Sunday, June 8, 2008

Dieppe

These pictures are from my trip to Dieppe. I'm sure that I knew enough French to communicate, but the fear of embarrassing yourself by making a mistake seems to wipe it from your head. I think it's easier to hear French people speak than it is to hear French-speaking Canadians speak, so it wasn't too bad I guess.


Welcome to the port of Dieppe

A church on the hill overlooking the beach.


The city cathedral. I never got to see the inside.

To the memory of Canadian soldiers who died in France.

This is the other side.

Château Musée.


A bunker left from the German occupation.


It was really dark and scary inside.

Wednesday, May 28, 2008

Roman Britain trip

A really old church! I think 12th century Norman church!

I climbed this to get to the top of the keep at Portchester Castle. It's nuts!


But it was worth it... except that I found out later that there was a nicer way up!

The really old church from the top of the keep!

A broader picture of Portchester Castle from the top of the keep. The walls are from a Saxon Shore fort built by the Romans in the third or fourth century!

Here's a nice floor mosaic from Fishbourne Roman Palace. It's even older!

The garden at Fishbourne Roman Palace reconstructed from the original plan.


Brighton night life is crazy!

80s night at the pub!


Most people are dressed up and dancing to 80s tunes.

Saturday, May 17, 2008

CLST 206 trip to the British Museum

I think that this is one of the infamous Parthenon marbles that the British Museum has.

The Rosetta Stone

The wood in the cart wheel has all rotted away, but it left a ghost by changing the soil where it was. It's from a Celtic chariot when the Romans were in Britain.

Various iron age celtic things in use by the iron-age peoples when the Romans were in Britain. This gold torc was worn around the neck I think of an important person.


This stuff comes from an iron age celt's grave. That white stuff barely in the picture at the bottom are his cremated remains.


It is thought that this floor mosaic shows the earliest know representation of Christ without a beard. That's almost unheard of nowadays.


This is supposedly a very early type of guitar, but I forget just how old it is.

A star globe.


Samurai stuff. The thick metal part in the armor I found out was added because of the guns that the Portuguese brought to Japan.

Just so you know that the stuff below is Korean! No confusion!

VERY OLD stuff.

Didn't really have time to read what all of this stuff was.






Saturday, May 10, 2008

Second trip to London

Forget what they call this Byzantine style cathedral.

Tower of London


Another view


St. Paul's Cathedral across the Thames

And at nighttime

A guard

St Paul's Cathedral

The Globe Theater