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| Photo by Tim Street |
| Big Ben and the Houses of Parliament on a soggy London afternoon. |
The rain and wind came to London today, but apart from a few wet heads and inside-out umbrellas, it didn’t cause us any real trouble. The sun even came out a few times during the day.
In fact, it was because of the wind that our first event of the day was delayed by a half hour. John Burns, London bureau chief for the New York Times, couldn’t catch a train into London because of the inclement weather. He ended up driving to London just to meet with us, which we really appreciated. The students really enjoyed what he had to say, but I’ll leave it to them to talk about it in the blog.
Other events during the day included a trip to St. Paul’s Cathedral, where we visited the crypt and climbed up into the whispering gallery, and an afternoon trip to the Cabinet War Rooms and Churchill Museum.
In the morning, we’ll board a charter bus (or "coach," as the Brits call it) to Dover, where we’ll ferry across to Calais and then hop aboard another bus to take us to our hotel in Caen. We should arrive at our hotel in Caen around 7 p.m. CET (Central Europe Time).
As a note, the UK is currently 4 hours ahead of Eastern Daylight Time, and France is 5 hours ahead.
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