England, November 22 - December 5, 1996
England, 11/22 - 12/15/96 - To hear new carol at King's. Arrive 11/23 - meet Fritz at airport, head to Stratford, rooms at Falcon Inn. Go to RSC for 'Much Ado', a fabulous new production; Sunday, Nov. 24 - Head out for a Blue Guide walking tour of Stratford; Shakespeare's boyhood home.
Jack gives full attention in Guild Chapel; Falcom Hotel; Guild Chapel; Resting up after the rain.
Nash House and gardens.
Monday, November 25 - We continue to explore the Shakespeare Trail; Anne Hathaway's Cottage; Mary Arden's Farm (Shakespeare's mother)
Monday PM - Tour Warwick Castle.
Monday night, wonderful new production of Henry VII at RSC.
Tuesday, November 26 - Leave Stratford and head for York. Drive through Sherwood Forest; Great Oak where Robin Hood and men met (quite impressive girth); 2 Merry Men; York; Wednesday, November 27 - Walk from B&B to City gates for 2 1/2 hour informative, bone chilling walk; Monastery, hospital walls.
York walk; Roman and monastery walls; Our guide and map; Arch. School courtyard; Monastery chapel walls; And view to our left.
York Minster.
Thursday, November 29 - Leave York and drive through Moors; After drive-bys of Castle Howard, Moors, Whitby, Scarborough, we head for another great cathedral, Lincoln. Fine B&B then to local Shakespeare, only Fritz endures entire evening.
Friday, November 29 - Leave Lincoln, drive to Saxilby to visit composer David Revill, then head through the fens, stopping in Boston (short for St. Botolph's Town); Boston tourists; Next stop: Ely with its lantern, good guided tour; Drive to Cambridge and finally find the hotel. Head to Evensong at King's and then a group dinner with Minnesota Commissioning Club.
Karen Lundholm, Penny Cleobury and Nick Nash; From the Chapel; Cow fields behind King's; it lets its cows graze, no one can build.
On with Penny to reception at Provost Bateson's House; Then a tour of King's Chapel.
The Commissioning Club; Downtown Cambridge.
It got colder and colder.
Wren Library (Trinity); We host dinner in Saltmarsh Rooms at King's; Me (eating canary), Gregory Bateson; Stephen Cleobury, Peter Crossley-Holland and Moi.
Saltmarsh Rooms hung with Bloomsbury set paintings given by John Maynard Keynes; Kevin Crossley-Holland, Patty and Steve Paulus; Sunday, December 1 - Hear a short rehearsal of piece; Then dinner in Indian restaurant (after lonnng tour of Fitzwilliam and Advent Procession).
On Monday, December 2 - We have coffee with Tim Brown at Clare College, great guy. Train to London and our apartment. Then see 'Swan Lake' with Ranheims (after Docklands tour); Tuesday, Dec. 3 - Nick Nash meets us at Harrods, then to BBC Bush House, Coulter Gallery, Dinner at Nick's, then massed bands concert where we see the Queen; Wednesday, Dec. 4 - our last day; The boys go off to tour Inns of Court; Judy and I do self-guided Dickens Walk (Southwark part of London), where he lived while father in debtor's prison; Interesting building we stumble on while looking for debtor's prison; Locals direct me (in front of Little Dorit's Church) to find Marshalsea [prison]
Oldest galleried inn in London; Another stop on Dickens Walk; Where Canterbury Pilgrims left from; Oldest operating theatre in London, in a church attic. Florence Nightingale got her start here. Poet John Keats was a surgeon here. St. Thomas Hospital.
We meet Nick at Piccadilly Circus and take a delightful walk.
St. James' Court, and Bosnian demonstrations across street.
!["Dear Jack and Linda, What great traveling companions you are: prompt, motivated, curious, knowledgeable, you helped make our little adventure a memorable one, and I appreciated all you did enormously. Best, Nick [Nash]."](https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/62e163b72ac2810ad9183578/964a9c84-924d-4397-84fd-c6ec44163b10/Scan+26.jpeg)
"Dear Jack and Linda, What great traveling companions you are: prompt, motivated, curious, knowledgeable, you helped make our little adventure a memorable one, and I appreciated all you did enormously. Best, Nick [Nash]."
Post Santa visit.