ENGLAND

Phew! England has turned out a lot more hectic than Ireland, largely because more travelling about has been necessary.

 godzuki treated me to a lovely birthday dinner on the 20th, and I met another fur who among his other talents is a milliner. There may be hats in my future :3

On Friday I visited nearby Bletchley Park which you've probably never heard of because the thousands of people who worked there kept their mouths shut until the Official Secrets Act expired for them thirty years later. I learned a lot about the war and cryptography and heard some fascinating stories.

Saturday we drove down to London and spent most of the afternoon in the British Museum, looking at stolen objects antiquities. The British Museum, folks! Free to the world since 1753, and more amazing every year. Unlike the National Museum in Dublin, photography was allowed - so much fascinating art to record and fool around with in my sketchbook.

After that we passed by Buckingham Palace (the Queen was in), and stretched our stay to include Westminster Cathedral. I'm so glad we did - I love [http://www.furaffinity.net/view/2574917]Byzantine art[/url] and architecture, and was amazed to find an immense Byzantine-style cathedral tucked away in London. I think I'd unconsciously assumed all the churches in London were Gothic :)

Today's my last day, and at my request we drove to Wiltshire and visited Silbury Hill, West Kennet Long Barrow, and Avebury. The first two were very thought-provoking and striking, and located in a dramatic landscape; Avebury was a little harder to connect with at first - it's much too big to take in easily, but as twilight fell it seemed to wake up; I really recommend visiting it in the early evening. While we were there we saw crop circles, and had dinner in one of England's most haunted pubs.

Also, a cow in a field licked my hand :3

Tomorrow I get up at silly o'clock and catch the train to the train to Paris, where  Eustache will meet me at the station! Vive le Moose!