Happy Pancake Day! Yes this truly is celebrated here! Today I watched people in the main street have pancake races! It was televised, had an announcer, and a huge crowd whooping and hollering cheering on people running and flipping pancakes! It was awesome to say the least! Let's back it up a bit to cover the last few weekends. We went to our first rugby match here to support the London Irish! It was so much fun. We met for breakfast with a group of fri...

We took our first trip out of the country to Parco Nazionale delle Cinque Terre, Italy. This is a national park on the west coast of Italy, just north of Pisa. This area is made up of five towns along the coast, which all have hiking trails from one to the next. Saturday morning we woke up knowing that it was going to be difficult traveling to London Stansted Airport due to all of the flooding. We did not realize, until waiting in the train station for over ...

We have been slacking a bit, so we are going to fill you in on our past weeks. A couple of weeks back we went to London for our second visit. It was a shorter visit, due to extreme wind, but we still had a blast. We toured the London Dungeons, which is actually a theatrical, interactive experience that explains the history and pop culture of London. It was actually quite impressive. For a portion of the tour we rode on small boats through dark underground t...

First of all, happy valentine's day! We just wanted to let you all know that we are still alive and we are sorry we have not posted anything in a while. We will be better about this! We will have a lot of new stuff to share come Wednesday because we are heading to Italy tomorrow for a few days! We are planning on hiking between several villages in the national park called Cinque Terre. We have been having really cruddy weather here in Reading, and as most of you...

This weekend we made the westward trek by train to Bath, England. Though weather threatened our journey, the day was a success. We started out walking through Green Park and Queen Square to arrive at our destination: The Circus. The Circus is a group of homes that encompass a roundabout. Their architecture was phenomenal, as all of the homes were perfectly rounded (see pictures… kind of hard to explain). Many famous people at one time lived in the homes ...