disappointment at Audley End, and then a surprise find to (sort of) make up for it…...and here is what has been called “the perfect English village”:

otherwise known as Finching Fields. In fairness, I should tell you that the specific criteria mentioned were that it has a green, a pond with ducks, a church, and a windmill, all visible from the same spot - although not where I’m standing. Furthermore, when we mentioned this to English friends, they denied that this is really “the perfect English village”—they have their own candidates, and couldn’t agree with one another, either. So, I guess you’ll have to come over and pick your own!

UPDATED with photos…

Posted by Earl on 07/09 at 03:16 PM
2006 SUMMER TRIP - Ghana and England • England • Comments •

LONDON to SAFFRON WALDEN - July 2, 2006

On Gail’s birthday, we left and drove north….stopping to see things along the way, and finally arriving in a town that was enormously rich back in the early part of the second millennium…..

Posted by Earl on 07/09 at 03:03 PM
2006 SUMMER TRIP - Ghana and England • England • Comments •

HACKNEY and GREENWICH - June 29-July 1, 2006

Safely in London, and although we’d planned to leave earlier, we werer having such a good time we hung around for a couple of extra days - lucky Susan was such an accommodating hostess…..the Hackney Council and their parking policy wasn’t even enough to make us feel unwelcome. Soon, we’ll be headed north and east…...

Posted by Earl on 07/09 at 02:46 PM
2006 SUMMER TRIP - Ghana and England • England • Comments •

LEAVING GHANA - June 27

Leaving Ghana was almost as much of an adventure as getting there - starting with driving to the airport during Ghana’s last World Cup game

Posted by Earl on 07/09 at 02:28 PM
2006 SUMMER TRIP - Ghana and England • Ghana • Comments •

BOTANICAL GARDENS, TROPICAL FOREST and SLAVE CASTLE - June 24-25

The weekend offered our only opportunity for excursions while in Ghana—had we known that Thorvald wouldn’t be in England this summer, we might have stayed on a bit, but a week made us pretty glad to escape the humidity, so perhaps it was all for the best. In this episode, we travel to see a colonial era Botanical Garden, and then to take a “canopy walk” and tour a slave castle….a part of the world’s history that casts no one in a particularly good light. Below is one of the cannon with which they defended themselves….mostlyagainst other Europeans wanting to take over the “business”.....

Posted by Earl on 07/09 at 01:38 PM
2006 SUMMER TRIP - Ghana and England • Ghana • Comments •

LECTURES IN GHANA - June 22-23

Thursday and Friday I talked to the group and took comments and questions. We got to do some sightseeing on Sabbath and Sunday, but that will be in the next post.

Posted by Earl on 07/09 at 01:34 PM
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GETTING TO GHANA - June 19-20

This summer I got invited to do some lectures for the SDA GC Education Department at a conference in Accra, Ghana. A group of about 20 profs from Africa, Asia and the U.S. were working on papers around the subject of the integration of faith and science in religious universities. I gave three talks (even used PowerPoint to illustrate them) on the subject from my discipline. When we finished at Valley View University, Ghana, we returned to England, and have been spending about three weeks in Anglia and the SE, driving a rental car and staying mainly in Youth Hostels. I’ll post what I’ve been calling my “trip logs” here, including photographs as I have the chance.

Posted by Earl on 07/09 at 01:14 PM
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